Parkway Cinema
62-68 Eldon Street,
Barnsley,
S70 2JL
62-68 Eldon Street,
Barnsley,
S70 2JL
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Glad to hear the Parkway is still going strong, and may it continue, what ever happened to Andy Baker and the original projectionists, when it was still Odeon..
Made a point of visiting this cinema on the way up North from Bristol. I wasn’t disappointed. Excellent cinema with good picture, sound and sight lines - in Screen 2 at least, with theatrical presentation done right. Very friendly owner only too happy to show me round after the show. Crucial this cinema survives once Cineworld open nearby. Worth a visit and deserving your support if you are in the area.
Hi to you all. I have been attending this cinema since 1956, my first film was Norman Wisdom, I was only 7 years of age at the time. At the time the Gaumont, as it was know then, was part of the Rank organisation, Norman Wisdom was tied to this company. I still attend 2 or 3 times a month, the picture quality being second to none. I had the misfortune to attend a multiplex cinema recently in West Yorkshire, the picture quality was worse than awful and cost double the price of the Parkway. Robert, yours is a brilliant, well maintained cinema and long may you prosper.
Understand 70mm. was installed in Screen 2 in order to show “The Hateful Eight”. If this is the case, the Parkway team deserve both congratulations and support. I enjoyed the film at a packed Odeon Leicester Square and, at the time, it was thought Filmhouse Edinburgh would the only other cinema to show the Ultra Panavision 70 film once it ended its successful run in Leicester Square. Bradford Pictureville weren’t able to share the roadshow treatment as PictureHouse Cinemas book the films there and their parent, Cineworld, refused to show it in any of their locations in spite at Mr Tarantino and the distributors granting OLS four weeks West End exclusivity (barring PictureHouse Central in Shaftesbury Avenue until the huge Odeon’s run had clocked up four very successful weeks).
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.