Cannon Liverpool
Lime Street,
Liverpool,
L1 1JN
Lime Street,
Liverpool,
L1 1JN
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I think those rooms up above the stage were the empty Compton pipe organ chambers.It spoke out through those openings and then through the grille immediately above the stage.Unless there is another room above there ,because it has always been rumoured that all the organ pipes and mechanism were still there. so i presume you found no evidence of any higher up rooms.? The organ was said to be removed in 1954 when a cinemasope screen was installed neccesitating the removal of the organ console (on the lift).But that is only 10% of the organ.It was said that the organ chamber was entered from a door on the roof.Perhaps you can investigate that further?
Grand opening ads posted. It reopened as ABC123 Liverpool on August 25th, 1982.
A few photos from August 2018 here:–
EXTERIOR
REAR STALLS
VIEW FROM BALCONY
STAGE FROM FRONT STALLS
SPLAY WALL DETAIL FROM BALCONY
It was one of the sites used for the Liverpool Biennial of 2016. It’s been de-tripled and all the ground floor seating has gone. Apart from damage caused by the de-tripling, the interior is in a sorry state, with an alarming hole in the ceiling. The public were not allowed to go upstairs. https://www.flickr.com/photos/44435674@N00/28244733645/sizes/l
Please click on photos for 3 more pictures.
Great Lime Steet photo smoothie.
Second attempt at posting map link:
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Ian,
The place directly behind the Empire Theatre is the former Odeon – it was closed in 2008. The Forum is at the other end of Lime Street – as you move down it you can see the railway station roof on the right. Immediately after the station is a single square tower block, and opposite this diagonally is a large building with a curved front (in the image I can see on Google Maps there is a red bus and a green/white bus turning right in front of the building). This is the old Forum cinema.
This map shows a few of the Cinemas on/around Lime Street (best seen in Satellite View).http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=103713836400452876723.000460ac1b59b591b9891
Is this the big cinema behind The Empire Theatre. If not what is the huge place i see on Google maps?
Projectors were Ross with RCA sound. Light was provided by Peerless Magnarc. Later Philips FP20s were used.
Scaffolding being removed:
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Liverpool desperately needs a Beatles theatre for putting on shows,talks and films for the 1000’s of tourists who visit each year. Either the Forum or the Futurist seem like a no brainer to fulfill such a role. Why then are they in this state?!?
2 of the interior here:
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My father, Thomas Boyle was the artist who painted the advertising posters for the Forum Lime Street in the 1960s. I would love to know if any photographs of these posters have survived. Thanks.
Here is a recent exterior photograph of the former ABC Forum, Liverpool, in its current closed status:
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I would like to see images of the interior of this cinema,
Eva