Hippodrome Cinema

Carnegie Street,
Ellesmere Port, CH65

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bilmac
bilmac on January 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm

Hi Matt, I will email it to you, it’s not a good one of the Hippodrome, it was really only taken for the photo of the lass. Cheers.. Bill.

CARNEGIE
CARNEGIE on January 2, 2009 at 4:32 am

Thats a shame,my father has asked me if you knew Catherine Hale (my grandmother) and flo Milward (my great auntie) who both worked as cleaners at the queens in the fifties,it would be great if you could scan that picture and email it to me at ,or if easier,could you copy and post to me and i will reimburse you for any costs incurred,thanks…matt (this would be much appreciated)

bilmac
bilmac on January 1, 2009 at 9:58 pm

Hi Carnegie, a very apt nickname …lol. I’m sorry I live in Australia, have done for 48 years now and most photos I did have have long since been lost or destroyed. I do have one taken on the steps of the Hippodrome, it’s a photo of a young lady the ticket seller at that time circa 1954.

CARNEGIE
CARNEGIE on December 27, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Hi bilmac,I am very interested in the hippodrome ellesmere port,have you got any interior or exterior pictures i could copy,I have looked all over and there are very few to be found,my dad worked in the cinema when it became quicks in the late fifties,and we would be grateful of any info or photos ,thanks…

bilmac
bilmac on November 23, 2008 at 9:37 pm

The Hippodrome was owned and operated by B & S Cinemas
(Bates & Speakman.

bilmac
bilmac on November 22, 2008 at 11:39 pm

The Hippodrome was a beautiful cinema, the foyer was especially grand. I was Projectionist there for quite a few years in the 1950’s. The projection room was equipped with Kalee 12 projectors and Western Electric mirrophonic sound heads and Peerless magnarc lamp houses. We installed Cinemascope in about 1956 opening with “Lucky Me” a Doris Day musical.

Ah! those were the days.