Description

Former Abbeydale Cinema, Sheffield (1984)

The Abbeydale Picture House is Sheffield’s finest surviving suburban cinema, listed Grade II, and beginning an exciting new chapter in its second century of entertaining Sheffielders.

It was designed by a Newcastle architect, Pascal J Steinlet, as a theatre as well as a cinema.  It has a generous stage with a fly tower, and the safety curtain is probably the only remaining cinema “iron” intact and in situ with period advertisements in the UK.

It opened in 1920 and closed in 1975, after which it was used as an office-equipment showroom, an amateur drama centre and a multipurpose community venue.

In 2025 the True North Brew Company Limited began a complete restoration of the Abbeydale Picture House as an entertainment and social venue.

To see sample pages of The Abbeydale Picture House: Sheffield’s premier suburban cinema, please click here.

If you prefer not to use the SumUp ‘Add to basket’ button above, please send a cheque for £10.00 per copy payable to Mike Higginbottom at 63 Vivian Road, Sheffield, S5 6WJ.

Contact phone-numbers are 0114-242-0951 or 07946-650672.