Ladbroke Film Centre

Nottingham Road, Chaddesden,
Derby, DE21

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woody
woody on March 23, 2009 at 3:30 am

newspaper page from the bingo relaunch nov 1983
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photos i took in 1983
prosceium sidewall plasterwork
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hidden circle ceiling plasterwork above the twin cinemas
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one of the Kalee projectors Sc1 i think
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one of the twin cinemas in 1983
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and the other screen
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woody
woody on March 23, 2009 at 3:16 am

photo taken around the opening in november 1938

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woody
woody on March 6, 2008 at 2:03 am

derby cinema ads including the Ladbroke from 1982/3/4
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woody
woody on December 18, 2007 at 3:20 pm

advert from 1981-ish showing the great family entertainment
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keiths
keiths on February 1, 2006 at 11:22 pm

I’ve just looked at Woody’s advert pics. SO SAD………..

woody
woody on October 3, 2005 at 2:11 am

here is a side view showing the Gloria’s terrific deco frontage inspite of years of neglect and the patched up brickwork on the sides
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and here are two adverts for the cinema including the closing weeks advert… a reminder of the poor quality of cinema releases in this period

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KenRoe
KenRoe on October 2, 2005 at 5:14 am

Hi Woody; Thanks for the Herbie correction, I thought ‘Goes Back’ didn’t sound familiar (details were taken from Sam Winfield’s book ‘Dream Palaces of Derby’).

Yes you are correct that the building was called Cascades Bingo at some stage, this was before Top Rank Bingo, the last operators, who closed it down on 15th October 2000. According to my records, the building was demolished in March 2001. Prior to demolition, the disused building had been set on fire three times in December 2000.

I have posted the Majestic Super Cinema, Chaddesden and the Rex, Alvaston (my local for the first 21 years of my life when I lived in Derby) onto Cinema Treasures. More to come…..

woody
woody on October 1, 2005 at 7:02 am

Hi Ken, a correction – one of the closing films was “herbie goes bananas” the derby evening telegraphs witty headline was NOBODY GOES BANANAS AS CINEMA CLOSES. At some point in the late 80’s the building had a lot of money spent on it and the mini cinemas were removed and the whole building was opened up to bingo, I think at this point it was called Cascades Bingo.
It was only demolished a year ago to be replaced by a supermarket, a fate that had befallen its nearby competitor the Majestic – another terrific deco super cinema with a similar fin tower. Derby was very lucky to have some amazing cinema buildings, virtually all of which have now gone.
Interesting note – if you look at photos of the Gloria you can see that the brickwork above the deco grill is a lighter colour, this is where it received bomb damage in the war and a large curve of brickwork was replaced.

KenRoe
KenRoe on October 1, 2005 at 4:24 am

A photograph of the Essoldo Cinema, Chaddesden that I took in 1961. Note that the fin-tower is still intact at full original height, but has lost 3 of its black glazed tiles.
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KenRoe
KenRoe on September 30, 2005 at 3:09 pm

Thanks to woody, an exterior photograph of the former Gloria Cinema, Chaddesden taken just prior to the twin mini-cinemas closing. Note the reduced height of the fin-tower feature on the left hand side of the building.:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woody1969/47990141/