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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.
Employment in the Picture Houses
The cinema became a place of respectable employment and offered roles to both men and women
Cinema Heritage Trail Map to print
As part of the project we have produced a specially designed Cinema Heritage Trail Map. 5000 have been printed and distributed locally - keep a look out at your local community centre, or pick one […]
Exchanging jam jars and running errands
Tommy remembers exchanging jam jars and doing odd jobs to earn money to go to the pictures.
Cinema audiences
Cinemas accommodated for different audiences by holding film programs which catered and entertained many tastes.
Watching the horror film ‘The Night of the Living Dead, with my wife.
I remember watching ‘The Night of the Living Dead’ with my wife, who hid throughout the whole film.
The Regal Cinema Church Road Litherland
The Regal was built as a purpose built cinema and opened 1939. With a white frontage, the sail shape building was a very popular venue especially with courting couples who remember the double ‘Love Seats’
To be continued…The Serial at the cinema
Cinemas would show episodes of a serial each week which would be left on a cliff hanger, this was a way of having regular cinema patrons return each week
The cinema as a community venue.
The Cinema’s of the 1930′s to the 1960′s were often seen as being a quite luxurious venue for the public to go. They were an important part of the community for socialising and magnificent places of entertainment
