This is the Woolton cinemas projection room looking towards the spiral staircase. The framed portrait hanging on the wall in the distance is that of Elvis Presley, Its a bit of a mystery as to who hung it up but it has probably been around since the days when John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met just a few feet away in St Peters church next door and it has since always been considered Taboo to ever remove the portrait.
Some more photos of the two Westrex projectors and matching peerless lamp houses, although made by the same company one of the lamp houses is English and the other one is American. The oldest part of this configuration is actually the base stands and support legs holding up the lamp house and projector at the required angle to project the film to the screen down at the bottom of the hill on which the cinema stands.
Hardly surprising that the Woolton is sometimes referred to as Liverpools very own cinema Paradiso.The old rewind bench (nowadays used mainly for advert and trailer editing) which also looks very much like a back drop from the Stella Artois film on 4 early tv commercial.
