Old shops in town

[ANTHONY]

Winston's on Snig Hill. Classy stuff there in the mid 50s. Always priced their stuff in £s and $s. Sharkskin shirts with cutaway collars and who remembers the famous 'Slim Jim' ties?

[bellis]

There used to be a cinema above Pond Street (below where Roxy's used to be). Any help in the name? Been there a few times!!!

 

i remember it as the cannon from around 85 onwards wish i knew what it was called before that

what i do remember is that 1 screen showed the hollywoodf stuff while the other screen showed the very tame soft porn type of film

[RoyalRegular]

Would that be the Cinecenta?

[Greybeard]

The police box (Tardis) around the side of the Town Hall.

 

Well that's OT I suppose if you think of it as a 'cop shop'

 

Still there BTW. I think it is the last in Sheffield.

[Greybeard]

Have not read all the thread so someone may have already said this but Maces pet shop in the old market was brilliant, when it moved to the new Castle Market with the closing of the old market it was still good. As a kid you could cuddle the puppies , kittens and rabbits. And they had snakes and tarantula spiders and giant centipedes and axolotls and stuff. Excellent. Is it still there?

 

Was that the one on the old Market Hall basement ? I can remember hens, ducks, rabbits, puppies and kittens etc. - but nothing exotic.

[milosmum]

Wasn't that cinema called The Classic in Fitzalan Square?

[Falls]

Wasn't that cinema called The Classic in Fitzalan Square?

 

Hi,

 

Yes the cinema in the square was the Classic.

 

Before that, it was the News Theatre showing newsreels, travelogs from the US, cartoon etc. the show lasted about 2 hours and was continuous from, say lunch time until late evening. You could stay in and watch the show as many times as you wanted but once was usually enough.

 

Before that, (up to say 1950) it was called the Electra and showed regular films.

 

The other cinema mentioned earlier in other threads was on Pond Street, I think it was next to what used to be Top Rank. Never went there and can't remember the name.

 

 

The one on Flat Street, across from the old post office, was the Odeon. The Rank Organization started to build it before the war but all worked stopped in 1939. Construction resumed in the early 1950's and it opened in 1954. The first movie was Reach for the Sky, the story of Douglas Bader, staring Kenneth Moore.

[sapphire_blu]

There used to be a cinema above Pond Street (below where Roxy's used to be). Any help in the name? Been there a few times!!!

was it either "cine-centre or cineplex???

[Plain Talker]

it was cinecenta or cine-centre.

the odeon has incorporated the screens of the cinecenta into the "mega-plex-y" thing on arundel Gate. they have something like seven different auditoria on three or four different levels.

 

PT

[Jan39]

Oh dear, I remember Burton's the Fifty Shilling Tailor's, I think it was on the corner of King Street, I didn't realise I was so old.