Wasn't there one called 'The Regal' too?
cinemas
- Thread starter beechy
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thats news to me, would be interested to know if there was,before my time n that takes some doing.
Somebody mentioned the name at the last AccyWeb meet and it rang a bell with me.
Think the Odeon was originally called the Regal. Before my time, but I'm sure I've seen a photo of it somewhere.
that could well be the answer? as for a picture house anywhere else,cant for the life of me think.
Just remembered where I've seen it...it's on Atarah's site.
I'm sure it was, but it is well before my time too.
There is a picture of the Regal Cinema in the Gallery....under the Category Old Accrington.
i remember going to the empire cinema in
oswaldtwistle it was then turned into a dance place
i think
I have been reliably informed by 'an old fogey' that The Regal was indeed the one which was renamed The Odeon which then became The Classic.
i remember going to the empire cinema in
oswaldtwistle it was then turned into a dance place
i think
It was. We had a thread about it earlier this year.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f103/empire-28841.html
no i meant the the cinemaI used to work at Shifters. Never saw a ghost.
, i would have loved to have seen it, but then the punters in shifters looked half dead anyway
It was supposed to be upstairs at the cinema wasn't it? I remember going up some stairs and along a corridor for a party there when I was very young, before there ever was a Shifters, when it was all the same building belonging to the cinema.
yeh thats what i heard, always sat upstairs n never encountered it though.it must have had more sense.
Good old Ron Wycherley, I liked him. There's a statue of him in Liverpool. Last Summer it was being stored, along with some other artwork, at the back of one of the museums but it was due to go back on display when alterations were finished by the docks
Way, way back, the Hippodrome Theatre was across the road from those two cinemas. I remember Frank Randle buying the Hippodrome, I saw a few plays and pantomimes there, but I don't think it lasted very long.
hii think the hippodrome was on the street that led down to the bus
depot dont know the name of the street
the fair ground was always on the spare ground at the bottom
and i think the accy pals signed on there
slightly out westender,the hippodrome was down the street where the bus depot was,the back of it was on ellisons tenement.
oops we musta wrote that together beechy lol