Woolton Picture House

The music of Mantovani plays before the main programme and in the traditional halfway interval, during which ice cream can be bought from usherettes.

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic led to the closure of the establishment, but a crowd-funding effort on Go Fund Me has raised £20,000, and has since became a landmark for people in Liverpool and citizens of Woolton and the owners have suspended redundancies whilst they evaluate the availability of grants from the BFI and other sources.

1938 - 45 - Remaining open throughout the war years, surviving the bombing raids of WW2, the cinema provided the local community a vital window to the front line, courtesy of Pathé newsreel.

1958 - The onset of a fire at the front of the screen drastically altered the cinema, almost destroying the public area of the Auditorium.

2009 - Woolton Picture House become the set for the film Nowhere Boy, a biopic of John Lennon's adolescence and the creation of his first band The Quarrymen and its evolution into the Beatles.