Cinemas in Waterloo and Litherland from the Past

OLD cinemas that once existed in Waterloo and Litherland are featured in Memories this week.
Pictures have been submitted by Crosby Herald reader Tom Heath from the 1930s and 1940s.
Queen's Picture House, which was once in South Road, in Waterloo is pictured in around the 1940s or 1950s.
Built within a row of shops, The Queens Cinema had a hall that could up to 660 people.

It was opened in 1913 by Waterloo Picturehouse Co Ltd and in 1920 was sold off to Wirral Picturedromes Ltd.
The cinema eventually closed in 1959 and the building was taken over by Thomas Hall to be turned into a furniture shop.
A photograph appeared in Memories on October 9 about The Corona Cinema in College Road, dating back to around the 1940s.
In response, a 65-year-old Crosby reader has told of her memories of visiting the old picture house for the very first time as a child to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
She insisted on taking a big doll with her and her father ended up with it on his knee.
There was also a dance held at the hall above the shops next to the cinema every Saturday night.
Readers are also being asked for information about a cinema that is pictured, that used to be in Linacre Road in Litherland.

It is not believed to be The Gainsborough Cinema but anyone who remembers the picture house or has any memories of the venue is asked to get in contact.
South Road is also pictured in around the 1940s as well as a picture from the same decade of the Tram Station in Crosby Road South in Waterloo.

Another photograph has been submitted of the old Seafield House on the Seaforth shore, which is believed to have been taken in around the 1950s.

Anyone with information about the places in the photographs or anyone with pictures is asked to send them to Lyndsay Young, Crosby Herald, 26-32 Tulketh Street, Southport, PR8 1BT, email lyndsay.young@liverpool.com or call 0151 282 8117.