A CAMPAIGN to save the facade of one of Liverpools most loved former cinemas has been launched.

The Futurist in Lime Street opened in 1912, but has sat empty and abandoned since it closed in 1982.

Numerous plans to renovate the building have since been and gone.

Its ground floor is boarded up, broken windows have left it exposed to the elements and bushes grow from cracks in the facade.

Lesley Mullally, who launched the campaign, said as Liverpools first purpose built and longest running cinema its impressive facade deserves to be preserved.

But it is not listed or in a conservation area and she fears without action the building could collapse and be lost forever.

An online petition calling on Liverpool council to take action has attracted more than 600 names in little more than a week.

The 34-year-old air hostess, who lives in Sefton Park, said:

I do not have any personal memories of going there, I was four when it closed.

Every time I got the bus into town and passed lime street I gazed at the splendour of the it.

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Liverpool Local News: Can a future be found for The Futurist cinema in Liverpool city centre?