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Re: The Empire.
The Palace in Rhyddings Street was used as St. Paul's Church Hall for a number of years after it closed as a cinema. The four houses now on the site were built about the mid-80s. I remember Dr. Millar's surgery very well. He never spent much on the decor. The same wallpaper was on for about 30 years, also the orange plastic chairs were there for ages. There were no appointments then. Surgery was morning and evening. There was no receptionist. You sat in the waiting room till he buzzed. If the waiting room was full you stood in the corridor. If the corridor was full you stood on the path outside. Everybody always got seen, though not necessarily for long! Dr. Millar and family used to live in the house next door. Then in the late 50s they had a new house built on Dene Bank Road near the park and he turned his old house into a nursing home.
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