Cinema Location Also Known As Built Open Shut Gone Seating Still There Present Use Other Uses Sound Photo Comments - A --------------------------------- ABC Angel Street ABC1-2 [1975] Cannon1-2 [1987] 1961 1961 1988 appx 1989 Scrn1 1300 - Scrn2 94 No Rough Car Park No The Abbeydale Picture House Abbeydale Road 1920 1975 No 1560 Yes Unused Office Furniture warehouse until 1991 1930 Yes Also had a billiard room and a ballroom. Listed building status Adelphi Vicarage Rd, Attercliffe 1920 1967 No 1350 Yes Bingo, Nightclub, Music Teaching Centre 1930 Yes The Albert Hall Barker's Pool 1873 1912 1937 years later 1873-2104 1912-1900 1935-1611 No Cole Bros Department Store Variety, Religious, Music, Organ Recitals, derelict 1937 - 1963 1929 No set on fire July 1937 The Attercliffe Palace Attercliffe Road 1898 The Alhambre Theatre, 1907 The Palace Theatre, 1913 The Picture Palace, 1919 Palace Theatre, 1931 Palace Cinema, 1937 Variety and Music Hall 1897 1913 1937 1955 1600-1898 1000-1931 970-1937 No Carpet Shop Variety Theatre 1930 - B --------------------------------- - C --------------------------------- The Capitol 899 Barnsley Road, Sheffield Lane Top Essoldo 1950, Vogue 1975 1939 1975 No 1735 Yes Carpet Shop Bingo and Social Club Yes Yes The Carlton Eastern Avenue, Arbouthorne 1938 1959 1990s 1222 No Grass Electric Light Company 1938 The first all concrete cinema in Britain The Central Hall Norfolk Street New Tivoli 1914 1899 1940 No The Central Hall Beighton High Street, Beighton 1913 1963 500 No Bingo 1932 Burned down 1922 and rebuilt The Central Picture House The Moor 1940 1940 blitz Grnd 1000 Balc 600 No Shops 1929 waiting room for 500, smoking room,tea room, 16 table billiard hall, totally destroyed 1940 n blitz The Chantrey Picture House Chesterfield Road, Woodseats 1920 1959 No 1400 Gleeson's Office and restraunt Chantry House Builders office, resteraunt downstairs 1930 billiard room, dance hall, tea room The Chapeltown Picture Palace Station Road, Chapeltown 1912 1963 No 450 Yes Snooker Hall Bingo 1963, Later Snooker 1931 Yes Cinecenta Pond Street 2 became Penthouse Club 1969, Cannon 1-2 1986 1969 1969 1-190 2-144 Now part of Odeon Arundel Gate The Cinema House Barker's Pool 1913 1961 1961 800 No shops and Oxford House office block 1930 12 piece orchestra in silent days The Cineplex Charter Square The Anvil 1983 1972 1-65, 2-76, 3-110 Balti House Yes 1-16mm, 2-16mm, 3-35mm The Coliseum Spital Hill 1913 1963 1965 1400, 1100-1935 1930s orchestral organ in 1921, wider spaced seating in 1935 The Crookes Picture Palace Crookes 1912 1960 No 660 Yes Super market 1931 - D --------------------------------- The Darnall Cinema Catcliffe Road The Cinema House Darnall 1913 1957 500 appx Furnature Shop 1930 The Darnall Picture Palace 505 Staniforth Road Balfour Cinema 1933 1913 1959 No 966 Yes Carpet Shop Dry Cleaners 1931 Yes The Don Picture Palace West Bar 1912 1958 950 appx Safestore Storage Funiture Showroom Yes - E --------------------------------- The Ecclesfield Cinema House The Common, Ecclesfield Essoldo 1950 1920 1921 1959 Yes 685 No Car Park Of Arundel Pub 1932 The Electra Palace Fitzalan Square The News Theatre 1945, Classic Cinema 1962 1911 1982 1984 900 Store Amusement arcade, sale room until fire 1930 Burned down in 1984 - F --------------------------------- The Forum Herries Road Essoldo 1956 1938 1969 1800 No Super market Bingo Hall - G --------------------------------- The Globe Picture Hall Attercliffe Common 1913 1959 Yes 1300 down, 400 balc No 1930 The Grand Theatre Spring Street / Coulston Street West Bar Hall 1860's Bijou, the New Star Music Hall 1874, The Grand Theatre 1887 The Grand Theatre Of Varieties 1896 1912 1920 1938 No Perimeter of law courts land Variety, trade show venue, music hall, Homeless Shelter, Soup Kitchen Original theatre 1860's occasional films from 1896 The Greystones Picture Palace Ecclesall Road, Banner Cross 1914 1968 1982 700-1914, 840-1930 Casino Restraunt 1930 tea rooms, dancing and concert hall in basement, Destroyed by fire 1982 - H --------------------------------- The Heeley Coliseum London Road 1913 1961 600 No Tool Hire Store 1931 Demolished and rebuilt as a supermarket, some original walls can still be seen The Heeley Electric Palace London Road 1911 1965 1981 1100-down 350-balc No Car Dealer Bingo, Heeley Place Club, Furnature Warehouse, Skateboard rink 1930 The Heeley Green Picture House Gleadless Road The Tudor 1920 1962 869 Yes Snooker Hall Variety Theatre, Vaudiville Theatre, Casino, Bingo Hall Yes The High Green Picture Palace Thompson Hill, High Green 1914 1957 No 320 Carton and Cardboard Company 1930 The Hillsborough Kinema House Crookes Place (Proctor Place) 1912 1966 Yes 1152-1912, 1202-1932 Car park entrance 1929 The Hillsborough Park Cinema Middlewood Road 1920 1921 1967 No 1900 Yes Super market Bingo, Social Club Hippodrome Cambridge Street ABC 1944 1907 1931 1963 Yes 2760-1907 2730-1910 2445-1931 1419-1960 No Shops, Bar and Hotel Variety theatre-1907 1931 Lots of occasional movies in early days as a theatre - I --------------------------------- - J --------------------------------- - K --------------------------------- - L --------------------------------- The Lansdowne Picture Palace London Road 1914 1940 No 1250-Grnd 200-balc Yes Night club Ballroom, Super market Closed after minor bomb damage in the war, but used by Marks and Spensor after repairs The Lyric Picture House Main Road, Darnall 1920 1962 990 Bingo 1962 Casino - M --------------------------------- Manor Cinema City Road, Manor Top 1927 1969 No 1700 Yes Super store Bingo billiard saloon in basement 10 tables - N --------------------------------- The Norfolk Picture Palace Duke Street 1914 1959 1000 1929 - O --------------------------------- The Odeon Barker's Pool Barker's Pool 1987 1994 No 1-500 2-324 Yes Night club 1929 contains a 31ft mural by joe scarborough The Odeon Flat Street Flat Street, Fitzalan Square 1956 1971 No Grnd 1524 Balc 816 Yes Bingo Originally designed with 2326 seats, shops and offices and partly built 1939 but halted due to war after the war the council planned the new ring road and the started structure was dismantled and re designed a different shape Odeon 7 Arundel Gate Odeon No No Yes Nightclub, Casino Always Took over the cinecenter and casino below to expand to 10 screens Olympia Electric Palace Bramhall Lane 1911 1911 1911 Yes No Student Flats Roller Skating Rink, Kitchen Shop No Only a cinema for three weeks! The Oxford Picture Palace Addy Street, Upperthorpe 1913 1964 Yes 615 1930 - P --------------------------------- The Page Hall Cinema Idsworth Road thr Roxy - 1945 1920 959 1200 bingo dancing school 1931 cafe and billiard hall and ballroom from 1929 The Paragon Sicey Avenue, Firth Park 1934 1962 Yes over 1300 Always Tea room The Park Picture Palace 24 south street, Park SPP - Sheffield Park Palace 1913 1913 1966 1967 appx 900 under park square bingo yes The Pavillion Attercliffe Common 1915 1970 1982 1100 appx No Bingo, Later asian cinema 1930 ten private boxes for 5 people The Phoenix Theatre Langsett Road hillsborough 1911 1970 640 later-614 No Electronic Supplies Filling Station 1930s Named after Fred Phoenix the proprieter The Picturedome Upwell Street, Grimesthorpe The Regent 1925, The New Regent 1912 1940 apprx 500 No 1912-cinema, 1925-music hall, 1931-cinema, 1935-variety, 1945-social centre, motor parts shop 1931 The Plaza Handsworth 1937 1963 No 1100 Yes Bowling Alley Bingo 1963, Casino, Dance Hall Always - Q --------------------------------- - R --------------------------------- The Regent Barker's Pool The Gaumont 1946 1927 1985 Yes 2300 No Kingdom Night club Odeon Cinema, concert hall 1929 The Greatest Cinema of Sheffield, The Beatles played here in 1960's, 2 screens 1969, 3 screens 1979 The Rex Mansfield Road, Intake 1939 1982 1983 1350 Super market car park Always Last open suburban city in Sheffield The Ritz Southey Green Road / Wordsworth Avenue 1937 1966 No 1700 Yes Bingo and Social Club The Roscoe Palace Infirmary Road (now) shalesmoor 1922 900 No New Road Bingo and Casino Yes Entrance at screen end The Rutland Picture House Rutland Road / Burton Road 1915 early 1940s 1948 760 then 816 No - S --------------------------------- The Scala Brook Hill / Winter St 1921 1952 1020 Car Park British Resteraunt in War, then used by University 1929 The Sheffield Picture Palace Union St The Picture Palace or The Palace 1910 1964 1964 1910 1000, 1928 1100 No Shop / office block Redvers House 1929 Sheffield's first purpose built cinema. Area was completely redeveloped in 1960s and 70s The Star Picture House 158-160 Ecclesall Road 1915 1915 1962 1986 1028 No Petrol Station 1962 - 1984 Bingo and social club 1929 The Stocksbridge Palace Manchester road, Stocksbge 1920 1921 1966 1000 Bingo 1966 1931 The Sunbeam Pictures Barnsley Road, Fir Vale 1922 1961 Yes 1156 No Petrol Station 1930 - T --------------------------------- The Theatre Royal Attercliffe Staniforth Road 1896 The People's Theatre, 1897 The Theatre Royal, 1935 The Regal Appx 1896 1961 Yes 918 No Shops Variety 1929 Totally rebuilt 1933 - 1935 The Tinsley Picture Palace Sheffield Road, Tinsley 1912 1958 Yes 698 No Road 1930 - U --------------------------------- The Unity Picture Palace Langsett Road 1913 1959 960 furniture shop Yes - V --------------------------------- The Victory Palace Upwell Street, Grimesthorpe 1921 1957 Yes Over 900 No Filling Station 1930 with lounge and billiard hall with 5 tables - W --------------------------------- The Walkley Palladium South Road 1914 1962 Yes 1000 No 1929 The Weston Picture Palace St. Phillip's Road / Mitchell Street 1914 1957 Yes 657 No 1931 The Wicker Picture House The Wicker 1962 Studio7 1974 Studio 5-6-7 1914 1920 1987 No New Ring Road 1914 Steel Warehouse 1930 converted to triple screen 1974 The Wincobank Picture Palace Merton Road Wincobank 1914 1914 1959 No 610 Yes Plumbers Merchant The Woodhouse Picture Palace Market Square, Woodhouse 1914 1957 Yes 800 No 1930 1920 altered and extended The Woodseats Palace Chesterfield Road 1911 1911 1961 No 500 Yes Store religious services 1930s Built in only 12 weeks, Balcony added in 30's - X --------------------------------- - Y --------------------------------- - Z --------------------------------- Cinema Location Also Known As Built Open Shut Gone Seating Still There Present Use Other Uses Sound Photo Comments