Parkway Cinema
62-68 Eldon Street,
Barnsley,
S70 2JL
62-68 Eldon Street,
Barnsley,
S70 2JL
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Here is a website for the Parkway Cinema.
I spent a few days working a cleaning company that helped restore the cinema, upstairs in screen two there is still the orignal brass rails that were the pride of the place for years i spent a full day bringing them back to how they used to be.The place has never looked better,The staff are very helpfull and the snacks and treats are fab go see for you’re self.Congratulations to Rob,Jezz and everyone else who worked hard on the project well worthwhile
terry hutcheon
Good to read that this Cinema has reopened.
I thought Rob Younger worked as Service Engineer for City Screen, may be no longer there?.
The Parkway reopened in August 2007 and these pictures were taken a week later. It is a comfortable theatre with generous legroom and a large (new) screen in the lower auditorium. It has been fully refurbished for the reopening, retaining the Odeon seating.
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Foyers:
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Screen 1
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Screen 2
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Actually the screens are bigger than they were! We have retained the original screen frames, but made the screens as large as possible within them. Screen 2, at 12.5 metres wide, is said to be around the same size as the Odeon Leicester Square. Major surgery would be needed to make the screens even larger – all the re-installation work was funded privately, but we will invest further if we can attract sufficient audience numbers to pay off our credit cards!
i’ve been today not much has changed and is still very traditional. however i’m sure the screens use to be bigger than they are
good news our cinema is reopening as a parkway cinema on wed aug 8th 2007. this means no more tran hoppiing to sheffield and going to the cinema will be a much more frequent experience.
Sadly Odeon Barnsley closed on September 17th, the site having been sold to a property developer. A sad loss.
A 2001 photograph of the Odeon Barnsley here:
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A Christmas 1970 exterior photograph of the Odeon Barnsley here:
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when the odeon shuts, there will be no cinema in barnsley. I have grown up going there and will deeply miss it, as old as it was. I hope there are plans for another cinema because its over £2 on the bus to get to the meadowhall one. It is stupid.
The end is indeed nigh – the cinema will close in July 2005. It is believed that the building has been sold but not as a cinema.