When I was a lad we had a branch of Woolworths in the High Street, Cleethorpes. It occupied a building that had formerly been a cinema (I'm not old enough to remember that though!) Honest!!
Woolworths then relocated to a new building across the road and the old cinema had a variety of uses after that. For a while it was an indoor market and then various sorts of wine bars etc.
I should have photographed it sooner but decided last year to record all the buildings in the High Street and they have appeared in a previous posting.
Over the last few months the J.D. Witherspoon group have been renovating the old cinema building and, in my opinion, have made a super job of re-creating how the old cinema might have looked in it's heyday.
I've put the latest images together with a couple of fairly recent ones to show how it has evolved.
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| Taken on the 5th Jan 2013 when it was a night club called "Amish" (Taken on a Panasonic FZ150.) |
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| Shortly after being taken over by J.D. Witherspoons on 30th April 2014. (Taken on a Panasonic G5.) |
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| Taken today (16/07/2014) now completed. (This and the following images taken on a Panasonic TZ40 compact) |
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| Detail at the top. |
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| The new owners have made a grand job of restoring this building, although it will be a night spot they have retained the original facade and, by renaming it "The Coliseum Picture Theatre", they've retained the integrity of the old cinema. |
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