Old Manchester cinemas

[Big Swifty]

I remember the Regal, Levenshulme, a huge luxurious Art Deco building on Stockport rd. It was the las M/cr cinema built pre-war. Two full-length films, an organist, heaven knows what else. Plus the Forum, Wythenshawe (is it a hotel now?). I went to school in Burnage & went often to a big cinema there called the Lido. The Apollo in Ardwick was another posh cinema. The Odeon on Oxford St was then called the Paramount. There was a Rialto, Higher Broughton. There was a bis (then modern) one down Parrs Wood Rd that became the ATV television studios, but I forget its name.

I wish I could find a definitive list or a cinema page from an old Evening News or Chronicle.

 

[Bluebee2]

The New Royal in Beswick right over the road from where our stadium is now.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I'm on my phone so can't post it now but there is a website of ye Olde cinemas in Manchester.
There was the ABC opposite the City Chippy on Claremont Road.
The Apollo started out a a cinema.
Also on Kenyon Lane in Moston, Deanway DIY is in the former cinema and is great to go in and have a look around not for DIY stuff but for the nostalgia!

 

[mancityvstoke]

The Apollo...major and minor

 

[RadcliffeRick]

The Mayfair in Whitefield was the first place i was taken to. Saturday matinees were always packed. Well i remember them being packed probably not really but when you are small everything seems 4 times as big.

 

[squirtyflower]

The Palace, Levenshulme. Anything but!

That ths one I always went to as a kid

Followed by cine-city in Withington as a twenty something

 

[west didsblue]

I'm on my phone so can't post it now but there is a website of ye Olde cinemas in Manchester.
There was the ABC opposite the City Chippy on Claremont Road.
The Apollo started out a a cinema.
Also on Kenyon Lane in Moston, Deanway DIY is in the former cinema and is great to go in and have a look around not for DIY stuff but for the nostalgia!

Was in there the other day for a drill bit. Not many hardware shops like that anywhere else.

 

[tmouseman]

Don Cinema Theatre in Ancoats Manchester now the metro stop called holt town

Wow.... I remember playing in this Cinema when I was a kid. It was derelict but not knocked down.
Got into the tower and threw stones at things below. Circa 1973. All the seats still in and I even think there was still a projector still in.

 

[pride in battle]

The Mayfair in Whitefield was the first place i was taken to. Saturday matinees were always packed. Well i remember them being packed probably not really but when you are small everything seems 4 times as big.

Yep my local, I actually went to the last ever film shown, can't remember what it was though?

 

[RadcliffeRick]

That was after they changed it to two screens. The beer in the bar was hanging. Changed into a kids ball pool place after closing

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/2750