Odeon Warrington

41-43 Buttermarket Street,
Warrington, W1A 2LY

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lostmemory
lostmemory on June 20, 2009 at 2:57 pm

Here are new links for the three photos posted above:

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Davell
Davell on May 25, 2008 at 8:16 am

In 1964 projection equipment at the Odeon was Kalee 21 machines with President arc lamps and Duosonic sound. Projectomatic automation was another feature enabling auto changeovers etc. The chief projectionist was Fred Laird. Trainee operator was John Forster. He went on to work for ABC and later as a relief operator for Cheshire County Cinemas based at the now demolished Empress Runcorn. John is now working at the Odeon in Bournemouth. A few doors up from the Odeon in Warrington stood the Empire, demoished in the early 1960s. It had a large poster on the side advertising stereophonic sound. It said it was the only cinema in Warrington with stereophonic sound. Eventually the Kalee machines were removed from the Odeon and replaced by Cinemeccanica equipment.

lostmemory
lostmemory on May 23, 2008 at 3:02 pm

Here is an undated color photo of the former Odeon on Buttermarket Street.

KenRoe
KenRoe on May 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Three vintage photographs of the Odeon Warrington:
Playing the Odeon release in August 1949:
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In the mid-1960's
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