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The Former Cinemas Of Sheffield, and What They Are Now
Red Text Indicates Unknown Name For Cinema
CINEMA
OPEN
Closed
Demolished
SEATS
Building
Still
Existing?
Present Use
Other Uses
 Gaumont ( Rank )
or Regent
Barkers Pool
First Talkie 17-06-29
Became Gaumont 1946
Became Twin Screens 1969
And Triple Screens 1979
1927
1985
1985
2300
No
Kingdom Nightclub
& Shops @ Front
Odeon Cinema
New Building
Odeon
Barkers Pool
Picture Press Here
1987
1994
-
 Odeon1
500
Odeon2
324
Yes
Kingdom Nightclub
 
The Albert Hall
Reused Theatre
Built 15/10/1873
Barkers Pool
First Talkie - 9/9/1929
1918
1937
1937
2104
(1873)
1900
( 1912 )
1611
( 1935 )
No
Cole Brothers
Department Store
Since 1963
Theatre,
Concert Hall &
Religious Meeting Hall
Destroyed By Fire
14/7/1937
Derelict 1937-1963
Cinema House
Barkers Pool
First Talkie - 24/2/1930
1913
1961
1961
 
No
Shops & Office Block
Oxford House
 
A.B.C. Cinema 1961
A.B.C. 1-2 1975
The Cannon 1-2 1987
Angel Street
1961
1988
-
Main-1
1300
2
94
No
Waste Ground / Car Park
 
Hippodrome
Reused Theatre
Built 1907
ABC 20/12/1944
Cambridge Street
First 3D - Aug 1953
First Cinemascope - Aug 1954
1931
1962
1962
2730
(1910)
2445
(1935)
1419
(1960)
No
 Shops,
Grovesnor House Hotel
And Wapentake Bar
 Opened 23/12/1907
Films & Variety

Cinema -20/7/1931
Until 2/3/1962

The Grand
reused theatre (1860's)
Spring st./Coulston st.
1910
1920
1938
 
No
Perimiter of Law
Courts Land
~ ~ Theatres ~ ~
West Bar Hall 1860's
The New Star Music Hall 1874
The Grand Theatre 1887
The Grand Theatre of Varieties 1896
Trade Show Centre 1922-4
Homeless Shelter
Soup Kitchen
Central Picture House
The Moor
First Talkie 17-06-29
   
No
Shops
 This Area Was Flattened In The 2nd World War
Abbeydale Picture House
Abbeydale Road
First Talkie - 10/2/1930
Pictures - Press Here
1920
1975
-
1560
Yes
Unused
Office Furniture
Showroom
Warehouse until 1991
Opened 20/12/1920
Closed 5/7/1975
High Green Picture Palace
Thompson Hill
High Green
 -
-
-
320
Yes
 South Yorkshire Carton
a cardboard factory
 
Hillsborough Park Cinema
Middlewood Road, Hillsborough
Pictures - Press Here
1920
-
-
 
Yes
Netto Supermarket
Bingo
Supasave Supermarket
Hillsborough Kinema
Proctor Place
   
No
Car Park
 
Hillsborough Phoenix
The Phoenix Theatre 1911
Langsett Road
 1911
-
-
640
No
Maplins Electronics Shop
 Opened 27/3/1911
Petrol Station
Heeley Electric Palace
London Road
Opened 7 - 8 - 1911
Star Bingo  6 -3 -1963
Demolished 1981
1911
1963
1981
 
No
Car Showroom
Star Bingo
Heeley Palace Club
Roller Skating Rink
Heeley Coliseum
London Road
Opened 28 - 10 - 1913
Closed 14  - 1 - 1961
1913
1961
-
 
No
Tool Hire Shop
 Demolished & Rebuilt
as a supermarket
some original walls can still be seen
Heeley Green
Gleadless Road
Pictures - Press Here
Opened 5 - 4 - 1920
Variety Theatre - 1930
Cinema Again 9 - 5 - 1938
Closed 3 - 6 - 1962
1920
1962
-
 
Yes
Potters Snooker Club
Variety Theatre
Bingo
Casino
Manor Picture House
City Road
 
 
Yes
Somerfield
Supermarket
 
Greystones Picture Palace / Greystones Palace Ball Room
Ecclesall Road
 
 
No
Casino

1969 - Greystones Bingo Upstairs
Shades Nightclub Downstairs

Origional Building
Burned Down
Around Early 1980's
Casino/Resteraunt 

Star Cinema
158-160 Ecclesall Road
 
 
No
Shell Petrol Station
 in 1969
The Star Bingo & Social Club
Odeon Theatre
( Rank )
Flat Street
Photo - Press Here
1956
1971
-
2340
Yes
Bingo Hall
 Opened July 1956
Last Film June 1971
55ft wide screen
Electra Palace 1911
News Theatre Sept 1945
Cartoon Cinema
Classic Cinema Jan1962
Fitzalan Square
First Talkie - 1930
1911
1982
1984
900 
No
Amusement Arcade
 Opened Feb 1911

Sale Room Until It
Burned Down Feb 1984

Roscoe
Shalesmoor
   
No
Widened Road
Casino & Bingo Hall
The Lansdowne Picture Palace
London Road
Picture - Press Here
1914
1940
-
1500
Yes
Bed Nightclub
Ballroom
Supermarket
Nightclub
The Pavillion
Attercliffe Common
Attercliffe
-
-
1982
 
No
 
Bingo
Asian Cinema
Regal Cinema
Staniforth Road
Attercliffe
Previously The Theatre Royal
1935
-
-
 
No
Shops
The People's Theatre 1896
The Theatre Royal 1897
(Mainly used As Cinema)

Totally Rebuilt as a cinema, and opened 14/10/1935

Picture Palace
Attercliffe Road
Attercliffe
sound 13/10/1930
Origionally The Alhambra Theatre built 1897
opened Jan 1898
1913
1937
1955
1600
(1898)
1000
(1931)
970
(1937)
No
Carpet Shop
1 The Alhambra Theatre 3/1/1898
2 The Palace Theatre 1/8/1907
3 Picture Palace 1913 - 1919
4 Palace Theatre 1919 - 1931
5 Palace Cinema 1931 - 1937
6 Variety & Music Hall 1937 -1955
Ritz Picture House
Southey Green Road
Picture - Press Here
 1937
-
-
 
Yes
Bingo/Social Club
 Opened 6/10/1937
Wicker Picture Palace
Studio 7 Cinema 1974
Wicker
First Talkie - 1930
Converted To Triple Screen
Studio7 In 1974
1920
1987
-
 
No
Road Improvements
 Built 1914 as cinema
but used as steel warehouse
during the war and not opened as a cinema until 1920
Last Film 20th Aug 1987
The Anvil Cinema
Charter Square
Picture - Press Here
   
Yes
Curry House
 
The Olympia Electric Palace
Bramhall Lane
1911
1911
-
 
No
 
Only Lasted As A Cinema For 3 Weeks !!!

Roller Skating

Page Hall Cinema
Roxy Cinema
Idsworth Rd
Fir Vale
Picture - Press Here
   
Yes
 
Warehouse
Full Monty Filmset Location
Bingo Club
Sunbeam Cinema
Barnsley Road
Fir Vale
-
-
-
 
No
Petrol Station
 
Rex Cinema
Mansfield Road
( Corner of Hollybank Rd )
Intake
 1939
1982
-
1350
No
Supermarket
 Opened 24/7/1939
The Plaza Picture House
Richmond Rd
Handsworth
Pictures - Press Here
 1937
-
-
 
Yes
Bowling Alley
 Opened 27/10/1937
Crookes Picture Palace
( Crookes Pictures )
Crookes
Pictures - Press Here
 -
-
-
 
Yes
Crookes Discount Centre
Supermarket
Darnall Picture Palace
Balfour Cinema
Darnall
505 Staniforth Road
Pictures
 -
-
-
 
 Yes
 Carpet Shop
in 1969 - Fabric
Dyers&Cleaning Firm
The Lyric
Darnall
   
?
Location Not
Known
   
The Cinema House
Darnall
1913
1957
 
 ?
Location Not
Known
 
Furniture Shop
The Regal
Darnall
   
 ?
Location Not
Known
   
Scala
Brook Hill
   
No
Sheffield University
Carpark Behind
Arts Tower & Between Firth Building & White Block
 Used For Storage
By University
Western
Western Bank
 
 
No
   
Adelphi
Vicarage Road
Attercliffe
sound - 24/4/1930
Pictures - Press Here
1920
1967
-
 
Yes
Music Teaching
Centre
Bingo
Nightclub
Essoldo Cinema 1950
Vogue Cinema 1975
Captol Cinema 1939
899 Barnsley Road
Sheffield Lane Top
Pictures - Press Here
1939
1975
-
1735
Yes
Carpet Warehouse
Bingo
& Social Club
Opened 18 Sept 1939
Closed 4 Oct 1975
Paragon
Firth Park
Sicey Avenue
-
-
-
 
?
Don't know if
bowling alley
is completely
new building
Firth Park Bowl
Bowling Alley
 
The Picture Palace
or The Palace
Union Street
 1910
-
1964
1000
No
Shops & Offices
Now Redvers House
 Area Completely
Redeveloped
1960's & 1970's
Sheffield's First Purpose
Built Cinema
The Norfolk
Duke Street
Hyde Park
   
No
   
The Park Cinema
Former Park Picture Palace
SPP -Sheffield Park Palace
24 South Street
Park
1913
1966
c1972
900
No
The Roadway on the park square roundabout where the southern Supertram bridge is
 Bingo Hall
Carlton Cinema
Arbouthorne
Eastern Avenue
1938
1959
-
1222
No
Cleared &
Undeveloped
 Opened 15 Aug 1938
Lamp Warehouse
Woodseats Palace
692 Chesterfield Road
 1911
-
-
 
No
Closed Supermarket
Fine Fare
Kwik Save
Alldays
Chantry Picture House
Chesterfield Road
First Talkie - 28/4/1930
Pictures - Press Here
-
-
-
 
 YES
Gleeson's
Office Block
( Chantry House )
 
Don Cinema
West Bar
Pictures - Press Here
-
-
-
 
 !
Part of original
cinema is still there
Sales Shop
"SafeStore"
Progress House
Wool Warehouse
E.L.S. Building
Forum Picture House
Later
Essoldo Southey
Southey Green
Herries Road
1938
-
1970s?
 
No
Tesco
 Opened 17/9/1938
Still open 1969
Walkley Palladium
South Road 
Walkley
   
No
Netto Shop
 
Unity
Wood Street
( off Langsett Road )
 -
-
-
 
?
Not sure about
this one
 
Warehouse
Palace
Woodhouse
   
?
Not Been To
Find Out
   
Palace
Tinsley
Sheffield Road
Just On The Rotherham Side Of
Wharf Road, Opposite The End
Of Hatherlry Road.

Built Before 1921

 -
-
-
 
No
Widened Road OnThe
Approach To The
Southern Tinsley
Roundabout
 
Palace
Wincobank
   
?
Location Not
Known
   
Palace
Stocksbridge
   
?
Not Been To
Find Out
   
Ecclesfield
Cinema House
The Common
Sound 7/3/1932
1950 - Essoldo
1920
1959
-
685
No
Car Park of
Arundel Pub
which stands at
1 The Common
 
Chapeltown Cinema
Station Road
Chapeltown
1912
c1960
-
c360
Yes
Cueball Snooker
Bingo Club



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