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Editorial
Corona Cinema – College Road Crosby
The beautiful building was demolished and now shops stand in its place
The Regent Cinema – Liverpool Road, Crosby
The Regent Cinema was the first suburban cinema in the area to have a cafe lounge installed when it was built in 1920, over the years the building has had several uses including a bingo and social club. It is now part of St Mary’s School Gymnasium.
Crosby Cinema / Crosby Picture House – Liverpool Road, Crosby
Crosby Cinema or Crosby Picture House was opened 100 years ago as Crosby’s only cinema.
Escapism at the cinema and the glamourous film stars
The lives and views of the stars were big news and the film stars would become as much as a draw to the cinema as the films themselves
Collecting and copying the film stars
Film cards, magazines and photographs of the stars became valuable prized possessions which were collected and exchanged by the cinema goers and would be a talking point in society.
Female stars of the screen through the decades
Some of the females stars through the decades who drew in the crowds at the cinema
Employment in the Picture Houses
The cinema became a place of respectable employment and offered roles to both men and women
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
The Queens Picture House South Road Waterloo
The Queens Picture House – The first purpose built cinema in Waterloo
