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Memories are made of this… Project overview
The aim of the Going to the Pictures Project has been to help preserve a part of our local cinema heritage by collecting and recording memories from people who used and worked in the local picture houses from the 1930′s to the 1960′s.
Cinema Heritage Interactive Map
Explore this map of 21 local cinemas within a 3 mile radius of the Plaza, from 1930 to 1960.
Filming memories with Crosby High School
Through the project we have been filming cinema memories, some of these can be seen as small clips on the website and the whole interviews have been put into the North West Sound Archive
The Coliseum / Essoldo Cinema Linacre Road Litherland
Opening in the roaring 20′s The Coliseum was a large 1400 seat cinema which had balcony and cafe lounge upstairs for cinema goers to socialise and wait for the silent film screenings to begin
Seeing ‘Oliver’ at the Plaza
My first memory of the pictures is coming to the Plaza to see ‘Oliver’.
The Hollywood Influence on British Cinema Goers
Through the memories of cinema going we have recorded for the project, many people have commented on the growing influence America had upon British society through the cinema
Cinema Heritage Interactive Map
Explore this map of 21 local cinemas within a 3 mile radius of the Plaza, from 1930 to 1960.
Advertising of cinemas in the Liverpool Echo
The Liverpool Echo would list over a 100 cinemas each night. I would travel all over Merseyside to watch certain films.
Flyer for the film ‘Cape Fear,’ Bootle Gaumont
Flyer for the Boolte Gaumont Cinema which has been kept for over 50 years and scanned especially for the Going to the Pictures Project. The flyer from 1961 is advertising a future presentation of the film ‘Cape Fear’
