Best British Urbex channel on KZfaq. You show care and respect. No obnoxious idiots. Beautiful camera work and attention to details. I feel your passion for the architecture and history in the buildings you visit.Thank you 😊

Weatherspoons when they inevitably purchase & convert the building: "The projection booth will be the perfectly inconvenient room for the toilets"

I watched this video and instantly realised I've been here lots of times! I used to go here with friends to play bingo years ago... its the Mecca Bingo in Southport Merseyside. It was a magnificent building, had no idea it had closed :(

Lost count of the times I said "f**king hell" while watching this. What an amazing place and such a shame to see it abandoned. Very sad.

Fantastic explore! This place is pristine. Hopefully it will be preserved! 😁

Great film. So sad to see such a beautiful building abandoned. I imagine all the ghosts of people who once had fun times there. It's a sign of the times sadly. So much of our City centres have never recovered from being closed. Hopefully the place will once again ring with the sounds of people having fun. All that detail has been saved , should be a listed building.

I hope it's kept and reused without too much modernisation what a beauty that is.

Another cinema, which ended up as a bingo hall..like many did from the late 60s..still intact, in many ways, there is always the chance it could be brought back to it`s original use as a cinema, or maybe it was also a theatre as well during its lifetime..The Plaza in Stockport suffered the fate, and around 1998 a group of people got together, to form a charitable trust, approached the council, and the venue was saved, and re-opened as a theatre in 2000, now 24 yrs later it is still functioning as one of the few Art-Deco super cinema/theatres in the country, complete with Compton organ, which has remained in situ since 1932, and is played often.and the venue shows films and has live shows throughout the year..playing host to many well known comedians, and stars who return when on tour..and to anyone who watches Talking Pictures channel, the organ you see in between programmes is the Plaza in Stockport, and the 1932 organ.,

We had three similar in Chester. The Gaumont, ABC, and Odeon where I saw Towering Inferno in the 70's. Odeon since converted into a venue called Storyhouse. Just out of interests who owns the building and pays the electric bills.

Brilliant as always guys

Amazing building!

Wow, beautiful retro vibes. Thanks for sharing

Hi guys! Brilliant explore. So much to see. Hope plans to reuse and reopen go ahead!

Thanks for sharing this beautiful building. Obviously has a grand history. We can only hope this gorgeous place can see life and laughter again.

Great video guys and the Art Deco details are absolutely beautiful

Great video lads and loved that since its modernisation for bingo that some of the Art Deco features were kept.

Best visual you have done so far 🎉🎉🎉

Incredible explore this lads. So annoying that we lose this history so easily. Keep doing what you’re doing, it’s vital documentation.

What you called a spotlight in the projection room was actually a Brenograph used to project slides and coloured effects.

Amazing place guys . Great content very informative and interesting

It’s good that you caught this early and in a good condition. I dread to think of it decaying away over years or demolished. Great video.

your work is a look back at social history and building design that might or will be lost , keep the good work going

Wow! Amazing explore. The place is in such fantastic condition. Big thumbs up 😊👍.

that is an original projector room, it is not converted but it is complete with stations for the projectors, the lamphouses are still present, the rectifiers for the projector lamps, film rewinders and boxes for the reels that place is a cinema.

Really enjoyed this video. Intelligently done. Was it not possible to visit back stage and the dressing rooms? That would have been very interesting.

Best explorer channel on YT

Epic explore super building which could be refurbished easily into a public useful place 😊

Stunning building and great explore - hopefully the theatre is a listed building external and internet- it should be protected.

Honestly seeing any venue in this state breaks my heart. But this one seems like a reasonable savlage given that so little has gone south. I hope she is grade listed and the proposals work out for her. To see so much of the original features still in tact was incredible, especially given that most conversions arent sympathetic to archetecture or history.

A long time ago, Southport was the UK’s most visited seaside town. It had over 30 railway stations. Blackpool soon overtook it though and it continued to do better in the motorist era as you have a proper motorway going to it unlike Southport which has to be reached via crowded A roads

The auditorium really reminds me of Troxy in London!

A great video showing some hidden beauties

England must have went mental for bingo at one stage as there is loads of these old theatre conversions dotted about everywhere

AWH what a shame

Love

You should explore the central hall in Birmingham. It’s a beautiful old building derelict and rotting away. So sad.

Loved this explore ! Eerie how all the lights are still on. Wonder what will become of this structure? Hopefully not flats !

I've explored quite a few cinemas and I've never seen the bio cabin located in the roof like that. It is usually located at the back of the dress circle/ lounge.

Another great vlog guys, U people are Awsome, Lads please come to India🇮🇳 I will show u really big abandoned places. Specialy a Graveyard of Officers from east India Company that was built in 1849

class shit as always lads🔥

Another super video guys. Are all the lights on permanently or do you switch them on for filming ?

So easy to convert back into a concert venue, with so many tribute acts etc I’m sure it would be financially viable 🤔

I wonder how much of the fly system and rigging is still in place above that false ceiling on the stage.

Did you have to turn on the buildings power or was it on when you entered?

not surprised it was like that only a month after it closed. What does it look like NOW in Mid 24?

That looks so much like the Apollo Victoria that it's actually a bit disconcerting.

Surprised the power is still on. Someone must still be paying the bill.

I’m glad you kept the location secret! For obvious reasons 👍 MINT👌

They had two projectors so they could swap reels

Yes Those Boxes would have been used for bingo this is why the table is in there

Temple to a better world of distraction, thank you.

Are the lights always on? Or did you guys turned on every light?

WoW to inside and out, what a building, it should be forced to be grade 1 or 2 minimum and a no withered spoons either clause. Never been to this town but what a brilliant area. Thanks Ubandoned peeps

Where is this?

12:31- Martini anyone?

8:38 Your double projectors were the minimum required of course for films longer than what fits on a standard reel. If you know about the phantom black dot flasher ... please skip to the end... whose briefs appearance in each and every single movie ever shown on literally each and every silver screen on earth no matter where it may be, with not a flicker of concern to be seen from the flea pit, the sticky floored right on up to the most imperially monolithic Empire on a Saturday night with you and your gal done up to the nines. Flight of fancy there sorry just building the picture. Anyway what follows will be one of those once witnessed, never missed again annoyances. In the last couple of minutes of the first film reel in the top right corner of the screened image there's a short formation of blink and you'll miss 'em black ink spots over time ending with a bigger jet black disc. This is every projectionist's nightmare because it means press play on the next reel's projector NOW! That's why there's always two projectors: to ensure a seamless showing of a film.

How come all the lights are on? 😮 Who's paying for the leccy??

I thought this was a Mecca Club the carpet give it away for me

Secret location.

Great video, but no need to blur things out

Damn...projectors crafted in London. They're probably not worth a great deal, but they're very cool!

Doe's not really look abandoned. Nice and clean. Electric still on.?

I believe the building is going to be restored, and converted into a hotel and event space (saving the auditorium yay), if this is the place I think it is :/

Preservation order???

It needs turning into Xanadu

How sad. No Weyherdpoons please.

I call foul on this one!!..... ALL the lights still on, security systems working...... This one was a set up and planned with the owners.

Amazing…any reason why you haven’t said where exactly it’s located?

Looks like either Buzz bingo or Gala Edit its Mecca

Mecca bingo hall

abandoned Theatre,Any one want to watch a Movie,It be free after been closed down

Just like the one by me that closed down. Now a spoons.

Gooid explore

what's the point "documenting" a place and blurring out half of it ?

Abandoned ?? NOT!! it's in transition - between owners .. Why call it Abandoned .. Click bate af !! Unsubbed ..