A Liverpool nightspot now reduced to rubble was a landmark in the city-centre for generations.
In August 1987, the Hippodrome nightclub and pub opened its doors in a former cinema on Lime Street. The former Scala cinema, which once boasted a luxurious Egyptian-style interior behind a classical façade, was a city landmark and opened in January 1916.
The Scala was the site that "brought talkies" films to Liverpool and was damaged in the 1941 Blitz and later rebuilt. In 1960 it became the city’s first “Continental” cinema showing foreign X certificate films.
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