Odeon Cinema Bolton

[23929500]

Another fine Bolton building bites the dust in the name of "development and progress" .At the moment all plans have fallen through and we are left with yet another white elephant in Bolton. Thank you Bolton council !

[Cobnut55]

This mad modern idea to do away with anything of any age just breaks my heart, what`s the matter with people?

[PurpleFairyWings]

it's so sad that art deco buildings are so undervalued

[45192146]

Very moving. I was Assistant Manager 1969-71; 21000 weekly admissions for Love Bug & Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! Other memories: 4 track magnetic sound, Gene Pitney live show with screaming usherettes, cockroaches & rats from the fruit market opposite, 9 selling ice cream in the auditorium with 2 in the front stalls kiosk, stopping parents dropping off children from cars when Alice was full!

Happiest memories with Pat, Irene, Ray, the late Paul Archer & of course Jackie.

Bless that house indeed.

[FunkChicks08]

This is now nothing but empty land, I think a hotel or some sort of large building will take its place.

[samtron2000]

@khan300892. What did you think it was??? A hospital!!! Bloody Nora

[ButterflyRebellion1]

just love the art-deco frontage, a bit like the Morcambe Odeon or the Olympia in Todmorden.

[TwertonWriter]

Pure bloody vandalism



[stickyjam1]

i saw starwars with my mum there ,rode into town on the 524 to moore lane bus station .one of the best days of my young life .on a sadder note saw the film hooper there with my mates 3 times in the days when you could buy a ticket and stay all day .

[LeShark75]

As a child my Father took me there to see my first cinema movie, that was Popeye 1980. Good god that's 30yrs ago.

Nice vid.

[firksyyyyy]

does anybody know if theres any footage of the old cannon cinema before it got pulled down?

[firksyyyyy]

can anyone get any footage of the cannon cinema before that got pulled down?

[monkeywho]

Welcome to the idiots that run our towns now-a-days.

My home town tore down their 1928 atmospheric theatre and put up....

NOTHING, but a parking lot.

Wow.. how freaking uplifting.. a parking lot. Art, craftmanship, history, grandeur .. gone!

I feel your pain my good friend.

[natche2]

the one in Doncaster got pulled down a few weeks back, very sad indeed and so i empathise so much!

[PaulyPearly]

Watched E.T and Tron there haha.....

[fankar91]

Slowly slowly the heart of Bolton has been ripped out. For what???

[Thedoctorsbiggestfan]

where abouts was it, why did it close and its another fabulous building in our not so great town that they pulled down they have recently pulled down the old victorian school across from the fords garage to build another car park they are completely stripping Bolton of its history whats going to be next to go ? we lost Burnden Park the old fire station the water water place the odeon that school i just mentioned the market place (which is now crap) should of left it how it was

[khan300892]

wow great video, i didnt know that was a cinema before.

[viscount812]

Some parts of our history should be protected. The Odeon at Bolton was the first of the "supers" seating over 2000 people - it had 2534 seats and was by far the largest Odeon built at that date (1937).

[trailersic]

That's a truly insane number of people for one screen, the average largest screen in a multiplex is around 500

[anniesoul1]

lol ,, me & my friends used 2 sneak in round the back ,, 2 watch ...jaws... 20 times ...lol lol

[tatty16]

when did the odeon cinema close?

[tomharding]

A long time ago, I've lived in Bolton all my life (I'm nearly 25) and I don't remember it when it was a cinema.

It was a bingo hall about 5 years ago though.

[celinebritgirl]

You jogged my memory thanks. I remember going here to see movies and if I'm not mistaken a christmas concert or two. Did they hold them there in the early sixties? Who's the idiot who tore it down? Why not refurbish it and use it as a live concert facility? That's what they do over here. Not too many buildings like that anymore. What a shame, how short sighted of them.

[gordonl]

From my research I discovered that Jimmy Hendrix and Roy Orbison played there.

[JBsoulsound]

Also the kinks and the small faces

[ihtiandrus777]

@gordonl thats where i am going:P

[jimmyg34567]

@gordonl to name a few , it was great in them days

[lummux]

Thanks for posting this. I remember arriving here in 1977 to see Star Wars, and seeing the biggest queue for a film that I had ever seen, right round the block!

[bugsterboy79]

well done for capturing this before it was too late.

[leadfrog1]

They are replacing it with an 11-storey hotel and building a new cinima in Church Wharf.

[EAASteam]

this place is amazing. alot of history since it became boltons first cinema, then mecca bingo :O

ohh days. lol.

it has been took down now. all gone

[dantv1]

another art deco palace murded

[airscrew1]

Good video and nice to see people preserving these buildings at least on video and film. A few years ago they knocked down Southend Odeon and built an awful monstrosity called a University. Luckily I took lots of pics on Kodachrome Film for posterity.

[TimelordUk]

Pure class. Lovely. My gran used to be an usherette there in the 50s.

[cartoonyboy]

Where's the soundtrack from?

[gordonl]

It's "Bless This House" by (Our) Gracie Fields. One from out of the attic!

[cartoonyboy]

Why did this place close?

[sonicandCodeLyokofan]

Because ODEON no longer belives in art deco cinemas and only cares about Quantity over Quality

[doctorwho3]

Tragic loss of our history. We are about to lose our 'Odeon' (now film center St.Austell)after 71 years, the most magnificent art deco building I have seen, to make way for a new shopping development and 'lego brick' cinema.

[flowersinyourhair]

they do have a purpose its just the idiots are only interested in money

[vipSIXy]

Sad that these grand palaces don't have a purpose any more.

[cartoonyboy]

I agree!

[fartsniff]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you!