Belfast Cinemas

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About Belfast Cinemas

Capturing images of Belfast Cinemas through the ages.

LIST OF BELFAST CINEMAS [up to 1985] (with alernative names) [subject to correction]:
Alhambra, North Street
Ambassador, Cregagh Road
Apollo, Ormeau Road
Arcadian, Albert Street
- West Belfast Picture Theatre
Astoria, Upper Newtownards Road
Broadway, Falls Road
Capitol, Antrim Road
Castle, Castlereagh Road
Central, Smithfield
Classic, Castle Lane
- Gaumont
Clonard, Falls Road
Coliseum, Grosvenor Road
- The Alexandra
- The Palladium
Crumlin, Crumlin Road
Curzon, Ormeau Road
Diamond, Falls Road
Duncairn, Duncairn Gardens
Electric Picture Palace, York Street
- Silver Cinema
Forum, Crumlin Road
Gaiety, North Street
Grand Opera House, Great Victoria Street
Hippodrome, Great Victoria Street
- Royal hippodrome
- Odeon
- New Vic
Imperial, Cornmarket
Kelvin, College Square East
- New Kelvin
- Mayfair
- News & Cartoons
- Classic
Kinema House, Great Victoria Street
Lido, Shore Road
Lyceum, Antrim Road/New lodge Road
Majestic, Lisburn Road
Midland, Canning Street
New Princess Palace, Newtownards Road
Princess Picture Palace, Newtownards Road
- Old Princess Palace
New York, York Street
Panopticon, High Street
Park, Oldpark Road
Belfast Picturedrome, Mount Pottinger
- The Picturedrome
Belfast picture House, Royal Avenue
- The Picture House
- Regent
- Avenue
- Popular, Newtownards Road
Queens, York Road
Queen’s Film Theatre, University Square Mews
- QFT
Regal, Lisburn Road
Ritz, Fisherwick Place
- ABC Belfast
- Cannon
Royal, Arthur Square
- New Royal Cinema
Sandro, Sandy Row
Savoy, Crumlin Road
Shaftesbury Pictoria, Shaftesbury Square
- Pictoria
Shankill Picturedrome, Shankill Road
Stadium, Shankill Road
Star, Church Street
St George’s Hall, High Street
Strand, Holywood Road
Tivoli, Christian Place
Tivoli, Upper Lisburn Road
- Gaumont
Troxy, Shore Road
- Grove
West end Picture House, Shankill Road
Willowfield, Woodstock Road
- Rex
Windsor, Donegall Road

Some cinemas had ‘nicknames’: Alhambra = Alabama; Arcadian = Arc; Castle = John Wayne’s Stable; Central = Smithfield Ritz; Clonard = Slieve Donard; Crumlin = The Ranch; Kelvin = Soldier’s Home; Lyceum = Likie; Popular = The Pop; Queens = The Cosy; Shankill Picturedrome = Wee Shankill or Little Joe McKibben; Willowfield = Winkie.