muddycoffee Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Lovely thanks :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Link amended in opening post Lovely thanks That's the job of the "link fairies" Stuart is a "link fairy", otherwise known as a "Sheffield History Admin" who has the powers to do these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 ABC Cinema - Sheffield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 ABC Cinema - Sheffield Both of the advertised films, "The twilight zone" and "Monty Python's the meaning of life" were released in 1983, so this should date the picture fairly closely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 Definitely one of the most loved cinemas in Sheffield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Just a little footnote about why Sensurround never caught on. Apart from the expense of fitting cinemas out for it. The new multiplex theatres started taking off. And with the vibrations it spoilt the enjoyment of people in the other theatres when the other was playing a film in Sensurround. Some of the cinemas even suffered damage, with tiles falling off the walls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLongden Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 11 hours ago, History dude said: Just a little footnote about why Sensurround never caught on. Apart from the expense of fitting cinemas out for it. The new multiplex theatres started taking off. And with the vibrations it spoilt the enjoyment of people in the other theatres when the other was playing a film in Sensurround. Some of the cinemas even suffered damage, with tiles falling off the walls! Look like it's making a comeback though, but this time it's more about active seats than jellifying your insides with ultra-bass subwoofers? (see link below) 4DX - Be in the movie! My enduring memory of the ABC was queuing in that covered alleyaway up the side of Schofields, in an endless line of impatient cinemagoers, all hoping to be let through the barrier for the next showing. It also reeked up there, as I think it doubled as a late night urinal for those rendered incontinent by alcohol and couldn't make it to the lavs in the Hole-in-the-Road nearby? My cinemagoing days were mid-70's to late-80's and in that time, we had the choice of: Abbeydale Picture House, Abbeydale Road (went once to see original Planet of the Apes, but had to dodge the lumps of plaster, falling on your head) ABC, Angel Street (probably most frequented and memorable) Cineplex 123 Charter Square (arty-farty stuff - never went) Cinecenta Pond Street Levels (got in once (under-age) to see a Bruce Lee movie) Gaumont, Barkers Pool (know i went, but no enduring memory of the place) Rex Cinema, Mansfield Road, Intake (Saturday morning matinee, straight off the 32 bus from Woodhouse, if skint, could squeeze in through the bog window in the car park) Studio 5, 6 & 7, Wicker (Ooer missus!) UCI, Crystal Peaks (just moved back out there as it was closing) Loads more, past and present here to go at,which may bring back some fond memories? Movie Theatres (aka 'Cinema', 'Pictures', 'Flicks') in Sheffield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 The Rex was the first cinema I ever went into: my Dad took me to see 'The Great Locomotive Chase' and I went there several times afterwards, at first with Dad and later with my friend. I am sorry to see that it has been demolished. I also went sometimes to the Manor, whose building I am pleased to see survives, and to one of the city centre cinemas - perhaps the Gaumont or the Odeon or maybe both. I think one of them was near the City Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieH Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 That picture of the ABC brings back memories of Saturday morning chidrens films. It must have been around the early 1980s when I started going, I recall they did a science fiction 'season' and it was really something to look forward to after a boring week at school. Ah, the days before video players. My mum would leave me at the cinema and go shopping, then collect me afterwards for lunch in Schofields next door. Happy days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted September 3, 2017 Author Share Posted September 3, 2017 On 11/12/2016 at 20:20, JamieH said: That picture of the ABC brings back memories of Saturday morning chidrens films. It must have been around the early 1980s when I started going, I recall they did a science fiction 'season' and it was really something to look forward to after a boring week at school. Ah, the days before video players. My mum would leave me at the cinema and go shopping, then collect me afterwards for lunch in Schofields next door. Happy days. Never went in Schofields but was at Saturday Morning Picture Club every week! Welcome to the site by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sonia Saif Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Remember see Oliver here in 1968 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popadodge Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Remember seeing EXORCIST there around 74 and there were church people outside asking you not to go in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 I seem to remember that in the early years the ABC had an organ at the front which rose up for organist to play during intermissions etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S24 Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 On 15 October 2017 at 16:22, Sonia Saif said: Remember see Oliver here in 1968 I’m afraid you’ve got your theatres mixed up,Sonia. The original Road-Show presentation of “Oliver!” played at the Odeon (Flat St) from Dec. 22nd,1967 to March 8th, 1968. It was the last of the Odeon’s Road-Shows,before that theatre swapped places with the re-vamped Gaumont. Playing at the ABC at that time was “Camelot” - which opened on Dec.17th,1967 and ran until Jan 27th, 1968. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S24 Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 On 16 October 2017 at 08:35, johnm said: I seem to remember that in the early years the ABC had an organ at the front which rose up for organist to play during intermissions etc. It did have an organ,John....but, I don’t think it rose up. It was static, down at the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
History dude Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 I remember the plush carpets that your feet sank into. But those seats! I think they were designed to make your bum sore!! While watching Jaws there I banged my knee on the back of one of those chairs pictured above during the scene where the head drops out of the bottom of the boat! Are those grids below the screen air conditioning, or heaters, or something to do with the sound system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnm Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 On 17/10/2017 at 19:18, S24 said: It did have an organ,John....but, I don’t think it rose up. It was static, down at the front. Hi S24, Thanks for photo. At least I was right that there was an organ! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted October 21, 2017 Author Share Posted October 21, 2017 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted March 30, 2020 Author Share Posted March 30, 2020 Photo of the demolotion of the ABC Cinema on Angel Street. Photo also shows The Boardwalk music venue and pub on the right hand side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Photo looks like someone changing the movie titles and information outside the ABC cinema on Angel Street. You can also see the Mucky Duck/Boardwalk just behind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 Who remembers queuing up the tunnel to the left hand side of the main doors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 The ABC Cinema on Angel Street, Sheffield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffield History Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 Who remembers the ABC Minors Saturday Morning Picture Club? Every Saturday morning at the ABC Cinema on Angel Street, hundreds of kids would queue in the tunnel up the side of the cinema waiting to go in, all excited about their Saturday morning's fun coming up. Once inside everyone was welcomed by the cinema manager who would be up on stage with a microphone calming down the excited children of the ABC Minors Club. There would be a couple of films shown with a smaller shorter movie usually from the childrens foundation, and then a main feature. There would also be the singing of the ABC Minors song that would come on, with the words on the screen, and the kids would sing along at the top of their voices. HAPPY BIRTHDAYS AT THE ABC MINORS CLUB The manager would also call children up on stage who's birthday it was to receive a gift and have the happy birthday song sang to them by the packed cinema. I went up a few times, some of the times it was actually my real birthday but not often! (they never caught on) ABC Minors Club Badge The kids would also have an ABC Minors Club Saturday Morning Picture Show badge (above) ABC Minors Saturday Morning Picture Club Membership Card Every child would have their own ABC Minors picture club membership card that you used to cherish as a kid, although these would often get lost or roughed up a bit! Happy times and no adults allowed only children all there to have fun Does anyone else remember being an ABC Minor Saturday Morning Picture Club member? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poacher Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Went to the ABC MINORS every Saturday morning for Flash Gordon (still have nightmares about the 'clay men') and cartoons and if it was your birthday you took your birthday card up on stage (can't remember what the reward was) I believe the adult in the pictures was Uncle Charlie?? My friend took an old battered birthday card up there for weeks. They also sold individual badges with letters on them, if you had the whole set it spelled A B C M I N O R S. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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