Cannon Stockport
98 Wellington Road South,
Stockport,
SK1 3UH
98 Wellington Road South,
Stockport,
SK1 3UH
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Photo uploaded of newspaper ad for the live show, ‘The Rolling Stones’ and ‘Peter and Gordon’.
The four ‘super cinemas’ in the town (ABC Ritz, Plaza, Essoldo, Davenport) all had stages and dressing rooms but it seems strange that an important show such as this played the Essoldo as opposed to the ABC which, at least upon opening, had 600 more seats.
In other towns where ABC and Essoldo had stage facilities , most notably Stockton and Huddersfield, ‘The Rolling Stones’ were always to be seen at the ABC.
Going to the Essoldo marked my introduction to cinemagoing. I was taken here by my mother and Godmother on my fourth birthday in April, 1951, to see the Cecil B. De Mille Technicolor epic SAMSON AND DELILAH. I can still see Victor Mature pushing apart the stone pillars that supported the Temple of Dagon and quite literally bringing the house down. I also remember I kept turning around in my seat and looking at the dancing beam of blue-ish light that came from way up there and seemed to have something to do with what was going on on the screen, never dreaming at that time that one day, I, too, would become a projectionist…although not at the Essoldo, Stockport.
and another demolition shot from the screen end
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/61986735/
and as demolition started
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exterior in 1989
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/731116888/
Two photos taken when it was the Cannon Cinema here :–
Exterior
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Interior (former stalls screen)
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