The historic Sheffield cinema Adelphi will undergo a major transformation 58 years after it was closed as a cinema.
The Grade II listed building first opened in 1920 and for nearly 50 years it was used as a cinema until October 1967.
It had survived a bomb explosions during the Second World War and after it served its time as a cinema, it was opened as a Bingo hall which turned into a nightclub in 1995 for five years.
In 2013, the building was used as a storage facility and for decades it had a positive reputation within the local community.
The work on transforming the building back into a cinema will begin in Spring this year.
The transformation includes preserving its stunning exterior shell, and bringing it back into community use as a mixed-use space, comprising leisure, arts and music elements.
The Adelphi Cinema project forms part of a wider regeneration of Attercliffe including the building of 1,000 new homes at Attercliffe Waterside and the creation of the World-Class National Centre for Child Health Technology at Sheffield’s Olympic Legacy Park.
FULL CREDIT: Sheffield City Council
