Woolton Picture House
Mason Street,
Woolton Village,
Liverpool,
L25 5JH
Mason Street,
Woolton Village,
Liverpool,
L25 5JH
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Opened as the Woolton Picture House on 27 December 1927, it originally had a seating capacity of 673. The Woolton Cinema was Liverpool’s very last of the old style single screen independent cinemas, with its unique blend of old style presentation, comfort, friendly staff and state of the art technology it gained a reputation amongst many Merseyside cinemagoers as Liverpool’s best loved cinema. The Woolton Cinema was closed on 3rd September 2006 due to the death of its owner and put up for sale.
It was purchased by a group of local businessmen and re-opened on 29th March 2007 as the Woolton Picture House.
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The Woolton has been sold to a consortium and it is planned to reopen the cinema soon. Good news!
For many years the chief projectionist at Woolton was Dave Swindell, who is sadly no longer with us. He passed away shortly after his retirement.The cinema was run for many years by Cheshire County Cinemas before being taken over by David Woods, who was the grandson of the founder of Bedford Cinemas (1928) Ltd.They ran several cinemas including the Mayfair, Aigburth and the Abbey, Wavertree. Projection equipment at the Woolton is Westar. There are two machines with a tower system and 2000 ft spools can still be run in the old way. Light source is now xenon. Two converted Peerless carbon arcs provide this. Entrance to the box is from outside the building. I was in the box some time back and took several photos of it.
This is a 2007 photo of the Woolton Picture House.