Tag: Lime Street

• ABC Cinema, Lime Street

  

  On the day of my visit to the Futurist Cinema, I was thrilled to also be given access to the second rather special cinema building on Lime Street. The Former ABC Cinema, Lime Street, Liverpool opened in 1931 as the ‘Forum’ until 1971 when it was renamed the ABC. Sadly the Cinema finally closed in […]

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  26/08/2018

  ABC Cinema

  ABC Cinema, History, Lime Street, Liverpool

• Liverpool Lime Street to Edge Hill Railway Cutting

  

  I was given an extremely rare opportunity to be able to walk the length of the Liverpool Lime Street to Edge Hill Railway Cutting, during the Lime Street blockade. Various features can be seen throughout the cutting, including the old track workers Cabin, Ramsbottom’s Chimney vent and the bricked up former Triple Decker Tunnel (one […]

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  12/08/2018

  Liverpool Lime Street to Edge Hill Railway Cutting

  Chris Iles, Cutting, Edge Hill, Heritage, History, Iles, Lime Street, Liverpool, Liverpool Lime Street, Mersey Rail, Nikon, Railway Cutting, Railway History, Ramsbottoms Chimney, Triple Decker Tunnel, Tunnel, Williamson’s Tunnels

• Futurist Cinema, Lime Street

  

  This lovely old Cinema once stood on Lime Street, sadly being finally demolished in 2016, despite a campaign by Heritage Organisations to save it. The Cinema was opened in 1912 as the “Lime Street Picture House”. Being the most advanced Cinema in Liverpool at that time. There was seating for 1,029 person’s as well as […]

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  20/06/2017

  Futurist Cinema

  Chris Iles, Frturist Cinema, Futurist, Futurist Cinema Lime Street, Heritage, History, Iles, Lime Street, Liverpool, Nikon