Odeon Cinema Bolton

Pre the major demolition phase - February 2007

[@juliejames8531]

Omg I'm a Bolton lass used to go there as a kid on Saturday mornings and obviously later as I got older! Watched many films there from jungle book to jaws!!

[@bugsterboy79]

well done for capturing this before it was too late.

[@tiplady44]

Epic cinema in the 60s ,Had many a good meal,then enjoyed a movie with my late wife

[@Dave_Crewe]

Thanks for posting this. I remember arriving here in 1977 to see Star Wars, and seeing the biggest queue for a film that I had ever seen, right round the block!

[@LeShark75]

As a child my Father took me there to see my first cinema movie, that was Popeye 1980. Good god that's 30yrs ago. Nice vid.

[@neilharrison3187]

Hey my mum and dad took me same movie at odeon

[@jimsmethurst6113]

Odeon was high class. I always preferred the lido. Especially the gondola scene at the top of the screen. Does anyone remember the gem? My gran told me about it . Used to be near the henan st baths. Also used to play around the mount , in mount st. Sadly, all gone now.

[@JoelEverettComposer]

Welcome to the idiots that run our towns now-a-days. My home town tore down their 1928 atmospheric theatre and put up.... NOTHING, but a parking lot. Wow.. how freaking uplifting.. a parking lot. Art, craftmanship, history, grandeur .. gone! I feel your pain my good friend.

[@JohnB28]

I remember going to Saturday morning matinees when I was kid. How sad to see it's gone.

[@firksyyyyy]

can anyone get any footage of the cannon cinema before that got pulled down?

[@doctorwho3]

Tragic loss of our history. We are about to lose our 'Odeon' (now film center St.Austell)after 71 years, the most magnificent art deco building I have seen, to make way for a new shopping development and 'lego brick' cinema.

[@trailersic]

That's a truly insane number of people for one screen, the average largest screen in a multiplex is around 500

[@PaulyPearly]

Watched E.T and Tron there haha.....

[@ButterflyRebellion1]

just love the art-deco frontage, a bit like the Morcambe Odeon or the Olympia in Todmorden.

[@gordonl]

It's "Bless This House" by (Our) Gracie Fields. One from out of the attic!

[@firksyyyyy]

does anybody know if theres any footage of the old cannon cinema before it got pulled down?

[@neilharrison3187]

Yeah there is go to - Lido comes down.

[@leadfrog1]

They are replacing it with an 11-storey hotel and building a new cinima in Church Wharf.

[@keithmolyn]

well unfortunatly i managed to film it when it was being demolished and i also filmed the last film to be shown at cannon(abc) bradshawgate from inside the cinema which was casablanca.

[@neilharrison3187]

Lido,cannon studio 1 ,2 ,3

[@neilharrison3187]

One of the best projectionists I had the pleasure to work with.

[@stannyjoe]

What a bloody shame. Beautiful building flattened. Great Pity:-(

[@Gardnersparadise]

Slowly slowly the heart of Bolton has been ripped out. For what???

[@jimmyg34567]

@gordonl to name a few , it was great in them days

[@GeraldParchester]

They' are not fanatical about film anymore... Just profit. Not enough people attend anymore, since TV's in the 1960's . This side of showbiz will disappear in the next ten years... Even the multiplexes... The filmmakers will go to Netflix like Disney have. The glory days of special lighting and curtains are gone forever...

[@Daseiserneskreuz]

Bolton Council... You should be ashamed of yourselves... Why on earth did you demolish this fine building?

[@mrbigm5720]

Lately looking at a lot of Bolton that's missing, I don't get why they have demolished this and meny other buildings. We hear the same excuses from town Hall di#k heads it's unsafe or cost to much to run or to much to repair cut backs is the new one they like to us

[@angelsone-five7912]

A crying shame, there`ll be just nothing left of this era soon.

[@KSJLM9295]

This is now nothing but empty land, I think a hotel or some sort of large building will take its place.

[@samtron2000]

@khan300892. What did you think it was??? A hospital!!! Bloody Nora

[@gordonl]

From my research I discovered that Jimmy Hendrix and Roy Orbison played there.

[@ihtiandrus777]

@gordonl thats where i am going:P

[@neilharrison3187]

Absolute Sacrilege !!! 😬