ODEON AFTER THE FIRE IN RUINS. HARTLEPOOL

[@alananderson9526]

neglected ... abandoned....and now just a memory..........Saturday morning pictures in the 60's and Bruce Lee's films in the 70's.........great memories........

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

Such a shame

[@borocat]

Strange how all these abandoned buildings In Hartlepool and Seaton suddenly burst into flames

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

It’s a town phenomenon lol

[@philswales3814]

Wow!

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

Bad isn’t it.

[@philswales3814]

@@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff very.

[@granto6738]

So sad , seen most 007 films there ❤great memories loved it when it was c place 😢

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

I loved it too

[@jenlovesbooks]

Memories of going there to see Star Wars, Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sound of Music, plus the memorable afternoon I took my youngest brother to see Disney's Incredible Journey. At the final scene all the kids in the cinema were jumping up and down cheering and I was practically on the floor in tears. Best ending of a film, ever. 😂. Sad to see the old building in such a state even though it had already been allowed to become an eyesore. Am I correct in thinking that piece of green grass next door was a shop that also went up in flames years ago?

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

There used to be a shop called “Tan your Hide” or something like that. A leather shop

[@darenmulvihill488]

You mean Razuls bargain store on the grass, went up in 1985 I think, Tan ya hide was the leather shop which was part of the building

[@jenlovesbooks]

@@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff No, that was on the little row of 3 shops that are still attached to the side of the Odeon. At 0.55 seconds into your film the right hand side of the screen shows the much lower part of the Odeon building where Tan Ya Hide was. On the left hand side of the screen is the green area where the shop I'm thinking about was. The front of the shop was on York Road. I remember it sold cheap fashionable clothes.

[@jenlovesbooks]

@@darenmulvihill488 Yes, that was it.

[@kentimlin5939]

Any one able to fly inside ?

[@nomis3563]

I had many a Saturday morning in there, it was always packed full of screaming exited kids me included, you would put them seats up and bang on the seat with your feet before the show started great memories, sadly now gone, I hope they keep the freeze of the front of the theatre and put it somewhere, you know the sandstone one above the main entrance, goodbye, my memories I have still got ❤️

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

Same here. I loved Saturday mornings there

[@carpii]

Another shady insurance claim, just like what happened to Wesley Chapel

[@johnrees]

The simple answer is ........ don`t pay out any money to anybody or company conected to the ownership of the building ........ that`l get em thinking.

[@tonypaddler]

Yup, I'd bet my bottom Euro on it being a matchbox and petrol job.

[@LeNoob-m8k]

there's this care home that set on fire a few months ago, was that an insurance claim or

[@carpii]

@@LeNoob-m8k you mean this one? "Fire at former Hartlepool care home is ‘believed to be deliberate’"

[@mrlittlemouse1]

Just kids having fun

[@headland4440]

A crying shame, another once beautiful building gone, a once part of nearly every Poolies childhood. Could have been made into some beautiful apartments.

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

It does seem a shame

[@LeNoob-m8k]

which street is this on, I'm tryna find it on Google maps

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

Dent street

[@reahuntley507]

It is actually on Raby Road but if I remember right the York road ran to a give way junction just past the entrance to the Odeon. They changed the road layout to its present layout around the 1990’s

[@reahuntley507]

If you go on Hartlepool now and then you will see how the cinema was before the road change. The picture is from the Hartlepool library service

[@Bishoptutu-888]

Gutted, I went to see "confessions of a window cleaner" there when I was 15 :(

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

But what was the last movie to be shown there ?

[@Bishoptutu-888]

@@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff Cannonball Run 1980

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

@@Bishoptutu-888 Yes indeedy

[@David-ke2tx]

Can remember going here when it was ceasars Palace

[@johnfraser4675]

The shop that used to stand on the vacant patch of land to the left of the Odeon was built as one of the town's earlier Co-operative stores I believe, before being sold later in its life to become a clothing and fabric store - destroyed in a fire back in the 1980's.

[@TheQueste]

i used to love ceasers palace. lots of fond memories there

[@David-ke2tx]

@johnfraser4675 if I remember it was called razzles or something along them lines

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

Thanks for the info everyone

[@johnmcque1034]

Yes, the grass was formerly a shop ran by an indian guy, I forget him name, he fired it himself but his insurance company didn’t pay out.

[@David-ke2tx]

If my memory is correct I'm sure the shop was called razzles or something alike

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

Was he prosecuted

[@josephdixon629]

Sad but if it stops it being turned into a mosque or accommodation for immigrants then it didn’t die in vain 😢😢

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

Don’t you like Muslims and migrants?

[@mrlittlemouse1]

@@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff I can't stand migrants they should not be here. Muslim if its practiced properly isn't a problem but building mosques and praying in public is down to the old its my country and my rights to do what I want. No wonder people turn racist

[@dplomin1954]

Very suspicious. I hope the authorities really investigate this for possible arson and how much it was insured for and how recent the policy was taken out and if was increased recently. All obvious questions, but still. Sometimes no one asks. There was a vintage bowling alley in Chicago that burned down a few years back after a supposed million dollar renovation. No sprinkler system put in. Odd. Supposed started after hours by a “faulty microwave” in the bar. After hours. No follow up story on fraud.

[@granto6738]

Wilkoz 😂

[@nomis3563]

Our pathetic council could have done this years ago and brought it back to life, but no set fire to it like all the other buildings in Hartlepool, our council aren't worth the sh**e of my shoes you have let this town go to ruins 🤬

[@emceedoctorb3022]

@@nomis3563Same as every council in the country. All of them run by jumped up petty little bureaucrats with overinflated opinions of their abilities and worth. Arrogant minor public functionaries who think they know what is best for us and reuse to listen to the people who put them in power. Corrupt busybodies with their noses firmly in the public trough. Just look at what they have done to Redcar with the godawful Beacon and the new Regent cinema that cost north of £10m and they forgot to put the popcorn stand in! Or Stockton with the Globe that so far has cost £33m and will never make its money back and the shopping centre to be knocked down and replaced with a park nobody wanted at a massive cost to the tax payer. Or just the absolute state of Middlesbrough.

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

I’m sure it’s being investigated

[@TheSilverFoxDoesStuff]

I’m sure it’s being investigated