Old cinemas of sheffield

[ayazuk2007]

i remember abc on the wicker couldnt get in because i was to young

my big bro and his freinds would go in and open the fire exit for me

[Charters]

38 incredible photos of how cinemas in Britain have changed over 100 years: http://bit.ly/1nS8oyC

 

Some really good photos

[Elmambo]

hiya, i think it was the sunbeam, biggish building near the bottom of barnsley rd on the right hand side going down the hill from town.

 

The Sunbeam was indeed a fine building willybites, but it is the old Roxy. further on towards Firth Park, that was (still is ?) the carpet warehouse. If you look at the building higher-up from the back, you can still see the massive roof area that gives away it's origins. It's had several incarnations since closing as a cinema, bingo, night club (called The Roxy) carpet warehouse. It also appeared in The Full Monty - the outside the club scene - on a hill.

 

Not sure, but I think the Sunbeam building is still there. minus it's imposing frontage.

 

Just think, if we had had had video games when we were young we wouldn't have known any of this !

 

On thinking about this, there is a carpet place on Barnsley Road, just past Lane Top. Is this in the old cinema referred to ?

Edited August 5, 2014 by Elmambo
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[Jim Hardie]

Not sure, but I think the Sunbeam building is still there. minus it's imposing frontage.

 

I'm in two minds about this but I don't think that building was the Sunbeam although it's very similar in shape. I seem to think the Sunbeam was demolished to make way for a petrol filling station roughly where the Tesco Express capark is now.

[Janner]

hiya, i think it was the sunbeam, biggish building near the bottom of barnsley rd on the right hand side going down the hill from town.

The only cinema near Lane Top was the Capital, it opened just before the war.It was situated on the left of the hill to Ecclesfield.

[willybite]

I'm in two minds about this but I don't think that building was the Sunbeam although it's very similar in shape. I seem to think the Sunbeam was demolished to make way for a petrol filling station roughly where the Tesco Express capark is now.

 

hiya the last time I went in what I deemed was the sunbeam, it was for a reunion, the entertainment on the night was the magic circle, one I remember was ali bongo.

[Elmambo]

I'm in two minds about this but I don't think that building was the Sunbeam although it's very similar in shape. I seem to think the Sunbeam was demolished to make way for a petrol filling station roughly where the Tesco Express capark is now.

 

Like you I'm in two minds about this - was the Sunbeam the building be;low this one ?

There was a large house in it's own grounds just behind this area, I assume this was the original Canon Hall. It was demolished late 50's and a pub of the same name built on the location. The area has been redeveloped again to what we see now.

 

I could be wrong, can some one help please.

[Tommo68]

Recall both the Classic and Studio 7 used to run all nighters.

Horrors, Kung Fu, Angels (the biker type) and some others.

In the middle of them you got a cup of soup and sandwich (two if you were UNlucky)

 

The classic went up in smoke, literally, I do recall there being lots of speculation about that. I never did find out whether it was arson as alleged or not.

 

There used to be one on the landing over looking the bus station Cineplex I think it was, used to have a few seperate theatres, they used to run mainstream films and some for the old men in dirty raincoats, they would not even be classed as soft porn now, a load of us went there one night for a laugh.. it wasn't even that good. We proved to be not very popular with the raincoat brigade and a few of them walked out though to be honest most of us were giving them some stick.

 

All three of those and the abbeydale and that one near manor top were all much cheaper than the gaumont abc or odeon. The odeon did have a bar though, if you didn't mind buying a half for the price of a pint and barely time to get one and drink it during the intermission.

 

As kids the Abbeydale was fairly easy to crash and half the fun of going was dodging the ushers on saturday afternoons when we tried to crash it. We'd club together to pay to get two in (25p for each of them I think) who'd then open the fire doors for the rest of us.

I remember later that an adult ticket was 37 1/2p.

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Edited August 5, 2014 by Tommo68

[francypants]

The cinema half way down Barnsley Rd from Sheffield Lane Top was called The Esseldo.

[Corny44]

i remember abc on the wicker couldnt get in because i was to young

my big bro and his freinds would go in and open the fire exit for me

 

The ABC was on Angel St, not the Wicker. I remember joining a very long queue which went into an entrance to the subway. A heck of a lot of people wanted to see Grease in 1978.