The Abbeydale Picture Palace is Sheffield’s finest surviving suburban cinema, listed Grade II, and once again showing films and other entertainments while it awaits a full restoration.

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.

The Abbeydale Picture House:  Sheffield’s premier suburban cinema tells the history of a much-loved building, the people who worked there and the thousands whose lives were brightened by it from 1920 onwards.  It has 56 A5 pages in full colour.

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

To purchase, please click here, or send a cheque for £10.00 per copy payable to Mike Higginbottom at 63 Vivian Road, Sheffield, S5 6WJ.

Contact:  0114-242-0951 or 07946-650672 or mike@mikehigginbottominterestingtimes.co.uk