Ok.......nostalgia Time

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Hope you redirected her to Blackburnweb!

Sod of we're trying to get shut of him on there

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

I'll have you know there are some very sophisticated people on BW Wyn, there's me for a start, then Retlaw, Katex, but the biggest plus is there's no Mancie or comnstanley

[nannamavish]

Hi ithink the ritz was on church st. just pass j.g. barnes furniture shop i used to work there as a carpet fitter in 1954..please correct me if i am wrong.

[Jim Procter]

Noboby,s mentioned the Ritz and Empress in Clayton.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Jim Procter

Noboby,s mentioned the Ritz and Empress in Clayton.

Ok ... one was by the bridge over the cut, near the con club, I think ... and the other was up past the Load, opposite the chippy, which would make it the top end .... but I can't for the life of me remember which was which I think the Empire was the one by the bridge ... I remember watching cultural gems like "The Thing From Planet X" ... and I remember the going to watch "Rock Around the Clock" in the one by the Load. Also saw my first skin flick there, "Naked As Nature Intended" I think it was called. This was a great cinema: 3d on Saturdays for a cartoon, an oater, and the cliffhanger I also remember that it was referred to as the laugh and scratch ... similar to the bug hut, I guess. Oh, and you could whip out when it was slow and grab a bag of chips from across the road.

A different world, running down the street with your mac buttoned around your neck to look like Batman's cape ... I miss it sometimes. Must be getting old

[Alan Gilmartin]

Eric, it was the Star, ( later the Carlton ) next to the Load of Mischief, and the Empress, accross the road from the Commercial Pub. The chippy, accross the road from the Star, was Dora's then it was chan's, for great curry & chips with two fried eggs.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin

Eric, it was the Star, ( later the Carlton ) next to the Load of Mischief, and the Empress, accross the road from the Commercial Pub. The chippy, accross the road from the Star, was Dora's then it was chan's, for great curry & chips with two fried eggs.

Ok ... thanx .... I remember the chippy well .... I think I got in on the curry and chips thing ... but I can't remember the fried eggs bit

[alan7554]

dont forget the grand cinema on blackburn road great harwood on the corner of rushton street,also one in rishton on the corner of walmsley street and the high street near the walmsley arms

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by alan7554

dont forget the grand cinema on blackburn road great harwood on the corner of rushton street,also one in rishton on the corner of walmsley street and the high street near the walmsley arms

I know the one in Gt Harwood became a Bingo Hall Alan, because Fred Skinner had it in the 70/80s the Carlton as well at one time, he also had one near the Canal in Clayton, did a bit of work on both of them for Fred at some time

[Bob Dobson]

It is a litle known fact outside the town that all of Accrington's cinemas began with the letter 'T':-

Th'Odeon, th'Empire, t'Princess, t'Palace, t'Ritz and t'King's Hall.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

It is a litle known fact outside the town that all of Accrington's cinemas began with the letter 'T':- Th'Odeon

, th'Empire, t'Princess, t'Palace, t'Ritz and t'King's Hall.

Tha doesn't say

[Stephanie Wallace]

I used to go dancing down the Ritz-met a boy who owned 9 suits! He came from Blackburn, though!

[Stephanie Wallace]

Heyup, lad!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Stephanie Wallace

I used to go dancing down the Ritz-met a boy who owned 9 suits! He came from Blackburn, though!

Was actually 10 Stephanie and I didn't come from Blackburn

[janloot]

the pictures in ossy was the palace,rhyddings street where the shopfitters used to be, my doctor was on that street dr millar