Princess Cinema
168 North Promenade,
Blackpool,
FY1 1RE
168 North Promenade,
Blackpool,
FY1 1RE
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That’s the word I was looking for “so atmospheric” – the Princess Theatre. Thanks Terry.
The ABC/Church Street: Used to see wonderful Summer Shows whilst staying in Blackpool with my british stepfather and family in the 70’s. I experienced it being converted into Cinema and saw “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” back in 1984 in “Screen 1” of ABC.
Personelly I was so shocked reading about “The ABC” to be demolished (Blackpool Gazette) to make way for another…. car park! So, the iconic and historical ABC- Building is “History” by now and I wonder if the council will regret their foolish decision. It’s a disgrace, really.
You worked for the ABC? What was your profession at ABC, may I ask? I’ve grown up in a family with Cinematic Background here and the cinematic history dates back to 1928, when my Great-Grandfather opened the first Cinema in our small town of Balingen. Well it doesn’t date me, :), but I grew up with Cinema, I’ve always loved it and always will love it.
It was a new and lovely experience to visit one or two of Blackpools cinematic “Crown-Jewels”, which I will never forget.
It was a very nice cinema and I remember it well. I worked for ABC for many years and they had some very nice theatres indeed. Blackpool had to be one of the jewels in the crown with the wonderful ABC Theatre, Church Street and the atmospheric Princess, North Shore.
Well Terry, I think you’re right, must have been in the ODEON, Dickson Road (another very impressive building). Still, I’ve been to the Princess Cinema, must have been so impressed, that I forgot about the movie :)
‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ would have played at the Odeon, Dickson Road.
There seems to be no interior photograph/s of this beautiful cinema from the 60’s or late 70’s. What a shame, really. I saw “James Bond – The Spy Who Loved Me” at the “Princess”,while staying in Blackpool for the summer. I was sitting in the vast Balcony with my mother and we were very impressed by it’s beautiful interior and big screen. Greetings from Germany Christina
I saw The Shining and The Exorcist and Exorcist II here as well as, I think it was here, a double bill of Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween. Happy memories!
Finished off my work as a projectionist here in 1978.
Saw ‘Paint Your Wagon’ at the ABC Princess in 70mm in 1969. Not the best of 70mm theatres, though the sound was reasonable.
Here is photograph I took of the ABC Princess Cinema in June 1963:
http://flickr.com/photos/kencta/244008287/