The Empire.

firefighter753 said:
I think this is it.
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Correct firefighter, however, the entrance has been knocked down.

Great nights up there, but in retrospect, was a little grotty. Had to go up to the balcony to snog your latest ...itchy seats ... had a mirror in the corridor which a certain 'beau' used to attend regularly to comb his quiff into place .. :D
 
Oooh thanks for the photo. Went to look for it today but sort of got a bit lost. Is it just an alleyway you can only walk down?
 
I shall try to persuade Busman to do a little detour tomorrow - but as we'll have an elderly lady in the car with us he might have a good excuse for coming straight home.
 
garinda said:
On the gable end you can clearly see a bricked up gothic arched window, which made me think it might have originally been connected with a church, but I'm really just guessing on that one.
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ummm you could have a point there garinda...would be interesting to know ...
 
It was the Empire cinema when I was young and I went there fairly often. It was a bit lower down the pecking order than the Palladium but higher than the Queens Hall, which later became the Tudor. All three were better than the Ritz in Accy, known locally as the Bug Hut. :p
 
you learn something new every day i thought it was the palladeum which like the queens then became a bingo hall aroma lady
 
The Palladium did become a bingo hall too.

We actually found the Empire next time we went past- not exactly easy to miss is it, it's not as if it's a long way down that alley. I'm amazed we missed it the first time! :D
 
Had some very good nights up there many years ago also some good old scraps between church and ossy lads. we,ll never see the likes of places
like that again:Banane25:
 
garinda said:
On the gable end you can clearly see a bricked up gothic arched window, which made me think it might have originally been connected with a church, but I'm really just guessing on that one.
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:) Sorry to be late (!), but I think that the building was originally the New Jerusalem Temple and was built in about 1842. A great grandfather of mine got married there in 1868. And, yes, I too sometimes went to the Empire Dance Hall - around late 1959/early 1960.
 
davidf said:
:) Sorry to be late (!), but I think that the building was originally the New Jerusalem Temple and was built in about 1842. A great grandfather of mine got married there in 1868. And, yes, I too sometimes went to the Empire Dance Hall - around late 1959/early 1960.
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You are really late Garinda left this site some months ago, don't thnk he will be back in the near future.
 
thats the empire sorted, who remembers the one opposite the shopfitters, was it the palace, thats gone altogether now,and new buildings in place, went past at the weekend but didnt take much notice on what the new buildings was,
 
janloot said:
thats the empire sorted, who remembers the one opposite the shopfitters, was it the palace, thats gone altogether now,and new buildings in place, went past at the weekend but didnt take much notice on what the new buildings was,
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My parents, my brother and myself had regular seats booked at the Palace every Sat night 1st house, front row centre of balcony.

New houses now on the site -
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Os...d=ZcF37ERJNztDBaKfkyzGRg&cbp=12,49.04,,0,6.07
 
MargaretR said:
My parents, my brother and myself had regular seats booked at the Palace every Sat night 1st house, front row centre of balcony.

New houses now on the site -
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Os...d=ZcF37ERJNztDBaKfkyzGRg&cbp=12,49.04,,0,6.07
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Those were the days when you booked the same seats every week. I used to go to the Palladium with my grandma, I was about 6 or 7 at the time, in those days (unless it was a real headliner film)the films changed 3 times every week Monday Wednesday and Friday, we used to go to the first house 3 times a week and sat in the same seats every time, if there was a big film on we booked the seats in advance, the god old days
 
i remember the palladium well, usually saturday afternoons, and a western, and running all the way home slapping my bum pretending i was on a horse, ha,ha,but the palace was nearer as we lived on roegreave road then,my doctor was on the same road rhyddings street,dr.millar,
 
janloot said:
i remember the palladium well, usually saturday afternoons, and a western, and running all the way home slapping my bum pretending i was on a horse, ha,ha,but the palace was nearer as we lived on roegreave road then,my doctor was on the same road rhyddings street,dr.millar,
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good old Cecil was quite friendly with his daughter
 
The Palace in Rhyddings Street was used as St. Paul's Church Hall for a number of years after it closed as a cinema. The four houses now on the site were built about the mid-80s. I remember Dr. Millar's surgery very well. He never spent much on the decor. The same wallpaper was on for about 30 years, also the orange plastic chairs were there for ages. There were no appointments then. Surgery was morning and evening. There was no receptionist. You sat in the waiting room till he buzzed. If the waiting room was full you stood in the corridor. If the corridor was full you stood on the path outside. Everybody always got seen, though not necessarily for long! Dr. Millar and family used to live in the house next door. Then in the late 50s they had a new house built on Dene Bank Road near the park and he turned his old house into a nursing home.
 
I went there in my teens on a Sunday evening, it finished at 9.30. If you did not own a watch you knew it was approaching 9.30 as the last record played was always...Michael
Haliday singing 'Some Day I'm Gonna Write the Story of My Life' we were on a cruise a while ago and this was played and I was transported back to the tiny dance floor of my youth ...Happy Days.
 
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