Leeds lost cinemas

Si · Post by Si » Thu 07 May, 2009 1:55 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Si wrote: We've got a Sony Trinitron 14"ish colour telly, circa 1973, and it still works perfectly. It has a wooden (teak?) outer casing, and to switch on, there's a pull-out knob. To change stations, you turn a tuning wheel. Wonderful durability Si - does it use a lot of coal, or is it reasonably economical ?? No, it doesn't use any coal, but the donkey's knackered by the Ten O'Clock news!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 08 May, 2009 12:31 am

Bert · Post by **Bert** » Wed 13 May, 2009 11:18 am

Anybody remember the Parkfield Picture Palace at the junction of Jack Lane and Parkfield Street in Hunslet? It closed down back in the 1940s but the building survived at least until the 1960s as a factory. Not sure if it's survived all the latest re-development in the area. I was too young when I lived in Parkfield Street to remember it now, though I'm told I was taken there as a kid, and an older brother recalls watching World War 2 newsreels there; Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars; an early terror series called 'the claymen', and Deadwood Dick . The front seats, he says, were backless benches at three old pence for kids, and the back seats proper upholsted ones at five pence.

Middleton Sheriff · Post by **Middleton Sheriff** » Wed 13 May, 2009 4:18 pm

First time on this site and haven't read all of this thread so excuse me if it's already been covered but...I remember premises behind the Corn Exchange which in the late sixties/early seventies was Hirst's tobacco wharehouse. This, I was told, was a cinema between the wars.

Si · Post by Si » Wed 13 May, 2009 5:15 pm

Middleton Sheriff wrote: First time on this site and haven't read all of this thread so excuse me if it's already been covered but...I remember premises behind the Corn Exchange which in the late sixties/early seventies was Hirst's tobacco wharehouse. This, I was told, was a cinema between the wars. This building (called Waterloo House and formerly the Assembly Rooms) has been extensively covered on here, particularly on the famed Skulls Head Yard thread. I didn't know it had been a cinema, though. Thanks for that bit of extra information. Anything, however small, which is related to that thread is very welcome indeed!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 13 May, 2009 11:36 pm

Middleton Sheriff wrote: First time on this site and haven't read all of this thread so excuse me if it's already been covered but...I remember premises behind the Corn Exchange which in the late sixties/early seventies was Hirst's tobacco wharehouse. This, I was told, was a cinema between the wars. No, sorry, but you were told incorrectly!

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Thu 14 May, 2009 12:03 am

Bert wrote: Anybody remember the Parkfield Picture Palace at the junction of Jack Lane and Parkfield Street in Hunslet? It closed down back in the 1940s but the building survived at least until the 1960s as a factory. Not sure if it's survived all the latest re-development in the area. I was too young when I lived in Parkfield Street to remember it now, though I'm told I was taken there as a kid, and an older brother recalls watching World War 2 newsreels there; Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars; an early terror series called 'the claymen', and Deadwood Dick . The front seats, he says, were backless benches at three old pence for kids, and the back seats proper upholsted ones at five pence. You're uncertainty about the fate of the Parkfield can be resolved by looking at page 6, half way down, of this very thread, Bert!!! (Nothing has changed since I posted the photo almost 2 years ago,incidentally)

Post by **chameleon** » Sat 16 May, 2009 1:15 pm

Well I never new this -'The Odeon cinema chains are named after their British founder Oscar Deutsch, and the acronym stands for Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation.'

Arry Awk · Post by **Arry Awk** » Sat 16 May, 2009 5:42 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Just in passing, I THINK that the Ecko brand name was derived from the name of the manufacturer - E.C.Kole. Other wonderful names from the past :-KB - Kolster Brandes.Murphy.Ferguson ("Fine sets these Fergusons")Cossor.PyePhilips and many many more.The Cottage Road is a great little cinema, as is the Hyde Park Picture House.I went last year (on the recommendation of my Belgian friends) to Cottage Road to see "IN BRUGES." A very violent film full of excessively obscene language - but a gripping thriller story and magnificently filmed in lovely Bruges. I'd go again tomorrow if it returned. Nearly right,Blakey! Ekco is derived from EK Cole Ltd whosefactory was in Essex (I think).They made light bulbs too.and you missed out ULTRA from the old radios list. We had onefrom 1934 right thru the war (The '39-45 war,before you ask!).I can still remember radio Luxemburg 'Fading out' right at the crucial moment of summat interesting! Funny thing,it NEVERfaded during the adverts! Happy days!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 16 May, 2009 6:10 pm

[quotenick="'Arry 'Awk"Nearly right,Blakey! Ekco is derived from EK Cole Ltd whosefactory was in Essex (I think).They made light bulbs too.and you missed out ULTRA from the old radios list. We had onefrom 1934 right thru the war (The '39-45 war,before you ask!).I can still remember radio Luxemburg 'Fading out' right at the crucial moment of summat interesting! Funny thing,it NEVERfaded during the adverts! Happy days!We had a Philips radio, and when I was a kid we used to listen to Luxemburg. In those days it wasn't just a music station but used to have light entertainment - including Michael Miles "Take Your Pick" sponsored by Kraft.When I got a little older I had a small picnic basket type radio (still valves though) and used to listen to Lux late at night in bed The Top Twenty on Sunday nights and Jimmy Saville's "Teen and Twenty Disc Club"