Title

ABC Cinema, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, City of Bristol, 1997. Creator: Norman Walley.

Caption

ABC Cinema, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, City of Bristol, Aug 1997-Sep 1997. The corner entrance and tower of the ABC Cinema, formerly the Whiteladies Picture House, from the south. The Whiteladies Picture House opened in 1921. The building incorporates an earlier terraced house, and formerly also included a ballroom and restaurant which were later converted into a public house and offices. The cinema was renamed the ABC, Cannon, and then MGM Cinema, before reverting to the ABC name in the 1990s. The cinema was briefly used as a gym in the early 21st century, before reopening as the Everyman Cinema in 2016.

Date

1997

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM22A68_056

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,2Mb (2,4Mb) / 12,1in x 18,7in / 3630 x 5603 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors road building England architecture arts country entertainment tower art British English color entrance cinema location century Art Deco Britain Bristol twenties Nineties Colour 1920s 20th century 1990s decade TGN outside photograph Historic England Norman Walley Walley Norman way in ABC Cinema Whiteladies Picture House Whiteladies Road