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Apr 30, 2023 · So we've taken a look back at some of Bristol's most memorable cinemas from the Triangle Cinema, which was lost in The Blitz, to crowds flocking to see The Sound of Music at Odeon in Union Street...
- Bristol's cinemas which stood the test of time and those long ...
At this time it was run by the same management as the...
- The story of Bristol's long lost city centre in 18 pictures
From then until April 1941, there were six major bombing...
- Bristol's cinemas which stood the test of time and those long ...
- Finzels Reach, Counterslip. Now a swanky office/apartment complex ‘rebranded’ and infested with yuppies, this site was formerly known to generations of Bristolians as the old Courage Brewery.
- The O2 Academy. Opened back in 1966 with the Lord Mayor and sundry other civic dignitaries in attendance for a charity screening of Doctor Zhivago, the New Bristol Centre’s brand spanking new ABC was heralded as the luxurious cinema of the future (see hilarious Pathe newsreel, below).
- King’s House, Old Market. A nondescript five-storey office building on the corner of Old Market Street and Bond Street marks the spot of the King’s Cinema, opened in 1911.
- Merchant Venturers Building, University of Bristol. Back in 1911, the pointy bit at the junction of Woodland Road and Park Row became Clifton’s very first cinema, The Coliseum.
Sep 29, 2019 · At this time it was run by the same management as the Whiteladies Picture House, but not for much longer – it would be lost in the Blitz. The News Theatre, Castle Street News Theatre cinema ...
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Aug 1, 2023 · This 'Golden Era' of the Bristol cinema was relatively short lived. Wartime bombing brought an end to many cinemas such as The Regent, Triangle and Portview (Avonmouth). Others closed when audience numbers began to decline in the 1950s when television began to rise to prominence.
Sep 25, 2015 · But two films from 1942, The Blitzed Cities of Bristol and Bath and Exeter after the Blitz, show us the all-too-real aftermath of German bombing raids. The familiar sights – of rubble and twisted metal and stunned locals, and smouldering ruins being picked over by ARP men – seem strangely incongruous so far from the capital.
Many old buildings were severely damaged or completely destroyed including almshouses in Temple Street and North Street, St Nicholas Church and Clifton Parish Church, and the Dutch House - a multi-story timber-frame building dating from 1676.
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Nov 19, 2023 · From then until April 1941, there were six major bombing raids on the city in what became known as the 'Bristol Blitz', and the damage done was immense.
