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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.
Spending pocket money on our favourite films
Pay day pocket money in hand and off to the pictures, and to the ‘chippy’ for 3 penneth of chips – what joy, blown the rest of that week’s pocket money. My friends and I loved the cinema, oh what Happy Days.
The Metropole Stanley Road Bootle
The fantastic five storey building was built in 1911 as a theatre and described as “artistic throughout”
Women and the Cinema
The cinema for women from the 1930′s onwards has provided an escape from real life and a place in which they could find out about new fashions and trends
Dating at the cinema, being thrown out, and the influence of music
Jean’s cinema memories of dating at the Pictures and the influence of music and not being able to stay in your seat for wanting to dance.
Seeing ‘Oliver’ at the Plaza
My first memory of the pictures is coming to the Plaza to see ‘Oliver’.
Flyer for ‘A Guide for the Married Man’, 1967
Flyer for the ‘X’ rated film ‘A Guide for the Married Man’
Picture Show and Film Pictorial
The film magazine Picture Show was first published in 1919, and gave readers an insight into films that were showing at their local cinemas but more importantly it gave readers the opportunity to learn more […]
Children’s Cinema shows and Matinees
Children’s Cinema shows and matinees hoped to develop young cinema goers into life long film and cinema fans
