| Lime Street - The Palais De Luxe |
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| | The Palais' site has been home to entertainment in Liverpool since 1847 |
This site on Lime Street has the longest history for entertainment in the city, dating back to l847. Over the years it became the Theatre Variete; St. James Hall and Operetta House; the Tivoli Palace of Varieties and the New Tivoli of Varieties, in December 1906, when Vesta Tilley laid the foundation stone. Pictures and vaudeville formed the entertainment until 1911 when the renamed Palais de Luxe showed "The World’s Greatest Pictures" with musical accompaniment. | Bryan Willis comments by e-mail: | I was browsing your site and Iremembered being told that the stainless steel montage of the cameraman which was on the wall of the Palais De Luxe, was in the technical college in riversdale road!
I don't know how true this is does anyone else know? |
In November l912, the Palais secured exclusive rights to show the film record of the sinking of the TITANTIC; and "singing and talking" pictures were included in the supporting programmes from as early as December l913. But the Palais de Luxe was in fact the last city centre cinema to show "talkies" - in August l930. The cinema was closed because of bombing in the war, and a serious fire in l951 caused massive damage. The re-opening saw the screening of Mario Lanza’s "The Great Caruso" on 6th November l952. After 51 years of entertainment, the Palais de Luxe finally closed its doors in October l959.
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