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Picture
Halls...."kin a go tae the pictures
Mammy?"
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PLAZA, 361Nuneaton Street
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Well this is where it used tae be !!
The first trees on the right as you enter Nuneaton Street is where the
Plaza stood.
11th. May 2002
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Extract from e-mail,
Jimmy Murphy, Glasgow, August 2002,
"I remember staying in Nuneaton
St....it was a very busy street. My uncle Charlie had the
cobblers shop there, we had a picture hall called The Plaza,
pubs, a cafe, butchers, bakers and naw
nae candlestick makers......"
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photo courtesy of © Gordon
Adams
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Dalmarnock Picture House,
361 Nuneaton Street
opened April 1922 by Samuael Gratton
It was renamed .....
The Plaza in Aug.1945
The doors closed for the last time 8 May 1959, it was then used as a
warehouse before being demolished in 1981.
(See website about surviving
cinemas)
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Photo of the old Plaza picture hall taken from Dalmarnock Rd looking into Nuneaton
Street.
Photograph below taken giving you the same view as the old
photograph.
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Jan.2003,
Extract from messageboard
Wit a great picture in the webmaster's cinema section of the Plaza, where I
went on Seturday efternin when I had seen the picture showing in the Geggie
on the previous night (having skipped in).
Can anyone remember the wee candyball shop which wis directly opposite that
sold candy lollies using rough wood lolly sticks, which gead ye splinters
oan yer tongue, they also sold puff candy which I wisnae to keen oan.
And wis thur no a railway just behind the pictures and you could hear the
sound of the trains when watching the picture.
And remember how you always got two pictures, the big and the wee wan,
followed by a cartoon, usually Donald Duck or Bugs Bunny, high culture
indeed eh!
And isn't it smashing when you see an old film on the telly like The Bowrey
Boys or Gunfight at OK Corral and you think 'I seen that in the Plaza!'
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Extract from guestbook, Mar.2003, Jim McFadyen,
Australia (email tba )
"married a lass from Nuneaton St we lived at No.327 in a
single end Mother in law was a usherette in the Plaza picture house
and the father in law was the charge hand in the Plaza Bar Thanks for the
memories"
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