Grosvenor Picture Palace Grosvenor Picture Palace The Grosvenor Picture Palace, now known as the Footage, is a former cinema and current pub at the corner of Grosvenor Street and Oxford Road in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, United Kingdom. Built in 1913–15, it was the largest cinema outside London in its day. It is now a Stonegate pub. The Grosvenor Picture Palace was designed in 1913 by Percy Hothersall (who later designed Manchester's first supercinema, The Piccadilly, off Piccadilly Gardens in 1922). It is located at the corner of Grosvenor Street and Oxford Road in Chorlton-on-Medlock. The cinema opened on 19 May 1915, featuring Blanche Forsythe
Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds film critic Mark Kermode has hosted several question and answer sessions. Kermode is a "champion" of the Picture House, describing it in his book "The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex", as "a beauty; a proper old-fashioned picture palace" with a clientele that are "enthusiastic, attentive and apparently more interested in films than in their mobile phones". The Hyde Park Picture House has been used as a backdrop in many films and TV programmes, including the feature-length TV drama "A Is for Acid", the Vanessa Redgrave film "Wetherby" and the two-part BBC One TV film "The Great Train Robbery". It