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Show Fullscreen Get back: Lidl announced plans to demolish the Abbey cinema earlier this month A historic art deco cinema in Liverpool has been saved from the wrecking ball just days after retail giant Lidl announced plans to demolish it. The Abbey Cinema, which was mentioned in the original draft of John Lennon’s classic Beatles song ‘In My Life’, was granted grade II protection by culture secretary Oliver Dowden after campaigners racked up more than 7,000 signatures in a last-minute petition to save it. Lidl announced its intention on 7 April to flatten the 1939 cinema, which was desi...

Source: Wavertree Society Liverpool’s 1939 Abbey cinema, latterly a supermarket, has been handed a Grade II listing, just days after retail giant Lidl revealed plans to demolish it and build a smaller store on the site The Moderne-style building, which closed as a cinema in 1979 and had been home to Co-operative store until last April, was a favourite childhood haunt of Beatles legends John Lennon and George Harrison. Advertisement Designed by Birkenhead architect Alfred Ernest Shennan, the ‘imposing brick and glass edifice’ is known to Beatles experts as one of the ‘places I rem...

Abbey cinema was one of John Lennon’s ’places I remember’ but was facing the wrecking ball

Wavertree picture palace set to be demolished for new Lidl is saved The Abbey Cinema has helped form part of the Wavertree skyline and the area's identity for decades Updated The former Abbey cinema on Church Road North Campaigners are celebrating after a former cinema which was set for demolition has been recommended for listed status by Historic England. Earlier this month supermarket chain Lidl announced their intention to tear down the former Abbey Cinema building on Church Road North in Wavertree, which was deemed to be "beyond economic repair." Lidl said they would be submitting plan...

A former cinema in Liverpool that gave John Lennon many “happy hours” has been saved from demolition thanks to a campaign by locals. The Abbey Cinema, built in 1939, has been granted grade II listed status by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden following calls to protect it from SAVE Britain’s Heritage and local residents group Love Wavertree. Lidl announced their plans to demolish the building and build a new store on April 7 2021, which prompted a backlash from residents and the heritage charity. A general view of the Abbey Cinema in Wavertree, Liverpool (Pete Byrne/PA) A petition created...