Stafford Cinema - ups & downs.

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Mad Cat Woman

bunique

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Police outside there just now, one of the doors pitched open and another gent looking quite stressed (albeit next to a nice car which I assume is his!). Can’t be much left in there to steal you would have thought so don’t know if it’s damage, squatters or something else. Such a big building to be left to fall apart.
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
Didn't someone buy this and do up a bit of it, opening one screen fir kids films in the holidays etc? I'm sure he posted on here...
 

bunique

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Didn't someone buy this and do up a bit of it, opening one screen fir kids films in the holidays etc? I'm sure he posted on here...
It was running quite well as a cinema I think - they did quite a bit of work including new heating and sound If I remember rightly. Was much cheaper than the odeon! But the new projectors failed and I think that plus the hit of covid did for them.
 

bunique

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Who's he/she/it when they're at home??
Lou runs the Macari homeless centre in Hanley now, 50 pods (with numbers on so people have an address for completing any official forms, applying for benefits, housing, etc) with washing and laundry facilities. It’s a great facility (though I’m not sure it’s nearest neighbours necessarily agree) but as far as I know has bugger all to do with Stafford cinema :D
 

SketchyMagpie

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Honestly, having worked there for a year when it was the Apollo, it's much better served as shelter for the homeless than as a modern cinema given that the manager once made us carry someone in their wheelchair up the stairs due to the lack of disabled access.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Honestly, having worked there for a year when it was the Apollo, it's much better served as shelter for the homeless than as a modern cinema given that the manager once made us carry someone in their wheelchair up the stairs due to the lack of disabled access.
When I saw the Anti-Nowhere League, upstairs in Redrum, there were a couple of very impressive "mobility improvisations", to get people up the stairs - which are quite a challenge for the non-impaired.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Am I hearing it right that it's opening again as a music venue?

EDIT: I mean, I heard unofficially last week, but one of the people I hear is involved has now posted it to FB.
 

The Hawk

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The cinema is available, on eBay, as a model, as it was in its Odeon days:
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