MABLETHORPE Lincs

Beach Pavilion  f., J. T. Robinson (1907)

DUNES THEATRE  Central Promenade  Opened 1960s. Now described as Family Entertainment Centre
EMPIRE High Street Opened June 1914. Prop. Arthur Bradford. 250 seats – one raked tier. 1922: Francis A. Brad­ford, managing director & Res. Man. One show nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices, 4d. to 1S. Phone, Mable­thorpe 11. Station, Mablethorpe, G.N.R. Closed late 20s. Now amusement arcade.

FITZWILLIAM CINEMA  High Street/Fitzwilliam Street        Opened c.1922. 200 seats. KYB31 - Prop Mrs. A. (Jean) Voce. Closed 1930 – no sound.

LOEWEN / BIJOU CINEMA   Quebec Road  Opened 10^th July 1981 – For Your Eyes Only. Prop. James Green. 264 seats – one raked tier. 1982 – Hill organ installed (1^st cinema organ since Hull Cecil (2)). Leased to John Calvert 1985. Sold c.1989 to Charles Bradley. Closed 1994. Sold 1995 – Judy & Henry Howell – re-named. Twinned 1998. 2002 – to Curzon circuit, Loughborough. February 2004: To Marc Earl & Debbie Spriggs. 4 screens. 2006: Doors open daily from 2pm, 3.30pm, 7.30pm, and 8.30pm

LYRIC / ELECTRIC PALACE  George Street Opened 1926. Props., George Williams & A. Moore. 380 seats. Bingo.

PIE-in-HAND CINEMA High Street              Café conversion. ?16mm. No sound. KYB31 – Prop. William Jackson

VICTORIA CINEMA Victoria Road  1937: (B.T.H.) Prop., B. Moore. 350 seats. 1941: (BTH) - Prop., A. H. Moore, Hillvue, Sutton-on-Sea. Phone Sutton-on-Sea 70. 750 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 24ft. Phone Mablethorpe 66. Station, Mablethorpe, L.N.E.R.

VICTORIA PAVILION Seacroft Road  Closed by bomb 1943. Demolished 1948. Coach yard & garage.

 

MACCLESFIELD Cheshire

CINEMAC Heritage Centre  Converted Sunday school. Occasional films in 2006.

Drill Hall  Sergt. Norton (1907)

HIPPODROME Bendon & Larder (1907)

Macclesfield Super Cinema Co. Ltd.; office, 76 Derby street, Macclesfield

MAJESTIC PICTURE HOUSE 95 Mill Street  Opened 1922. By 1937 J. Brennan circuit. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Macclesfield Majestic Picture House, Ltd. Stanley Bamford Higginbotham, manager. 1,022 seats. Booked at Hall. Con­tinuous. Mon. to Fri., two shows Sat. Mats. Mon., Wed, and Sat. Occasional Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. 4d. Café attached, Phone 2412. Station, Macclesfield, L.M.S. Closed 1998.

NEW CINEMA / SUPER CINEMA Buxton Road  1922 - Prop., Maccles­field Electric Cinemas, Ltd. Res. Man., A. H. Diggle. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Phone, Macclesfield 265. Station, Macclesfield, L.N.W.R. by 1941: (BTH)  Ernest Mellon, licensee. 900 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Two shows and Children’s Mat., Sat. Mat., Wed. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Phonic. Macclesfield 3265. Station, Hibel Road, L.M.S.

New REGAL Duke Street (RCA) 1937: J. F. Emery circuit. 1941 - Props. Regal Picture Theatre (Macclesfield) Ltd. Sidney Cass, manager. 400 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Three on Sat. Prices 4d. to 9d, Phone 2449. Station, Hibel Road, Macclesfield

OPERA HOUSE  / THEATRE ROYAL Opened 1882 (No 1) W. K. Gatley (1907 as T. R.) 1921 as TR - Prop., Wm. Dean. Res. Man., A. J. Hardman-Taylor. Occasional shows. Phone, Macclesfield 157. Station, Hebel Road, L.N.W.R. 1922 – altered for cinema. Architect: A. Clayton. 1930 Prop. William Dean. KYB31 – Prop. Alfred Denville. Booked at Hall. Pictures & variety. Stage 28’ deep. 6d to 3s. Phone 157. Station. Hibel. Auditorium fire 1931. Ruins demolished 1950s.

Pavilion Rink G. Gosling (1907)

PALLADIUM  1937: J. Brennan circuit

PICTURE PALACE  Duke Street  1922 - Prop., Goodalls Pictures, Ltd. Res. Man., A. H. Whitaker. One show nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices, 4d. to 6d. Station, Macclesfield, L.N.W.R. 1931: Prop. Palace Macclesfield Ltd. Booked at Hall. One show nightly. Three on Sat. 3d to 1/6. Phone 3106. Was this re-built as Regal at sound?

PICTUREDROME 102 Chestergate  1922 - Prop., Macclesfield Picturedrome, Ltd. Res. Man., Mrs. R. W. Fox. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices, 5d. to 1s. 3d. Phone, Macclesfield 216. Station, Hebel Road, L.N.W.R. 1937: 820 seats. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Macclesfield Majestic Picture House, Ltd., Mill Street. 870 seats. Continuous. Twice nightly on Sat. 3d to 1/3. Phone 2016. Now jeweller’s office.

PREMIER PICTURE HOUSE Hobson Street  1922 - Prop., Premier Picture House Ltd. Res. Man., H. W. Wells. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices, 6d. to 1s. 3d. Phone, Macclesfield 230. Slation, Maccles­field, G.C.R. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Premier Picture House (Macclesfield) Ltd. 800 seats. Continuous. Two shows Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Macclesfield 2367. Station, Hibel Road, L.M.S.

RITZ - Controlled by Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15 Regent Street. London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H.O. (Scheme not realised)

Town Hall  Corporation (1907)

 

MADELEY Salop

Anstice Memorial Institute  H. Roberts (1907)

REGENT / WEST END CINEMA / PARKHURST CINEMA Park Street (Gyrotone – later G-B Kalee) - Prop., Francis G. Stead, Meadow House, Madeley, nr Wellington. 280 seats. Once nightly, Mon. to Fri. and three shows on Sat. Prices 2d. to 1s. 2d. Booked at Office, Ironbridge Road, Madeley. Pro­scenium width 20ft. Phone Ironbridge 55. Station, Madeley Market, L.M.S. Closed late 50s.

 

MAGHULL Lancs

ALBANY Northway

 

MAIDENHEAD Berks

ABC / RIALTO PICTURE THEATRE Bridge Street  Opened 31^st October 1927 – to public 1^st November – Ben Hur. Architect: Robert Cromie. 1,262 seats. To Union 1928. WE sound 1930. Pictures & variety. 1937: 1,580 seats. Phone 277. By 1941: (WE) Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15 Lower Regent Street, London, S.W.1.Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associ­ated British Cinemas, 30-31 Golden Square W1. Phone Gerrard 7887. Continuous. Sundays once nightly. Booked at H.O. Proscenium width 33ft. Café attached. Phone 1850. Station, Maidenhead, G.W.R. Films by Road Transport. CinemaScope. Re-named ABC 1960. Closed 18^th May 1985. Demolished for office with cinema space (unused) in basement.

Circus Pitch Avery (1907)

EMIPIRE ELECTRIC THEATRE  Opened c.1913. Closed during WWI.

HIPPODROME / NEW THEATRE & OPERA HOUSE  Opened 1911. Closed c.1929. Demolished 1990. (Theatres Trust)

ODEON / UCI the filmworks Broadway, Grenfell Island  Opened 18^th September 1998. 8 screens. Re-named January 2006

PICTURE HOUSE  / PICTURE PALACE Queen Street  Opened March 1913. Prop., Queens Street Pic Pal Ltd. By 1925 res. & booking mgr. Mr Wright. Sold 1927 to Plaza Theatre (Maidenhead) Ltd. Closed 1928. Demolished for Plaza.

PICTURE THEATRE / Rink Bridge Street  Built 1909. Opened as cinema c.1911. Prop., Boyle Lawrence. Cap. 1,500. 1922 Prop., Maidenhead Picture Palace Ltd. Prices, 4½d. to 2s. To Union C’s c.1929. (WE) 712 seats. Closed 1934. Re-built as Ritz.

PLAZA THEATRE Queen Street  Opened 3^rd September 1928 – on site of Picture House. Architect: T. F. Ford. Organ: Wurlitzer 2/5 fixed console. ?895 seats. To Union 1930 & WE Sound. 718 seats. By 1941: (WE)  - Prop., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15, Lower Regent Street, London S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. 717 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 2.15 p.m. Sunday once nightly. Prices 9d. to 2s. Proscenium width 32ft., stage 10ft. deep, two dressing-rooms. Phone Maidenhead 1850. Station, Maidenhead, G.W.R. Organ removed to preservation 1961. Closed 13^th October 1962. Bingo.

Public Borough Halls f., J. W. Beslee (1907)

RITZ Bridge Street (WE) Opened 20^th January 1936 – re-built from Picture Theatre. Prop., Oxford & Berkshire Cinemas Ltd. Architect: A. H. Jones. 748 seats – one tier. Continuous. Prices, 6d. to 1/6d. To Union 1937. By 1941 - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. 748 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone 1850. Station, Maidenhead, G.W.R. Closed c1954. Various uses. By 1985 Squash racquets.

 

MAIDSTONE Kent

ABC (1) / RITZ (2)/ CENTRAL PICTURE PLAYHOUSE King Street  Opened 7^th February 1921. Architects: Ruck & Smith. Prop., Central Picture Playhouse and Café (Maidstone), Ltd. Res. Man., Capt. F. W. Young. Continuous. Two changes weekly. 1,250 seats. Station, Maidstone East, S.E. & C.R. Organ: 3m straight. 1935 organ: Compton 3/6+Melotone (2 consoles - surround to stage console - pit console fixed). To Union 1936: (W.E.) National Provincial Cinemas Ltd. 1,591 seats. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., Union House, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. 1,220 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone Maidstone 3507. All films by Kent Motor Film Transport Co.  Fire 27^th June 1955 during installation of CinemaScope & organ destroyed. Re-built as Ritz by ABC. Opened 10^th December 1956 – Moby Dick. Architects: C. J. Foster & J. Westaway. 1,270 seats. Mgr. A. P. C. Bridger. Prices, 1/10 to 4/3d. Re-named 1962. Closed 5^th October 1974. Bingo. Demolished 1980. Boot’s shop. 

ABC (2) / MGM / CANNON / GRANADA Lower Stone Street (WE)  Opened 10^th January 1934. Prop., Bernstein’s Theatres Ltd. Architect: Cecil Masey, interior Theodore Komisarjevsky. Organ: Christie 3/8 on lift+Grand Piano. 1,684 seats. Café. Props., The Granada Theatres, Ltd., 36, Golden Square, London W.1. Phone Gerrard 3554. Phone Maidstone 3838. Station, Maidstone. Flooded 1968 & re-opened balcony only. Organ damaged by floods 1968 & removed to preservation 1970. Film/bingo split 1971: Architects: George Coles & Partners. Tripled 1974. To Cannon 1989 & re-named, to MGM & re-named 1993. To Virgin 1995. To ABC & re-named 1996. Gala Bingo.

EMPIRE CINEMA Earl Street  1922 -  Prop., A. Williams. Res. Man., D. Oxley. Continuous. Mat., Wed. and Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices, 5d. to 1s. 6d. Station, Maldstone East S.E. & C.R. 1937 as New Emp: (B.T.P) Prop., A. C. Simmonds. 450 seats.

HIPPODROME Opened 1900. Destroyed by fire 1908.

ODEON Lock Meadow:  8 screens

PALACE THEATRE Gabriel’s Hill  Opened 1908. Became cinema 1914. Sound 1931. (W.E.) Prop., National Provincial Cinemas Ltd. 832 seats. Phone 3507.                To Union 1935. 668 seats. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd.,, Union House, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1, Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associated British Pic­tures, Ltd. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 23ft. Phone Maidstone 3507. SG46: Palace Theatre is now used as a Cinema except for occasional stage performances. Rep. company 1948, Films Sun. Leased out 1951 as theatre. Opened & closed – finally closed 19^th October 1957. Demolished. Shops.

POPULAR PICTURE PALACE  1913 mgr. Alfonso Eley.

RITZ (1)/ PAVILION Picture Palace Pudding Lane  Opened 1911 – converted skating rink. Enlarged 1920 – 1,350 seats. 1922 - Prop., Maidstone Pavilion, Ltd. Res. Man., F. Douglas Reeves. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices, 9d. to 1s. 6d. Phone, Maidstone 491. Station, Maidstone East, S.E. & C.R. To Union 1935 & re-named. 1936 as Ritz: (W.E.) Prop., National Provincial Cinemas Ltd. 1,784 seats. Phone 3507. (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd. Union House, 15 Regent Street, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 50ft. Phone 3507. All Films by Kent Motor Film Transport Co. Fire 11^th January 1954. Shops/offices.

WARDONA / REGAL  1941: (BTP) - Props., Mr. & Mrs. Senior. 323 seats. Prices 10d. to 2s. 6d. Continuous, Booked at Hall. Phone 4685. Station, Maidstone East & Kent Film Motor Trans­port. To Ward circuit & re-named by 1949. Wardona (Maidstone) Ltd. 318 seats.

 

MALDON Essex

STUDIO ONE / EMBASSY High Street (WE)  Opened March 1936. Architect: David E. Nye. Prop., Shipman & King, Shellmex House, Strand, W.C.2, Phone Temple Bar 5077. 1,250 seats. Organ: WurliTzer 3c/5 with surround on lift. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Café. Phone 168. To Star circuit 1967, re-named. Organ removed 1968. To Coral bingo. Closed August 1982. Demolished 1985.

HIPPODROME High Street  Opened 1910. David Ager circuit. 450 seats. Stage & 2 dressing rooms. Prop., D. Ager. Res. Man., A Thomson., Continuous., Three mats., weekly Two changes weekly. Prices, 5d.. to 1s. 3d. To S & K by 1926. Scheme for re-building 1934. Re-furbished 1934. 1937: (WE) 450 seats. (WE) - Props., Shipman & King, M84, Shellmex House, Strand, London W.C.2. Phone Temple Ear 5077. Booked at H.O. Phone Maldon 168. Station, Maldon East, L.N.E.R. Closed during WWII. Retail premises. Façade renewed. Fly tower to be seen in 1995.

Public Hall  f., Secretary (1907)

 

MALMESBURY Wilts

CINEMA Silver Street  Opened c.1913. Prop. Powell Bros. 250 seats. By 1919, prop. Montague Duck.

ELECTRIC PICTUREDROME  Unicorn Inn Year High Street  Opened 1927 – wooden building. Prop., Jack L. Mott. One show nightly. 300 seats. Sound: Imperial. Twice nightly. Prices, 7d. to 1/4d. Closed 15^th September 1934 through lightning strike. Telephone exchange on site in late 1930s. (Building moved to garage premises – demolished c.1982.)

MALMESBURY CINEMA / ATHELSTAN CINEMA Market Cross (BTP) Opened 1935 - Prop., J. L. Mott, 10 Oxford Street, Malmesbury. 333 seats. Phone 152. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 6 p.m. Mon. to Fri. Three shows on Sat. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Station, Malmesbury, G.W.R. & Film Transport. CinemaScope 1955. Closed 24^th January 1973. Bingo. Part-week films revived Sunday 19^th September 1973 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Closed to film 5^th January 1979. (Another source says 1983.) Bingo. Closed 1983. Demolished 1988. Housing – St. Michael’s Court.

Town Hall  f., J. H. Fielder (1907)

 

MALPAS Cheshire

Victoria Jubilee Hall  f., A. Callcott (1907)

 

MALTBY Yorks

GLOBE PALACE  1922 - Prop., J. H. Blackett. Res. Man., J. T. Knowles. Two shows nightly. Mon., Thurs., Sat.; one other nights. Mat., Wed. & Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices, 3d. to 9d. Station, Maltby, L. & Y.R.

GRAND CINEMA Muglet Lane  By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Star Cinemas (London) Ltd., New Star Cinema, Aire Street, Castleford. Phone 2531. 962 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Two shows on Sat. Prices 6d. to 1s.2d. Proscenium width 36ft.. Phone Maltby 114. Films by F.T.S. (Great Britain) Ltd., Leeds

 

MALTON Yorks

EXCELSIOR  Opened 1909 as skating rink – converted to cinema. Prop., Charlie Caldwell  ‘Old Tin Hut’: Burned downed 1921. Majestic replaced it.

EXCHANGE PICTURE HOUSE / Corn Exchange (1907) 1936: (WE) Prop. C. S. Read, Broughton Rise. 450 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. 6d to 1/3. Phone 173. Later controlled by Star cinemas.

MAJESTIC P.T.  Opened 1921. By 1941: (WE) -Prop., C. S. Read. 800 seats. Continuous. Pictures and Variety. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Malton 173. Station, Malton, L.N.E.R., & Road Transport.

PALACE  / STUDIO / RYEDALE / PALACE  / EXCHANGE CINEMA / Corn Exchange Yorkersgate  19^th century Corn Exchange. Probably early film seasons, but not listed in GRB1907. Opened as full-time cinema 1914. 1922 as Pal - Prop. & Res. Man., W. E. Coldwell. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices, 9d. to 1s. 10d. Station, Malton, N.E.R. Rebuilt behind façade as Palace 1934. Reverse plan – foyer, stage & fly tower, auditorium. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., C. S. Read, Broughton Rise, Malton. 850 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. 6d. Phone Malton 173. Films by Road Transport. Stalls & stage to shopping mall 1987. Cinema in circle seats 142. Closed 1998. [Closed 13th January 2006 for conversion during February into two screens – 1:90 2:40, both digital only]

Theatre and Assembly Rooms f., Miss C. Banks (1907)

 

MALVERN Worcs

Assembly Rooms  Grange Road Opened 1885. Architect J. Johnson. f., F. A. Crudge (1907) Converted to Festival Theatre 1928.

CINEMA / PICTURE HOUSE Winter Gardens Grange Road  Opened 1922 -Prop., Assembly Rooms Co., Ltd. Res. Man., M. T. Stevens. Two shows nightly Thurs, & Sat., one rest of week. Two mats. weekly. Two changes weekly. Prices, 6d. to 2s. Phone, Malvern 30. Station, Gt. Malvern, G.W.R. By 1941: (BA) - Props., Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 25, Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 3332. 700 seats. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 10d. Booked by Roy Limbert, Malvern Theatre, Phone Malvern 777. Station, Gt. Malvern, G.W.R. Still there,  379 seats - in theatre complex. Also used for conferences.

FESTIVAL THEATRE SG46: Tel.: Malvern 777 and 888. Prop.: Roy Limbert, on behalf of Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 25, Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Tel.: Whitehall 3332. Cap.: Stalls 570, D. circle 332. Barring clause: Malvern bars Worcester. Cheltenham bars Malvern (24 miles); if continued, Malvern will have to bar Cheltenham. Once nightly. Times not fixed. Two Matinées, but not fixed. Home of Malvern Company. Straight plays, musical shows, pantomimes, etc. Stage: Pros. 30ft., height 20ft., min. depth from setting line 22ft., height under fly galleries 18ft., width between fly galleries 36ft., height of grid from stage 43ft., 9 in. No counter­weight gear. 30 sets hemp lines. Elec. equip.: 200 v. A.C., 50 cycles. Foot­lights, four circuits with ind. dimmers. Three battens, each with four circuits with ind. dimmers. Spot bar with 12 spots, each ind. dimmer controlled. Cyclorama top lighting with eight floods. Cyclorama pit lighting with eight circuits ind. dimmed. Six dips with ind. dimmers. Four dips switch controlled. Two spots on stands. Six floods on stands. Two f-o-h roof pre­set spots with ind. dimmers, two f-o-h following limes (Stelmar arcs). Dressing rooms: Seven single. Note - Plans have been passed for the entire reconstruction of the dressing-room accommodation, and when this work is completed there will be eleven (eight with bathroom and toilet) wardrobe room, and large chorus room (with bath and toilet). Orchestra: Acc. 10. No resident orchestra at present, as owing to war theatre has had to be run as cinema. Amplifying equip.: Two turn-table re­producer. F-o-h or stage. Microphone. There is a permanent workshop with scene-painting frame and bridge in the existing theatre. In view of the extremely comprehensive plans for re­construction, much of the foregoing data will be inaccurate, but all alterations will be in the nature of substantial improvements. 1949: new dressing room block added. Altered 1997. Architects: RHWL. New foyer & fly tower. 36 counterweight sets. Stage boxes removed. 840 seats. Listed Grade II. 

MALVERN THEATRE Grange Road  Opened 1928 – rebuild of Assembly Rooms. Architect: A. V. Rowe. 1941: (WE) - Props., Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 25, Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 3332. 904 seats. Booked by R. W. Limbert. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 2s. 6d. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage. 29ft. deep; eight dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Malvern 777. Station, Gt. Malvern, G.W.R. (see above for peacetime rôle)

 

MALVERN LINK Worcs

LINK PICTURE THEATRE  Hampden Road (BA) - Lessee, Roy I.imbert, Direction, Ad-Visers, Ltd., Panton House, 15 Haymarket, London, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 3332. 300 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous from 6 p.m. Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone Malvern 999. Station, Malvern Link, G.W.R. (Under reconstruction.) Fitness centre 2006.

 

MANCHESTER Lancs                        also see Levenshulme

ABC        Ashton Old Road See Queens

ABC / AVENUE CINEMA  / VICTORIA Rochdale Road Higher Blackley  Opened 1932. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., S. Haling, 12 Moreton Street, Manchester, 1,400 seats. Continuous. Two shows nightly Sats. Pictures and Variety. Booked at Hall. Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width 42ft. Stage 50ft.; six dressing-rooms. Phone: Cheetham Hill 1401. Film Transport. Re-named ABC 1964. Closed to film. Bingo. Closed 1973. Demolished 1985.

ABC / CASINO CINEMA, Ballroom, and Café  Wilmslow Road, Rusholme  Opened 1916. Re-opened 6^th March 1922. Prop., Ben Kanter. To ABC 1^st July 1929. By 1941: (BTH) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, 30-31 Golden Square, London W.1. 1,420 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous daily from 2 p.m. Ballroom attached, Pros­cenium width 33ft. Phone Rusholme 4465. Stations, Central & London Road, L.M.S. Closed by fire 19^th October 1960. Demolished.

ABC / FORUM THEATRE (1) Palatine Road, Northenden, Wythenshawe  Opened 1934. Architect: Charles Hartley. Prop., Forum Cinema Co. Holophane lighting. Organ: Wurlitzer 3/8 on lift (from Cameo, Cleveland, Ohio) To ABC c.April 1936. Forum, Wythenshawe 1937: (WE) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,904 seats. Phone Didsbury 2408. 1941: (WE) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square W1. 1,904 seats, Booked at H.O. Continuous evenings. Mats., Mon., Wed., Thurs., Sat. Booked at H.O. Stage18ft. 6in. deep; three dressing-rooms. Café and ballroom attached. Phone Wythenshawe 2408. Station, Northenden. Renamed ABC 1964. 1972: organ removed (to Burton-on-Trent Town Hall). Closed 1974. Now ‘Kingdom Hall’ - Jehovah’s Witnesses.

ABC / NEW ROYAL PICTURE THEATRE Ashton New Road  Opened 1930 – re-build of Royal Picturedrome. Prop., ABC. 1,445 seats. 1937: (RCA) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,365 seats. Phone East 0374. By 1941: (BTH) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30/31 Golden Square, London W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 1,244 seats. Booked at H.O. Evenings Continuous and Mats. daily. Continuous from 2 p.m. on Sat. Phone East 0374. Stations, Manchester termini. Closed for bingo & re-opened 1962. Re-named ABC 1960 c.1965. Closed 25^th January 1969. Compulsory purchase.

ABC / PREMIER CINEMA  (2) Cheetham Hill Road - opposite Premier (1). Opened Monday 3^rd August 1925. Architect: John Knight. 1,850 seats. Café. Prices, 6d, 9d, 1s. Stage 10’ deep. To ABC 1929.  By 1941: (Western) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square W1. 1,980 seats. Booked at H.O. Mats. daily from 2.30p.m.; Sat, continuous from 2p.m. Phone Cheetham Hill 2076. Café attached. Station, Victoria, L.M.S. Re-named ABC c.1965. Closed 25^th July 1970 – licence surrendered in August. Now snooker club.

ADELPHI CINEMA  Kenton Lane/Dean Lane, Moston Opened 1919. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Phone Failsworth 1065. Re-built 1939. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Man­chester. 1,312 seats. Booked at Manchester. Phone Failsworth 1065. Station, Newton Heath (Dean Lane). Closed 1962.

Albert Hall Peter Street  Licensed 1910. 1940 - licence not renewed.

ALEXANDRA Hamilton Road Longsight  Opened 1912. 1919 as cinema.

ALEXANDRA Mitford Street Stretford  Opened 1912. Closed 1917.

ALHAMBRA  890 Rochda1e Road Harpurhey Opened 1914. Closed 1930.

ALHAMBRA PAVILION  By 1941: H. D. Moorhouse Circuit, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. Phone Ard­wick 2226.

ALHAMBRA THEATRE Ashton Old Road Higher Openshaw  Opened 2^nd August 1909. Architect: H. A. Turner. Cap. 2,500. Bought by HDM 1910 & cinema in 1915 – start of circuit. 1937: (BTP) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. 2,300 seats. Phone Droylsden 1651. 1941: (BTP) Prop., Alhambra (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,572 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Droylsden 1651. Station, Manchester Termini. Closed 1960. Now Al-Hambra restaurant. Stage & dressing block gone, auditorium gutted. To Let in 2004.

AMBASSADOR SUPER CINEMA Langworthy Road, Pendleton, Levenshulme  Opened 1928. Organ: Jardine 3/10 with surround (believed to be first). By 1941: (BTH) -Prop., Ambassador Super Cinema, Ltd., 14, John Dalton Street, Man­chester. Deansgate 3542. 1,812 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous, Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Proscenium width 40ft. Stage 16ft.; six dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Pendleton 1601. Station Pendleton L.M.S. Damaged by enemy action 1940. Organ scrapped 1951.

AMC Great Northern 16, Deansgate: 16 screens

ANCOATS PICTUREDROME Ancoats  Opened 1914. Closed 1919.

ARDWICK EMPIRE – see Hippodrome  (2)

ARDWICK PICTURE THEATRE / VICTORIA Ardwick Green  Opened 1910 as Vic. Cap. 1,500. Re-built & enlarged as Ardwick November 1920. To ABC 1^st July 1929. 1933 Rt. Winlow, manager (to Hyde Ritz 1938). 1937 as APT: (RCA) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,500 seats. Phone Ardwick 3059.By 1940: (BTH) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square W1. 1,600 seats. Continuous. Booked at H.O. Phone Ardwick 3059. Station, London Road, L.M.S. 1940 bombed. Ruins demolished. Now Labatt’s Apollo car park.

ASTOR / NEW ASTOR / PLAZA / NEW QUEEN’S PARK PICTUREDROME 666 Rochdale Road  Opened c.1913/14. Closed 1915. Re-opened pre-1935 New Astor from May 1953. Closed 13^th October 1956. Re-opened 1957. Closed 1959.

ASTOR / PAVILION / MARLBOROUGH / HIGH TOWN PICTURE PALACE / St James’s Theatre St. James’ Road High Town Opened 1910 Cinema c.1913/14. (Dates & name order uncertain) Closed 1935/6 – licence provisions. Re-opened. Closed 1950s.

Belle Vue Gardens Belle Vue  1910 opened cinema. 1913 licence not renewed

Belle Vue Zoo      1950 to 1960s Cartoon Cinema attached to King’s Hall

BIJOU CINEMA 160 Cheetham Hill Road  Opened 1913  Closed c.1933.

BIJOU ELECTRIC THEATRE Ancoats  Opened 1910. 1913 licence not renewed

BIJOU ELECTRIC THEATRE  84 Erskine St Hulme  Opened April 1910. Closed – still silent – January 1932. Boxing stadium. 1937 – rebuilt as Luxor.

BLACKLEY EMPIRE  Factory Road, Blackley  Opened 1912/13.              1937: (BA) Prop., Blackley Electric Theatre Ltd. Phone Collyhurst 2024. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Blackley Electric Theatre, Ltd. 2 Cathedral House, Manchester. Booked by L. G. Bailey. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Phone Collyhurst 2024. Closed April 1960.

BRADFORD E1ECTRIC THEATRE Ashton New Road Bradford c.1913. Closed 1919/20

BRIDGEWATER /ALCAZAR  Opened c.1880s. Closed c.1910. Demolished 1970s. 

Bridgewater Hall Wesleyan Mission Queen Street. Hulme       

BRIDGEWATER PICTURE HALL 23 Higher Cambridge Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock  Opened 1911. Closed 1933.

CAMEO Hyde Road Gorton  Opened c.1912/13. Closed to film 1960. Bingo. Closed 1995.

CANNON 1&2 / ABC / DEANSGATE PICTURE HOUSE and CAFÉ  1&2 Deansgate  Opened 1912 – Manchester Ents Co OR opened January 1914. Prop., Alliance Cinematographic Co. Cap. 870. Continuous noon to 10.30. Prices, 6d to 1s. Reconstructed November 1930. Architect: G. Allen Fortescue. 1937 as DPH: (WE) Prop., S. P. Halpern. 870 seats. Phone Blackfriars 0051. 1941: (WE) - Prop., Deansgate Picturehouse (1936) Ltd. Seats 866. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 1s. 6d. and 2s. 6d. Café and Ballroom attached, Phone Deansgate 5252/3. To ABC 5^th July 1959 & leased to 20^th Century Fox. Closed, modernised, Todd-AO, re-opened 4^th September 1960. 697 seats. Re-named ABC c.1961. 2^nd screen in ex-café 15^th March 1971. 167 seats. Re-named Cannon 1 & 2 1986. Closed 9^th August 1990. Empty. Now bar.

CAPITOL Princess Rd., Moss Side  1937: (WE) Prop., J. Inerfield. 1,547 seats. Phone Moss Side 1988.

CARLTON SUPER CINEMA Aston New Road, Clayton  Opened 7^th July 1930. 1937: (B.T.H.) Prop., Carlton Super Cinemas Ltd. 1,300  seats. Phone East 0257. 1941: (BTH) Prop., Carlton Super Cinema, Ltd., 14, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. 1,300 seats. Booked at H.O. Pictures and Variety. Continuous. Prices 6d. to 1s. Stage14ft. deep; six dressing-rooms. Proscenium width 35ft. Café attached. Phone East 0257. Closed February-March 1964. New lessee, renovated, re-opened. Closed 1965. Demolished 2006.

CASINO Wilmslow Rd., Rusholme  1937: (RCA) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd 1,815 seats. Phone Rusholme 4465.

CENTRAL (1) Teignmouth Street, Collyhurst  Closed May 1936. Replaced by New Central on different site.

CENTRAL (2) Paley St., Colleyhurst  1937: (W.E) Prop., Emery & Wilkinson. 700. Phone City 1402.

 CENTRAL HALL Oldham Road  Opened as cinema 1910.  1940 - licence not renewed.

CEYLON PICTURE HOUSE (1) Ceylon Street Newton Heath  Opened 1913/14. 1937: (Philips) Prop., C. A. Wilkinson. 550 seats. Collyhurst 1006. Closed 1938 – replaced on different site by Ceylon (2). Dance hall. 1962 – bingo. Burned down 9^th May 1992.
CEYLON PICTURE HOUSE (2) Thorpe Road, Newton Heath  Opened 1938. (WE) -Props., Ceylon Cinema (New­ton Heath) Ltd., Apsley House, Mossley. 800 seats. Booked at Manchester. Continu­ous, Twice nightly Sat., Mats, Mon. and Thurs., Prices 3d. to 1s. Phone Collyhurst 3058. Station, Newton Heath, L.M.S. Carrier. Closed to film 30^th June 1960. Bingo. Closed 1992. Furniture factory.

CINE CITY / SCALA Electric PALACE  Wilmslow Road, Withington   Opened 11^th January 1913. 600 seats. Bomb damage 1^st October, 1940. Re-opened Tuesday 22nd October. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Withington Cinemas, Ltd., 44, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 2643. 634 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Two Houses Sat. Two changes weekly, Prices 6d. to 1s. Proscenium width 18ft. Phone Dids­bury 3301. Station, Withington. Closed 2000. To be demolished 2005.

CINEPHONE / CONTINENTAL / NEW / MARKET STREET PICTURE HOUSE 93 Market Street  Opened Tuesday 30^th August 1910. Prop. PCT. 500 stalls, 90 balcony. Closed 1973. Redevelopment.

CINÉTÈQUE / AABEN / UNIT 4 / YORK CINEMA  York Street  Hulme  Opened 1928. By 1941: (WE)  - Prop., Thomas & Norman Royle, Taormina, Manor Drive, West Didsbury. Phone 3322. 1,414 seats. Continuous. Booked at Hall. Twice nightly Sat. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Central 3823. Station, Central, London Road, Victoria or Exchange. Closed to film 1967. Bingo. Closed 1969. To Brian Tattersall. 1^st November 1970 - converted to 4 screens as Unit 4. Re-named Aaben 1980. Closed. Re-opened as cine-disco 1986. Closed 1987. Demolished 1992/3. Council housing.

CINEWORLD / UGC Parrs Wood Entertainment Centre, East Didsbsury:  11 screens. Re-named mid-2005.

CINTRA CINEMA / PALLADIUM Rochdale Rodd Blackley  Opened March 1929 - conversion of Palais de Danse. Semi-atmospheric interior. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Blackley Palais de Danse, Ltd. 1,750 seats. Pictures and Variety, Films booked by F. E. Spring, 3 Parsonage, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7905; and Variety by Percy Hall’s Agency, Oxford Road, Manchester. Twice nightly; Mats., Mon., Wed, and Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s. Prosc. width 40ft. Stage 12ft. deep; five dressing-rooms. Café and Dance Hall attached. Phone Colly­hurst 1058. Station, London Road, L.M.S. CinemaScope/stereo 17^th January 1955 – Flight of the White Heron. Closed 19^th June 1962 Hollywood or Bust – and Gunfight at the OK Corral. Re-opened April 1964. Closed 1967. Bingo. Closed 2005. Empty. Demolished October/November 2006.
CITY EXHIBITION HALL  Opened 1910. Closed 1913.

CITY THEATRE / THEATRE ROYAL (1) / Circus Opened c.1842. Closed 1850. Demolished

CLAREMONT SUPER CINEMA  Claremont Road/Upper Lord Street, Greenheys, Moss Side  Opened 1^st February 1923. 1,700 seats. To ABC 1929. 1,581 seats. 1937: (WE) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,087 seats. Phone Moss Side 2866. 1941: (WE) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, London W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 1,699 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous evenings from 5.30 and Mat. daily Mon. to Fri. Continuous from 2.30 Sat. Two changes weekly. Proscenium width 26ft.  Phone Moss Side 2866. Station, London Road. Closed 8^th February 19587. Demolished 1974.

CLASSIC / CAMEO / Manchester NEWS THEATRE 16 Oxford Street  1937: (B.T.H.) Jacey Cinemas Ltd. 420 seats. 1941: (BTH) - Props., Jacey Cinemas, Ltd., Somerset House, Temple Street, Birmingham. Phone Mid 2941. 435 seats. Prices 7d. and 1s. 2d. Continuous from 11a.m. Booked at Manchester. Café attached. Phone Central 0497. Proscenium width 28ft. Station, Central, L.M.S. Re-named Cameo 1973. Closed 1980s.
COLISEUM Ardwick Green  Opened 1911/12. Closed June 1926. Interior enlarged. Re-opened. 1937: (WE) Prop., Coliseum (Manchester) Ltd. 1,787 seats. Phone Ardwick 3150. 1941: (WE) - Prop., Coliseum (Manchester) Ltd., 10 Brazennose Street, Manchester. 1,787 seats. Continuous. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Ardwick 3150. Station, London Road, L.M.S. Closed 26^th March 1949.

COLLEGE PICTURE HOUSE  Coupland Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock  Opened 1914. 1937: (Pictone) Prop., B. H. Franks Cinema Circuit. 1,000 seats. Phone Ardwick 2006. 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Dorothy Millar. Phone Chorlton 1898. 1,000 seats. Booked at hall. Continuous. Prices 4d. to 7d. Proscenium width 26ft. Phone Ard­wick 2006. Closed February 1960.

Conservative Club Hall T. Seddon  (1907)

CONCORDE 1 & 2 / BURNAGE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE  / CLASSIC / ODEON / LIDO SUPER CINEMA Green End Road Burnage  Opened 1936 (WE)  - Props., Anglo-Scottish Theatres, Ltd., 2 Cavendish Square W1. 1,560 seats. Films booked by C. Charlton, c/o. Pyramid Theatre, Sale, near Manchester. Prices 8d. to 1s. 10d. Pro­scenium width 36ft. Stage 15ft. deep; five dressing-rooms. Phone Heaton Moor 2244. Café attached. Station, Burnage. Re-named Burnage Ent Cent 1967 – split for supermarket, bingo, and films. July 1971 – new owners & re-named Concorde. Closed June 1985. To Henshaw group. Re-opened February 1986. Closed Kwik Save store. Damaged by fire c.2003 –  rear removed.

CONTINENTAL / SHAKESPEARE PICTURE HALL Halliwell Lane, Cheetham Hill Road  Opened Saturday 14^th January 1914. By 1941: (WE)  - Prop., Swinton Entertainments, Ltd. Man. Dir., J, F. Emery, J.P., Midland Hank House, 26 Cross Street, Manchester. 900 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Prices 5d. to 1s. 5d. Phone Cheetham Hill 2180. All Manchester Sta­tions. January 1958 renamed Continental. Closed 1959.

CONWAY / CENTRAL / NEW CENTRAL Clowes Street West Gorton 1914 re-named Conway 1951. Closed 1961.
CORNER HOUSE  Oxford Street Opened 1985 – conversion of former Shaw’s furniture store.

CORNERHOUSE ANNEXE / CLASSIC / TATLER NEWS THEATRE (2) Oxford Street/Whitworth Street West (RCA) Opened 1936 – on site of Tatler (1). Prop., Allied (Times) Theatres Ltd. Architect: Peter Cummings, F.R.I.B.A. 420 seats. Phone Central 6015.  By 1941: (RCA) - Props., Times Theatres, Ltd., Century House, St. Peters Square, Manchester. Phone Central 0274. 296 seats. Continuous. Prices 6d. and 1s. Proscenium width 16ft. Phone Central 6015, Stations, London Road, Victoria, Central, Exchange. 1996 became part of Corner House complex.

CORONA PICTURE THEATRE  Birch Street/Hyde Road West Gorton  Opened 1912. Opened c.April 1915 – From Flower Girl to Red Cross Nurse. Architects: Stott & Son. Cap. c.1,000. Café-lounge attached. Corona Picture Theatre, Birch St., West Gorton 1937: (B.A.) Prop., New Century Pictures Ltd. 1,101 seats. Phone East 0369. 1941: (BA) - Prop., Gaumont-British Pictures Corpn., Ltd., 123 Regent Street, London W.1. Phone Regent 8080. 1,100 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 1s. 2d. Pro­scenium width 27ft. Phone East 0369. Station, London Road, L.N.E.R. Closed to film 1958. Cabaret club. Closed 1980. Demolished 1985.

CORONATION / Coronation Hall / Public Hall Langley Lane Northenden Opened 1911 – belonged to next-door pub. 1920s Re-licensed c.1954.  CinemaScope. 250 seats. 1964 Closed to film. Bingo. Closed. Demolished late 80s. Pub car park.

Corporation Public Halls  f., Steward (1907)

COSMO CINEMA Wellington Street/ Hyde Road, Gorton  Opened 1912. 1937: (W.E.) Prop., Union Cinemas Ltd. 885 seats. Phone East 0243. 1941:  (WE) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15 Regent Street, SW1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associated British Cinemas, 30-31 Golden Square, London W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone East 0243. Station, London Road. Closed 30^th June 1960. Bingo. Closed 1995. Auction house.

CRESCENT CINEMA / CHAPMAN STREET PICTURE PALACE  Chapman (Cossack) Street, Hulme  Opened 1912. Cap. 1,000. 1937: (Pictone) Prop., Picture Hall (Hulme) Ltd.     1,100 seats. Phone Moss Side 2042. 1941: (Picturetone) - Prop., Picture Hall (Hulme) Ltd. 1,200 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Booked at Hall. Prices 5d. to 10d. Phone Moss Side 2047. Station, Central. Closed 1965.

CRESTA / REGENT SUPER CINEMA  Princess Road Sth. Fallowfield  Opened August 1929. Architects: Drury & Gomersall. Generated own power. 1941: (BTH) - Props., Gorton District Cinemas, Ltd. 1,300 seats. Pictures and Variety. Booked by Bert Abbott, Gen. Man. at Hall. Continuous. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Stage 18ft. deep; six dressing-rooms. Phone Moss Side 1955. Station, Manchester (Welbraham Road Halt) Closed May 1960. Demolished 1961. Petrol station on site.

CROMWELL PICTURE HOUSE  Pendleton  1937: (WE) Prop., Cromwell Picture House Ltd. 1,155 seats. Phone Pendleton 1165. 1941: (WE) - Props., Cromwell Picture House, Ltd., Liver­pool. 1,155 seats. Continuous, Prices 6d. to 1s. Booked by P. M. Hanmer, 51a, Rodney Street, Liverpool. Phone Bank 610. Phone Pendleton 1165. Station, Pendleton, L.M.S.

CRUMPSALL PICTURE THEATRE  Opened c.1914. Closed September 1928.

Crumpsall New Cinema (for J. F. Emery) not built

DEVONSHIRE CINEMA  Broughton (WE) - New Devonshire Theatre (Manchester) Co., Ltd., 44, Corporation Street, Manchester, Phone Broughton 2720. 1,300 seats. Continuous from 6 p.m. Mats., Mon. and Thurs. Booked at Palladium Cinema, Manchester

DON CINEMA THEATRE Beswick Street Ancoats  Opened 1912. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Union Cinemas Ltd. Phone Ardwick 2926. 1941: (BTP) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15 Regent Street, SW.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Managed by Associated British Cinemas, Ltd. Booked at H.O. Evenings Continuous. Mats, Mon. to Thurs., Sat. Continuous from 2 p.m. Proscenium width 28ft. Phone Ardwick 2926. Station, Victoria, L.M.S. Closed February 1958.

ELECTRIC CINEMA / Labour Hall Knutsford Road, Gorton  Opened as cinema c.1912. Cap. 600. Closed c.May 1914. 1915 re-opened as Electric.

ELECTRIC PALACE Heaton  Opened 1911.

ELLESMERE CINEMA East Lancashire Road, Worsley (WE) - Props., Ellesmere Super Cinema, Ltd., 13, St. Ann Street, Manchester. 1,250 seats, Prices 7d. to 1s.6d. Continuous. Proscenium width 45ft. Stage18ft. deep; four dressing-rooms. Café attached. Station, Swinton.

EMPIRE Moss Empires, Ltd. (1907)

EMPIRE PICTURE THEATRE East Broughton (WE) - Props., Harry & Frank Shaw. 650 seats. Booked at Manchester. Continuous. Twice nightly Sat. Prices 7d. to 1s. 2d. Pro­scenium width 30ft. Phone Broughton 2652. Station, Manchester.

EMPIRE Oldham Road Mosley  Opened c.1912. Closed c.1972
EMPRESS ELECTRIC THEATRE Oldham Road, Miles Platting  Opened 1912. Prop. Broadhead circuit. 1937: (P.T.A.) Prop., H. Talbot. 1,250 seats. Phone Collyhurst 2748. By 1941: (PTA) - Prop., C. & H. Talbot. 1,200 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 7d. Phone Collyhurst 2748. Closed 1961. Bingo. Closed 1995. Warehouse. Destroyed by fire June 2006.

Empress Picture Hall Dean Lane Moston  ?  c.1939/40

EMPRESS PICTURE HOUSE  Organ 1930: 2/5            Symphonique patent of Jardine-Smith. By 1941: (WE) - Props., J. F. Emery Circuit, 26 Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. 680 seats. Prices 3d. to 7d. Continuous. Booked at Manchester. Phone Pendleton 1703. Station, Pendleton

ESSOLDO / RIVOLI  Rochdale Road Collyhurst  (RCA) Opened c.December 1937.  Prop., Ben Kanter, 38 Deansgate, Manchester. Phone Bla. 9084. Booked at Manchester. 1,195 seats. Con­tinuous Mon. to Fri. Sat, twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 1s. Proscenium width 45ft. Phone Collyhurst 1280. Station, London Road. To Essoldo & re-named 1946. Closed to film 1964. Bingo.
Demolished.

ESSOLDO / RIVOLI Mount Road Gorton (RCA)  Opened 1936. Architect: Benjamin Waterhouse. Prop., Ben Kanter, 38 Deansgate, Manchester. Phone Bla 9084. 1,506 seats. Booked at Manchester. Prices 6d.to 1s. 2d. Continuous. Proscenium width 30ft. Stage 20ft.; eight dressing-rooms. Phone East 0404. Station, Belle Vue, L.M.S.  To Essoldo 1946. Re-named. Closed to film March 1960. 1965 bingo. Closed 1995. Demolished 1996. Housing on site – Essoldo Close.

FORUM (2) Civic Centre Wythenshaw  Civic theatre with film provision.

FOUR WAYS CINEMA  New Moston  Opened 1939. By 1941: (BTH) - Props. Snape Circuit, 14, John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. 1,256 seats. Prices 6d. to 1s. 3d. Continuous, Booked at H.O. Proscenium width 38ft. Phone Failsworth 2349. Station, Moston, L.M.S. Closed 1973.

FREE TRADE HALL Peter Street  J. Tennant (1907) Films from 1908. By 1940: Prop., Manchester Corporation, Town Hall, Manches­ter. Enquiries to Town Hall Superintendent. Organ: Wurlitzer 4/20(22) +Piano (from Odeon/Paramount).  Phone Central 3377. Occasional shows only. Bombed 1940. Re-built – no film. Free Trade Hall 1977 ex-Paramount organ: Wurlitzer 4/20(22) + Piano. (Later to Town Hall, Stockport).                                             

FUTURIST / PALLADIUM / GRAND THEATRE Peter Street  Opened 1883. Prop. Edward Garcia. To Thomas Barrasford tour. 1906 Pics & Var. – Jasper Redfern (of Sheffield). Film from 1909. During WWI sold to Ludwig Blattner. Auditorium rebuilt as cinema 1916. Palladium  1918. Re-named Futurist 1920.  Closed 1924. Religious use in auditorium, foyer car sales. New façade 1970s. Now restaurant.

FUTURIST Great Ducie Street, Strangeways  1937: (B.T.H.) Prop., L. Burgess. 600 seats. Phone Blackfriars 3902.

GAIETY PICTURE HOUSE / GAIETY THEATRE Peter Street  Opened 1884. Architect: Alfred Darbyshire. H. M. Thorburn (No 2) (1907) 1908: altered by Frank Matcham. Horniman Rep Co. 18^th July 1921 - cinema. To Savoy Cinemas, then ABC. Leased to Regent circuit 1933-35. To independent November 1937. Improvements. Architects: Roberts, Wood & Elder. Live theatre. 1937: (RCA) Prop., Gaiety Theatre Ltd. (Variety) 1,167 seats. B’friars 2615. February 1940 – cinema. 1,298 seats.By 1941: Direction, Harry Buxton. 1,215 seats. Proscenium width 26ft. Stage26ft.; 14 dressing-rooms. Phones, Dea 4111 and Bla 8088. Station, Central L.N.E.R. War damage June 1941. Repaired. 1944 – Harry Buxton returned to live shows till 1947. 1948 structural alterations. Closed 1^st August 1959. Demolished. Shops & offices.

GALLERY / ELITE  / Association Hall YMCA, Peter Street  Early film seasons. 1913 opened as Elite. 1914 re-named Gallery.

GAUMONT Oxford Street/ Great Bridgewater Street  Opened 21^st October 1935. Architect: William T. Benslyn & James Morrison, interiors Theodore Komisarjevsky. Built by Sidney Bernstein for Granada (Manchester) Ltd.on site of Stoll’s Hippodrome. Sold to G-B a few days before due to open. Organ: Wurlitzer 4/14 on lift + Grand Piano – under-stage chambers. 2,258 seats. Box: Stelmar spots & Brenograph. By 1941: (BA Duosonic) - Prop., Gaumont British Pictures Corpn., Ltd. 2,300 seats. Pictures and occasional Variety. Booked at H.O. Prices 1s.4d. to 3s.6d. Continuous. Proscenium width 50ft. Stage 26ft. deep; nine dressing-rooms. Café and restaurant attached. Phone Central 1323. Station, Manchester. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. Post-WWII GK 21s fitted. 1950s gen. mgr. Geo. Baker. Closed 28^th January 1974. Nightclub in stalls – circle partitioned off by suspended ceiling. Closed. Demolished for car park 1990.

GRAND JUNCTION THEATRE Warwick St., Hulme  1937: (BTP) Prop., G. S. Smith. 1,280 seats.

GLOBE Thomas Street, Cheetham Hill  Opened 1914. 1937: (BTP) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. 800seats. Phone Ch’tham Hill 2537. 1941: (BTP) - Props., Globe Theatre Co. (Manchester) Ltd. Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. Booked at H.O. 750 seats. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Phone Cheet­ham Hill 2537. Station, Crumpsall, L.M.S. Closed 1957.

GLOBE Cornbrook Street, Old Trafford  Opened 1913. 1937: (B.T.P.) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. Phone Moss Side 2512. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., North-Western Entertainments, Ltd. Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Man­chester (H.D.M. circuit). 1,230 seats - first 10 rows long benches. Continuous. Two changes weekly. Booked at H.O. Phone Moss Side 2512. Stations, Manchester termini. Kalee 8s (hand-fed arcs). 1940s chief Stan Bridgeford, 2nd Johnny Worrall. Closed 1957.

GREEN HILL CINEMA / PREMIER (1)  Cheetham Hill Road Opened 1911. Re-named 1925 on opening of successor opposite. By 1941: (BTP)  Opened c.1911. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Union Cinemas Ltd.    550 seats. Phone Cheetham Hill 1839. 1941 - Prop., Lessee E. J. Linsdell. 350 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Cheetham 1839. Station, Victoria. Closed c.1964. Market trader premises.

GROSVENOR PICTURE PALACE  Oxford Road/Grosvenor Street, All Saints  Opened 19^th May 1915. 1,100 seats. 1937: (BTP) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit.             Phone Ardwick 3175. 1941: (BTP) - Props., New Grosvenor (Manchester). Ltd., Imperial Buildings, Oxford Road, Manchester. Man. Dir., H. D. Moorhouse, J.P. 953 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Ardwick 3175. Station, Manchester. Closed May 1968. Bingo. Closed. 1990 bought by Firkin theme pub chain – now The Footage & Firkin.

HARTE’S GRAND THEATRE and Fairyland Wooden circus. 1894: converted to music hall. Closed by fire 1899.

HALT TOWN ELECTRIC Cyrus Street, Holt Town Opened c.1911. Closed c.1921.
Houldsworth Ha11 90 Deansgate  Opened c.1910. 1948 not re-licensed.
HEATON PARK CINEMA  Bury Old Road  Opened Saturday 10^th August 1929 (to public on Monday). 1937: (BTH) Prop., New Empire (Burnley) Ltd. Phone Prestwich 1535. 1941 (BTH) - Lessees, New Empire (Burnley) Ltd., Newgate Chambers, Rochdale. Phone Rochdale 3212. 1.053 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Two shows Sat. Mat., Mon., Wed., and Sat. Prices 4d. to 1s.2d. Stage6ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone Prestwich 1535. Station, Heaton Park, L.M.S. Closed 1957.

HIPPODROME (2) / ARDWICK EMPIRE Ardwick Green. Prop. ? Moss’ Empires. Opened 16^th July 1904. Architect: Frank Matcham. Cap. 3.000. Op mgr Walter Collins. Stoll Tour. Cine-variety from November 1930. Renamed New Manchester Hipp. & refurbished 1935 on closure of Hipp (1). SG46: Prop.: Stoll Theatres Corporation, Ltd Coliseum Buildings, London,W.1. Tel.: Manager, Ardwick 2800. Stage door, Ardwick 2342. Booking office, Ardwick 4101-2. Cap: 2,000.Varieties.Twice daily. Stage: Prosc. 35ft. x 27ft. Elec. equip.: Voltage 230 A.C., 50 cycles. Dressing rooms: 14. Amplifying equip.: Reproducer and microphone. Closed 1961. Demolished early 1964.

HIPPODROME (1) Oxford Street   Opened Boxing Day 1904. Architect: Frank Matcham. Prop.,  Oswald Stoll. Moss Empires, Ltd. (1907) Films From 1908/9. Bought by Sidney Bernstein. Closed and demolished 1935 for erection of Gaumont.

HULME HIPPODROME / GRAND JUNCTION THEATRE Preston Street Opened 1901. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. B. Broadhead circuit. Cap. 3,000. Opened as playhouse, but switched names 1905 with smaller variety Hipp. next door. To James Brennan Circuit 1950. To casino/bingo 1962. Closed to bingo 1986. Façade hidden by cladding/rendering. Empty.

HULME PLAYHOUSE / JUNCTION THEATRE / GRAND JUNCTION THEATRE / HULME HIPPODROME Warwick Street  Opened 1902. Architect: J. J. Alley. W. B. Broadhead circuit.  1,500 seats. (1907)  Organ: Wurlitzer 3/13+Piano. By 1941: (BTP) Warwick Street, Hulme - Props., Junction Cinema, Ltd., Hippodrome, Preston Street, Hulme. Phone Moss Side 1351. 1,120 seats. Booked at Hippodrome. Continuous. Prices 5d. to 9d. Proscenium width 34ft. Phone Moss Side 3033. AND (BTP) Hulme - Props., Cinebuilders Ltd. Phone Moss 3033. Booked at H.O. 1,200 seats. Continuous, Prices 4d. to 9d. Proscenium width 34 ft Station, Manchester Central. To James Brennan Circuit 1950. Re-named P’hse 1951. Closed 1956. To BBC as recording studio. Organ removed 1970. Closed 1987. NIA Centre 26^th April 1991 (drama, dance, music). Closed by 2000.

IMPERIAL PICTURE THEATRE and CAFÉ Chorlton Road, Brooks’s Bar, Old Trafford  Opened 1913. Architect: W. H. Matley. 1937: (WE) Prop., Cinemas (Manchester) Ltd. 760 seats. Phone Moss Side 2735. 1941: (WE)  Props., Cine­mas (Manchester) Ltd., 20, Brazennose Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 6965. 760 seats. Twice nightly. Mats., Mon., Wed., and Sat. Prices 7d. to 1s. Booked by C. Ogden, at 196 Deansgate, Manchester. Stage 5ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Café attached. Phone 2735. Station, Manchester Central. Closed 1970s.

KING GEORGE V  Gorton Lane  Gorton  Opened 1912. 700 seats. Closed 1929. Replaced by Plaza on same site.

KING’S CINEMA / KING’S THEATRE / KING’S OPERA HOUSE Stockport Road Longsight  Opened 1905. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. B. Broadhead  (1907) Cinema from 1933. 1937 as KT: (BTP) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. Phone Rusholme 4655. By 1941: (BTP) - Props., Shaftesbury Cinema Theatre Co. (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,129 seats. Booked by H.O. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Rusholme 4655. Station, Manchester. Closed 1964. Demolished.

KING’S HALL 176 City Road Hulme               Opened c.1914    . Closed c.1914/15.
LABATT’S APOLLO / APOLLO / ABC / APOLLO THEATRE Stockport Road Ardwick (WE) Opened 29^th August 1938. Architects: Peter Cummings & Alex M. Irving; interiors, Mollo & Egan, Holophane lighting, Rollo Gillespie Williams. Organ: Compton 3c/6+Melotone on lift. By 1941: Prop. R. C. Roy, Guardian Assurance Buildings, 25 Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 4428/9. 2,631 seats. Prices 8d. to 1s. 8d. Films and Variety. Booked at Manchester. Continuous, Mon. to Fri., from 6p.m. Twice nightly Sats. and Holidays. Mats. daily. Proscenium width 53ft. Stage 40ft.; 14 dressing-rooms. Café and Dance Hall. Phone Ardwick 1141. Station, London Road. To ABC 31^st January 1943. Re-named ABC 1962. 1967 organ broken down. Closed to film mid-70s. To independent & re-named Apollo 30^th January 1977 – live shows & occ. film. Re-named Labatt’s Apollo 1997. Live venue. Listed Grade II.

Lewis’s Store Theatre Market Street City  Opened c.1910. 1932 - licence withdrawn by Lewis’s

Liberal Club Hall A. Airey  (1907)

LIBRARY THEATRE Central Library, St. Peter’s Square  Opened with rest of building 1931. Lecture theatre. 300 seats in two tiers. Projection box. 3 dressing rooms.  

Liverpool Club Hadfield Street Ancoats  Cinematograph licence c.1915 to c.1917
LONGFORD PICTUREDROME Longford Street Chorlton  Opened c.1913. Closed 1919.

LONGSIGHT PICTURE PALACE 504 Stockport Road Longsight  Opened c.1911/12. Closed 1920s.

LUXOR CINEMA Erskine Street, Hulme (BTH)  Opened 1937 – rebuilt from Bijou. Props., Prop., Morecambe Amusements Co. Ltd. J. F. Emery Circuit, 26 Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. Architect: A. H. Walsingham. 920 seats. Prices 5d. to 10d. Continuous evenings, Mats., Mon. and Thurs. Proscenium width 17ft. Booked at H.O. Phone Moss Side 2997. Station, Manchester. Closed 1959.

LYCEUM CINEMA  Malvern Street/City Road Cornbrook, Hulme  Opened c.1913. To Emery circuit. 1937: (WE) Prop., J. F. Emery Circuit 620 seats. Phone Trafford Park 0097. 1941: (WE) - Props., J. F. Emery Circuit, 26 Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. 625 seats. Con­tinuous. Prices 4d. to 10d. Booked at H.O. Phone Trafford Park 1597. Station, Man­chester, L.M.S. Closed 1959.

MAGNET CINEMA Church Street, Newton Heath (BTH) - Props., Magnet Cinema (Newton Heath) Ltd., 14 John Dalton Street, Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. 1,350 seats. Prices 4d. to 1s. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Three shows on Sat. Booked at Snape Circuit, Manchester. Proscenium width 40ft. Venetian scene on house tabs. Phone Failsworth 1090. Station, Manchester. Closed 1958. Next door to Pavilion.

MAGNET STREET PICTURE HOUSE (WE) - Props., Oxford Street & Market Street (Manchester) Cinemas, Ltd. Phone Deansgate 4771. 620 seats. Booked by J. F. Emery Circuit, Midland Bank House, Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Blackfriars 7876. Continuous. Prices 1s. to 2s. Café attached. Station, London Road.

MAJESTIC Stockport Road nr Grey Street - proposed 1919 - not bui1t

MANLEY PARK PICTURE HOUSE Clarendon Road Whalley Range  Opened c.1913. Closed between 1916-1920.
MARKET STREET PICTURE HOUSE  Market Street   1937: (W.E.) Prop., Oxford St. & Market St. (M‘ter) Cinemas Ltd. 604 seats. Phone City 1370.

MAYFAIR CINEMA

METROPOLE THEATRE Ashton Old Road Openshaw (No 2)  Opened 1898. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. H. Broadhead  (1907) Variety & Pictures from 1909. 1937: Prop., P. B. Broadhead (Legit.) Phone East 0103. By 1941: (BTP) - Props., Metro­pole (Openshaw) Ltd., 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,739 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone East 0103. Station, Manchester. Closed March 1958. Demolished 1962.

IMPERIAL /METROPOLE 308 Ashton Old Road Openshaw  c.1914       c.1919

MIDLAND PICTURE THEATRE / MIDLAND HOTEL THEATRE  Peter Street Built 1898. Architect: C. Trubshaw. Opened as theatre 1903 – ballroom conversion. 1914 – dismantled and returned to ballroom use. Opened as Mid Cine 13^th December 1920. Closed June 1922. Extra hotel bedrooms.
MOSLEY PICTURE HOUSE Stott Street, Beswick  Opened 1912/13. 1937: (BTH) Prop., C. Tune. By 1941: (BTH) Props., Mrs. W. N. Watts & J.V. Tune. 603 seats. Booked at Hall by Man. Two shows nightly. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone East 0140. Stations, Manchester termini. Closed 1961.
Moss Side Assembly Rooms Ashcroft  (1907)

Moss Side Council Rooms  Librarian  (1907)

MOSTON IMPERIAL PALACE (1) Moston  Opened 1914. Closed 1920 - replaced by MIP (2) on different site.            
MOSTON IMPERIAL PALACE  (2) Hartley Street, Moston  Opened 1920. Architect: Geo. E. Tonge. 1937: (W.E.) Prop., Moston Picture House Co. Ltd. 1,028 seats. Phone Collyhurst 2160. By 1941: (WE) - Props. Moston Imperial Palace, Ltd. 1,000 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 2d. to 7d. Proscenium width 22ft. Phone Collyhurst 2160. Station, Victoria, L.M.S. Closed 1959.

NEW CENTRAL Paley (later Garden) Street Collyhurst  Opened c.May 1936 – replacement for Central on different site..
NEW MANCHESTER HIPPODROME (WE) see Hippodrome (2) / Ardwick Empire

NEW OXFORD THEATRE / OXFORD PICTURE HOUSE Oxford Street  Opened 15^th December 1911. Prop. PCT. Talkies January 1929 – The Singing Fool. To G-B with circuit February 1929. To Emery circuit August 1931. 1,150 seats. 1937as Ox Cine: (WE) Prop., Oxford St. & Market St. (Manchester) Cinemas Ltd. 1,172 seats. Phone City 1402. By 1941: (WE) Props., Oxford Street & Market Street (Manchester) Cinemas, Ltd. Phone Central 3402. 1,150 seats. Booked by Emery’s Circuit, Midland Bank House, Cross Street, Manchester. Continuous. Prices 1s. to 2s. Phone Blackfriars 7876. 12^th June 1960 to Rank, re-named New Oxford. 854 seats. Closed 25^th October 1980. Now U.S. fast food shop.

NEW POPULAR PICTURE HOUSE  / POPULAR PICTURE PALACE / Chapman Street Hall Chapman Street, Hulme  Opened 1912. By 1941 as New Pop: (Electrocord) - Props., A. L. Ward & A. C. Goulden, 6 Brown Street, Manchester. 400 seats. Booked at Manchester. Phone Deansgate 3542. Twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 6d. Phone Moss Side 2158. Closed 20^th December 1958. New Majestic Picture Playhouse Hulme see Popular Chapman Street

NEW STAR PICTURE PALACE Goodman Street Blackley  Opened c.1912. Closed 1914.

NEW TEMPERANCE PICTURE HALL Dean Lane Newton Heath  Opened pre-1914. Closed 1914/5.

Odeon Parker St/Mosley St - proposed

ODEON THEATRE / PARAMOUNT THEATRE Oxford Street  Opened 6^th October 1930 – The Love Parade. Architect: Thomas Verity (Verity & Beverley). Organ: Wurlitzer 4/20(22) on lift + Piano (pipework divided). 2,920 seats. 1937: (WE) Prop., Paramount (Manchester) Th. Ltd. 2,914 seats. Phone Central 8172. To Odeon 1939. By 1941: (WE) Props,. Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 3s. 6d. Phone Manchester Central 3964. Café attached. All Manchester stations. Organ removed to Free Trade Hall 1972/3. Closed 1973, twinned 1974. Eventually 7 screens. Closed 2^nd September 2004. Sold. Empty.

ODEON / RIVIERA CINEMA de LUXE Cheetham Hill Road  Opened 1931 (planned as King George). By 1941: (WE) - Props., Odeon (Cheetham Hill) Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Continuous Mon. to Fri. from 6.30 p.m. Three shows on Sat. Prices 8d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 44ft. Stage18ft. deep; seven dressing-rooms, Phone Collyhurst 1188. Station, Manchester. Closed to film 1964. Bingo. Later Top Rank Bowl.

ODEON THEATRE Withington Road, Whalley Range  1937: (WE) Prop., Odeon Theatres Ltd. 2,039 seats. Phone Moss Side 1668. 1941: (WE)  - Props., Odeon Theatres, Ltd., Old County Cinema, Marlow, Bucks. Phone Marlow 695-9. Continuous. Prices 9d. to 1s. 6d. Booked at Moor Hall, Cookham, Berks. Café. Stage; four dressing-rooms. Phone Moss Side 1668.

ODEON / WEST END CINEMA  Withington Road/Dudley Road, Whalley Range  Opened 8^th December 1930 – King of Jazz OR All Quiet on the Western Front. Architect: John Knight. Prop., T. Royle.  By 1941: (WE) - Props., West End Cinema (Manchester) Ltd. 1,032 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous, Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly, Sat. and holidays. Price, 6d. to 1s. 6d. Proscenium width 46ft. Phone Moss Side 1668. Cafe attached. Stations, Manchester termini.

ODEON / UCI Filmworks  The Printworks Centre:  20 screens. Re-named November 2005.

ODEON / UCI the filmworks Trafford Centre, The Dome:  20 screens. Re-named November 2005.

OGDEN PICTURE PALACE Ogden Street, Ardwick  Opened pre-1914. Closed before 1920

OLYMPIA PICTURE HOUSE  Hyde Road, Gorton  Opened 1911. Cap. 750. 1937: (WE) Prop., Gorton & District Cinema Co. 778 seats. Phone East 0436) 1941: (WE)  - Props., Gorton & District Cinemas, Ltd. 750 seats. Booked by Bert Abbott at Regent, Fallowfield. Continuous. Three shows Sat. Stage 12ft. deep; two dressing-rooms, Prices 5d. to 10d. Phone East 0436. Stations, Belle Vue & Hyde Road, L.M.S. Retail use.

OPENSHAW PICTURE HOUSE Ashton Old Road  Opened c.1919 Closed 1930s.

OPERA HOUSE / NEW QUEEN’S THEATRE / NEW THEATRE  Quay Street  Opened 1912. Architect: Farquharson, Richardson, & Gill. November 1914 films. Organ: Jardine 2/41 straight tubular pneumatic action (later removed - Melbourne Cathedral, Australia). 1915 renamed. 1920, re-named. 1937 as Op Hse: (Legit.) Prop., Howard & Wyndham Theatres. SG46: Prop.: Howard & Wyndham, Ltd., King’s Theatre, Edinburgh. Bookings: Howard & Wyndham, Ltd., 2-5 Old Bond Street, London W.1. Cap.: Stalls 905, boxes 24, D. circle 519, balcony 540. Barring clause: Radius of 20 miles prior and one month after (inc. Sundays). No broadcasts, talking films or television before engage­ment. Once nightly 7, or as arranged. Matinées Wednesday and Saturday. Musical comedy, ballet, opera, plays, drama. Stage: Pros. 37ft. x 37ft. (to pelmet 24ft. 9 in.) max. depth 42½ft., height under flies 28ft. 7 in., width between fly galleries 50ft. 9 in., clearance pipes under 25ft. 3 in., stage to grid 57ft. 3 in. Counterweight gear, 37 lines. Hemp lines 56. Revolving stage. Elec. equip.: Voltage 4001230 A.C., 50 cycles. Foot­lights, four colour circuits, eight ind. dimmers, two ends and one centre on one dimmer each, Battens, five with colour circuits, ind. dimmers each colour. Spot bar, 16 spots, each dimmer controlled, seven dips with three dimmers on three colour dips switch controlled. Floods on Stage6. Twelve 4-colour f-o-h pre-set spots, auto control, one master and two switches per lamp. Four f-o-h follow­ing limes, two (60 amp.) focus lanterns and two sunspot arc lanterns. One acting area barrel with four lanterns, all dimmer controlled. Supply: One motor generator 400 v. to motor side giving output of 400 amps. at 100 v. D.C., dynamos side for arcs, Perches: Two focus sunray lanterns with colours. Two 25 amp. carbon arc lanterns. Dips: Four stage plugs to take 25 amp. incandescent for plug. Flies: One ind. incandescent plug to take 40 amp. Spare: Two 80 amp. switches for touring companies’ spot boards. Fittings: Four 8ft. lengths with 32 B.C. lamp holders. Two 6ft. lengths with 22 B.C. lamp holders. Four 2ft. lengths with 8 B.C. lamp holders. Six 3-way 25 amp. teak-cased plug boxes. Four 10 amp. teak-cased plugs. Dressing rooms: 16 and six chorus, acc. 40. Orchestra pit: Acc. 30. Resident quintet. Leader, 1st violin, ‘cello, bass, pianoforte. Amplifying equip.: Two turn-table re­producer and microphone. Can be switched to front of house or stage speakers. Closed 1979. Bingo. Re-opened 1984 under Palace Theatre Trust. Architect: Smith & Way. 1920 seats. Listed Grade II. Still open as theatre.

OSBORNE THEATRE / ROYAL OSBORNE THEATRE Oldham Road (No 2)  Opened 13^th April 1896. Architect: J. J. Alley. Owner: W. H. Broadhead – his 1^st theatre. William Henry Broadhead  (1907) To Emery circuit - cinema from 1935. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Osborne Th. (Manchester) Ltd. 1,800 seats. Phone                Collyhurst 1491. By 1941:  (BTP) Props., Osborne Theatre (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. Phone Ardwick 2226. 1,591 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Collyhurst 1491. Station, Manchester. Destroyed by fire 19^th/20^th October 1958.

PALACE  Collyhurst Street, Rochda1e Road Collyhurst  Opened pre-1920. 1937: (WE) Prop., Palace (Collyhurst) Ltd 834 seats. Phone Colly. 2480. Closed 1957 – licence conditions.

PALACE  Manchester Rd, Droylsden  Opened 1910. Demolished 2003.

PALACE CINEMA Collyhurst Street, Roch­dale Road (WE) - Props., J. F. Emery, Midland Bank House, Cross Street, Manchester. Phone Bla 7876. 700 seats. Prices 3d. to 6d. Continuous. Proscenium width 20ft. Phone Col 2480. Station, Victoria, L.M.S.

PALACE PICTURE HOUSE / Ice Palace Derby Road Chorlton 1918 1931/2 June To October Yearly

PALACE PICTURE HOUSE Derby Street, Cheetham  ?Opened 1933. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Manchester Ice Rink Ltd. 2,000 seats. Phone B’friars 9698. Closed 1940.

PALACE THEATRE / PALACE of VARIETIES Oxford Street  Opened 1891. Architect: Alfred Darbyshire & F. B. Smith. 1896 altered by frank Matcham.  Walter de Frece  (1907) 1909 bioscope. 1913 auditorium rebuilt by Bertie Crewe. 1937: Prop., Moss Empires Ltd. (Legit.) SG46: Prop.: Manchester Palace of Varieties, Ltd., Oxford Street, Manchester, 1. Agents: Moss Empires, Ltd., Cran­bourn Mansions, London W.C.2. Cap.: Boxes 32, stalls 1,016, circle 636, balcony 539. Barring clause: 40 weeks before, two weeks after. Six miles. Once nightly 130. Wednesday and Saturday 2. Twice nightly 5.45 and 8. No matinées. Musical attractions variety and revues. Stage: Prosc. 42½ft. x 30ft., min. depth 30½ft., height under flies 21ft., width between fly galleries 50ft., stage to grid 60ft. Counter-weight gear under consideration. 60 sets of hemp lines. Elec. equip.: Voltage 200 D.C. (15 amp. supply A.C. for special effects, 230 v.). -Footlights, three circuits. Battens, five, each with three circuits, all ind. dimmers. Equipment being renewed. Dressing rooms : Five and one chorus, acc. 24. Sep. band room. Orchestra pit: Acc. 26-30. Resident orchestra 15 (pianoforte, four violins, ‘cello, bass, flute, tenor sax, two clarinets, two alto sax, two trumpets, two trombones, drums). Amplifying equip.: Two turn-table reproducer and microphone. Reproducer switched to front of house and stage speakers. 1953 – façade modernised with glazed faience. 1979 sold by Moss’ Empires to Raymond Slater. Restoration & renovation under Theatre Trust. Architect: Derek Boulton (Smith & Way). Sold to Apollo Leisure 1990. Listed Grade II. Cap. 2000.

PALATINE PICTURE HOUSE  Palatine Road, Withington Opened November 1920. Prop., H. D. Moorhouse circuit. 1941: (BTP) - Props., South Manchester Picture Co., Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,034 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Didsbury 3605. Station, Manchester. Closed March 1960.

PALLADIUM Rochdale Road Blackley 1937: (WE) Prop., Palais-de-Danse Ltd. 1,800 seats. Phone Collyhurst 1058.

PARAGON PICTUREDROME Rosamond Street Chorlton-on-Medlock  Opened 1912. Closed 12^th July 1930.

PARK PICTURE HOUSE Grease St A1exandra Park   Opened c.May 1915. 450 seats. Closed 1928. 1937: 400 seats. (Closed)

PAVILION  Church Street, Newton Heath  Opened c.1921.       1937: (BTH) Prop., Central Cinema Co. (Newton Heath) Ltd. Phone Failsworth 1144. 1941: (BTH) - Props., Central Cinema Co. (Newton Heath) Ltd. 1,000 seats. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Two changes weekly. Station, Dean Lane, L.M.S. Closed to film 1964. Bingo. Closed 1995.

Pendleton Town Hall f., Chief Cashier  (1907)

People’s Concert Hall Lower Mosley Street  Opened 1846. film 1897  Closed 1897. 

PICCADILLY THEATRE Piccadilly  Opened Monday 31^st July 1922. Architect: Percy Hothersall. M.D. Joseph Muscant. Organ: Wadsworth 4m 52 stop straight. Cafés, and restaurant with dance floor attached. Organ rebuilt by Jardine-Smith 1933. Closed 1937. Empty. Sold c.December 1938. Converted to retail arcade/offices above.
PICTURE HOUSE - Props., Provincial Cinematograph Theatres, Ltd., New Gallery Regent Street, London W.1.

PICTURE THEATRE Varley Street Miles Plaiting Opened 1911? Closed 1914.

PICTUREDROME  Palmerston Street, Ardwick          1937: (WE) Prop., B. H. Franks Cinema Circuit. 800 seats. Phone Ardwick 1802. Closed 12^th July 1958.

PICTUREDROME / New Central Hall 136/140 Stretford Road  Films from 1909. Opened as P‘drome 1910. Closed 1920.
PLAYHOUSE  Oldham Road, Miles Platting  Opened July 1920. 1,827 seats. 1937: (RCA) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,900 seats. Phone Collyhurst 2878. 1941: (RCA) - Prop., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square, London W.1. Phone Gerrard 7887. 1,847 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone Collyhurst 2878. Station, Miles Platting, L.M.S. 1970 bingo. Closed 1986/7. Demolished 1998.

PLAZA  Gorton Lane, West Gorton  Opened c.1929 – on site of King George V. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Amusehalls Ltd. 480 seats. Phone East 0425. 1941: (BTP) - Props., Amusall’s Ltd., Orme’s Buildings, Parsonage. Phone Bla 0485. 640 seats. Booked by Amusall’s, Parsonage, Manchester. Twice nightly. Mats. three times a week. Prices 3d. & 9d. Phone East 0425. Station, Manchester, L.M.S.

PLAZA Rochdale Road 1937: (BTP) Prop., A. Sereno. 824 seats. Phone Collyhurst 1274. 1941: (PTA) - Prop., J. Sereno. 1,100 seats. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 3d. to 9d. Station, Exchange.

PLAZA / ROXY / La SCALA 207 Oxford Road, All Saints  Opened 1914 OR 1922. Organ: Wadsworth 3m straight. By 1941 as La S.: (WE) -Props., Asso­ciated British Cinemas, Ltd., Golden Square, W1. 2,200 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Phone Ardwick 3559. Stations, all Man­chester termini. Closed part WWII. To Emery circuit. re-named Roxy. 1958 re-named Plaza. Organ scrapped c.1959. Closed 1965.

POPULAR / Trinity Chapel Mission Hall Cossack later Chapman Street Hulme  Opened 1912. 1937: (El’cord) Prop., M. Ward. 400 seats. Phone Moss Side 2158.

POPULAR PICTURE HOUSE Range Road Whalley Range       Opened pre-1922.

POPULAR PICTURE PALACE Wilson Street, Miles Platting  Opened c.1911. 1937: (BTH) Prop., Miles Platting Picture House Co. Ltd. 450 seats. Phone Failsworth 1940. By 1941: (BTH) - Prop., Miles Platting I.L.P., 2a Enoch Street, Miles Platting. Phone Collyhurst 2601. 350 seats. Booked by E. J. Howarth. Two shows nightly, three mats. weekly. Prices 3d. to 5d. Station, Miles Platting, L.M.S. Closed c.1947.

PREMIER CINEMA Cheetham Hill Road  1937: (WE) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,887 seats. Phone Cheetham Hill 2076.

PRINCE’S CINEMA  Grey Mare Lane  Openshaw  Opened 1912. Props., as King George’s. c.1,000 tip-up seats. Ernemann machines – 110’ throw. By 1941:  (BTP) - Prop., Prince’s Cinema (Openshaw) Ltd. 7, Imperial Buildings, Oxford Road, Man­chester, Phone Ardwick 2226. 1,600 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone East 0641. Stations, Manchester termini. Closed to film 1965.
PRINCE’S THEATRE Peter Street/ Oxford Street  Opened 1864. Architect: Edward Salomons. Altered 1869 & 1901 by Alfred Darbyshire. George Lee  (No 1) (1907) Prince’s Theatre, 1937: Prop., Prince Littler (Tours) Ltd. (Legit.) 1940 closed & demolished for new ABC cinema – not built owing to war.

PRINCES Grey Mare, Openshaw  1937: (BTP) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. Phone East 0641.

PRINCESS CINEMA Conran Street, Harpurhey  Opened c.1912/13. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Blackley Palais de Danse Ltd. Phone Collyhurst 2025. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd., 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 795 seats. Continuous. Booked at H.O. Phone Collyhurst 2025. Station, Manchester. 1958 – converted to indoor market. Destroyed by fire November 1996.
PRINCESS PICTURE THEATRE  Raby Street, Moss Side  Opened 1912. 1937: (BTP) Prop., G. S. Smith           . 550seats.              Phone Moss Side 2724. 1941: (BTP) - Props., Cinebuilders, Ltd. 540 seats. Booked at Hall. Two shows nightly. Prices 4d. to 9d. Phone Moss Side 2724. Stations, London Road, Central & Victoria. Closed 1938. (Closed.)

Public Hall Alderley Edge

QUEEN’S PARK HIPPODROME Turkey Lane Harpurhey  Opened 1904. Architect: J. J. Alley. Prop., W. B. Broadhead  (1907) 1937: Prop., J. & M. Baum (Variety) Phone Collyhurst 2622. Closed 1952. Demolished 1966.

QUEEN’S PICTURE HOUSE Ashton Old Road Openshaw  Opened 1912. Organ: Wadsworth 2m  straight. To ABC c.1932. 1,205 seats. 1937: (WE) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,205 seats. Phone East 1040. To independent c.1945. To Star. Organ removed c1959. Closed to film 1961. Bingo.

QUEEN’S PICTURE THEATRE  Stockport Road, Longsight  Opened c.1912/13. 1937: (WE) Prop., Cinemas (Manchester) Ltd. Phone Rusholme 1004. By 1941: (WE) - Prop., Cinemas (Man­chester) Ltd., 20 Brazennose Street, Man­chester. Phone Blackfriars 6965. Booked by Chas. Ogden, 196 Deansgate, Manchester. Twice nightly. Two changes weekly. Prices 6d. to 1s. Phone Rusholme 1004. Station, London Road, L.M.S. Films collected Man­chester offices. Closed 1961.

QUEEN’S THEATRE (No 2)  / LONDON MUSIC HALL  Opened 1862 – hotel conversion. 1870 – reconstructed by Edward Salomons. R. Flanagan  (1907) Demolished.

RADNOR CINEMA Radnor Street, Hulme  (WE) Opened 1937 - Prop., Arthur Murray, 1,150 seats. Prices 6d. to 1s. Continuous Mon. to Fri. Twice nightly Sat. Booked at Hall. Pictures and Variety. Proscenium width 40ft. Stage 7½ft. deep; two dressing-rooms. Phone Moss Side 1563. Station, Manchester Central. Bombed 1940 - never re-opened.

REGAL CINEMA  1937: (BTH) Prop., Hollingwood Cinemas Ltd.

REGAL / WHITEHALL CINEMA Old Lane, Higher Openshaw  Opened 1913. Re-opened, re-named Regal 1953. By 1941: (BTH) - Prop., Whitehall Cinema Co., Ltd. 800 seats, Booked at the Hall by H. Vost, Twice nightly. Prices 4d. to 1s. Phone Droylsden 1325. Stations, Victoria or Exchange. Closed to film 1964. Bingo. Closed c.1980. Warehouse. 1990 upper storey demolished – now ground floor only.

REGENT / GEM 688 Rochdale Road Queens Park  Opened pre-1913. Re-named Regent 1931. 1937: (B.T.P.) 950 seats. 1941: (BTP)  - Prop., Mostyn Sereno. 600 seats. Continuous Sat., twice nightly. Booked locally. Mat., Mon. and Thurs. Prices 3d. to 9d. Phone Bla 2004. Closed 30^th June 1956.

REGENT SUPER Princess Road South  1937: (BTH) Prop., Gorton & D. Cinema Ltd. Phone Moss Side 1955.

REX PICTURE HALL Ashton Old Road, Openshaw  1937: (BTH) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. 600 seats. Phone East 0162. 1959 closed by fire.1941: (BTH) - Props., Openshaw Picture Hall Co., Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 830 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone East 0162. Station, Manchester, L.M.S.

Ritz Whitworth Street  - dance hall with cinema-like façade.

RIALTO Bury New Rd., Broughton  1937: (WE) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,430 seats. Phone Broughton 1367.

RIVIERA CINEMA DE LUXE  1937: (WE) Prop., Mancunian Circuit Ltd. 2,300 seats. Phone Collyhurst 1188.

RIVOLI CINEMA Rochdale Road  1937: (RCA) Prop., B. Kanter. 1,200 seats. Phone Collyhurst 1280.

RIVOLI Gorton  1937: (RCA) Prop., B. Kanter. 1,512 seats.

RIVOLI CINEMA Denmark Road, Rusholme Opened Saturday 24^th August 1929 – dance hall conversion. 1,500 seats. Continuous 6.30 to 10.30, two shows Sat. Prices, 6d, 9d, 1s, 1/3d. 1937: (WE) Prop., D. Rosenfeld. 1,055 seats. Phone Ardwick 1542. By 1941 - Prop., Rivoli Estates, Ltd., 44, Corporation Street, Manchester. 1,110 seats. Booked at Hall. Continuous. Prices 4d. to 1s. Stage 18ft. deep; three dressing-rooms. Phone Ardwick 1452. Station, Manchester Central. Closed 1960. Now part of Manchester University School of Music.

ROY PICTURE HOUSE / ROY PICTUREDROME Ashton Old Road, Openshaw Ardwick  Opened 1913. 1937: (Pic’tone) Prop., Northern Amusements Ltd. 400 seats. Phone East 0501. By 1941: (Picturetone) - Prop., G. Dewhurst. 600 seats. Closed 1958.

ROYAL CINEMA Buckley Street, Rochdale Road  Opened 1913/14. Re-built, re-opened 19^th August 1928 - Chang. (Picturetone) - Prop., A. Wilkinson & J. Mooney. 600 seats. Two shows nightly. Two changes weekly, Prices 2d. to 5d. Station, Victoria, L.M.S. 1937: (BTP) Prop., T. Irwin. 600 seats. Phone Collyhurst 1611.

ROYAL OLYMPIC  Opened 1838. Closed 1841. Demolished.

ROYAL PAVILION PICTURE PALACE Brook Bottom Mossley c.1915 - c.1917

ROYAL PICTURE THEATRE Pendleton - Props., Pendleton Pictures Co., Ltd. Booked at 26 Cross Street, Manchester by J. F. Emery. 780 seats.

ROYAL PICTUREDROME  297 Ashton New Road Openshaw  Opened December 1914. Prop., A. W. Kenny. Tyler ‘Indomitable’ machines. Generated own power. To ABC 1^st July 1929. Closed 1930. Rebuilt as New Royal. See ABC/NewR

RUSHOLME PAVILION  Opened 1910. 1937: (Legit.) 900 seats. Demolished 1965.

RUSHOLME THEATRE / RUSHOLME ELECTRIC THEATRE Wilmslow Road/Great Western Street  Opened 1910 – converted from horse-drawn bus depot. 1923 re-opened as theatre. Rep. closed 1940 – reverted to cinema. 1941: (BTP) - Props., Rusholme Cinema, Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 938 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Rusholme 2284. Station, Manchester. 1950s chief: Bob Cartlidge. Kalee 8’s, Vulcan arcs, WE Mirrophonic sound. Closed 1971. Demolished – filling station.

St. JAMES’S THEATRE (No 2) Oxford Street  Opened 1884. H. A. Jordison  (1907) Became cinema 1908. Demolished.

St. John’s Rooms Pictures & varieties 1908. Sole mgr. D. C. Mackenzie. Prob. closed by 1910 licencing.

SAVOY / BUTLER ELECTRIC THEATRE / ELECTRIC Butler Street Ancoats  Opened c.1912. BTH sound November 1931. 900 seats. Booked at Theatre. Two shows nightly. Four Mats. weekly. Prices 2d. to 6d. 1937: (B.T.H) Prop., Butler Street Electric Theatres Ltd. 900 seats. Phone Collyhurst 2761. Closed by enemy action 1940. Rebuilt as Savoy March 1950. Closed 14^th April 1956.

SAVOY Manchester Rd., Chorlton-cum-Hardy 1937: (RCA) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd                       1,134       R.C.A (Chorlton 3708)

SAVOY Heaton Moor  1937: Prop., Northern Amusements Ltd.

SAVOY / ELECTRIC / Duke of Edinburgh Hall Denmark Street Moss Side  T. J. Winson  (1907) Opened as Electric 1912. Re-named Savoy 1925. Closed 1931/2.

SAVOY / PALACE / PALACE PICTURE THEATRE Darncombe Street Moss Side

SAVOY Raby Street  Closed  c.September 1931. To be re-built as State – didn’t happen.
SAVOY PICTURE THEATRE/PALACE Renshaw Street, West Gorton      Opened pre-1914. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Savoy (Manchester) Pic Pal Co. Ltd. 500seats. Phone East 1004. Closed c.1948.
La SCALA Oxford Road  1937: (WE) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd 2,100 seats. Phone Ardwick 3559.

SCALA PALACE Withington  1937: (WE) Prop., Pendleton (Scala) Ltd. 665 seats. Phone Didsbury 3301.

Secular Hall Rusholme Road  Licensed from 1913-1915. Closed to film ?1920.

SHAFTESBURY CINEMA THEATRE  Stock­port Road, Longsight  Opened 1913. 1937: (BTP) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. Phone Rusholme 4103. By 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Shaftesbury Cinema Theatre Co. (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,050 seats. Two shows Sat. Continuous rest of week. Booked at H.O. Phone Rusholme 4103. Station, Manchester. Closed 1961.
SHAKESPEARE Halliwell Lane, Cheetham Hill  1937: (WE) Prop., Swinton Entertainments Ltd. 900 seats. Phone Cheetham Hill 2180.

SHOWCASE Hyde Road, Belle Vue  Opened 1990. 14 screens / 3,200 seats

STAMFORD CINEMA Audenshaw  (BA) - Prop., L. Bailey, 22 Cathedral House, Manchester. 650 seats. Closed 1940.

STAR PICTURE THEATRE  / APOLLO / STAR KINEMA 133 Great Ducie Street, Strangeways  Opened March 1912. Cap. 600. Mgr. G. K. Timperley. Renamed Apollo May 1915. 1922 – re-named Star after box fire.  By 1941: (BTH) - Prop., L. Burgess. 600 seats. Two shows nightly. Station, London Road, L.M.S. Closed 1940s.

State ex-Savoy Raby Street - proposed not built

STRETFORD PICTURE PALACE / Mission Hall  Licensed 1910.

STUDIOS 1 - 5 / STUDIOS One & Two / TWIN REGAL KINEMAS  Oxford Road Opened August 1930. Architects: Pendleton & Dickenson. 1937: (WE) Prop., Piccadilly Picture Theatre (Man’ter) Ltd. 1.500 seats. Phone Central 2437. 1941: (WE) - Prop., The Regal (Manchester) Ltd. (Charles Ogden circuit). 1,600 seats. Continuous. Prices 8d. to 1s. 9d. Stage. 6ft. deep; four dressing-rooms. Phone Central 2437. Café attached. Manchester Stations. Fitted ‘Ardente’ Deaf Aids. To Star  Circuit & re-named Studios 1961. Closed 1985. 1993 The Dance House for Northern Ballet Co.

STUDIOS  6 -  9  Deansgate House, Deansgate  Opened 1973 in new development basement. Prop., Star circuit. Closed 1990.

STUDIOS / QUEEN’S PICTURE HOUSE Ashton Old Road Ardwick  Opened 1912. By 1941: (WE) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30-31 Golden Square W1. 1,205 seats. Booked at H.O. Evenings continuous and Mats. daily. Continuous from 2p.m. Sats. Phone East 1040. Stations, Mayfield or London Road, L.M.S. Closed to film 1961. Bingo. Closed 1970s. Demolished 1986.

SWAN / PALATINE / COSY CORNER  Levan (later Swan) Street  Opened September 1915 – The Beggar Girl’s Wedding. Closed. Re-opened as Swan May 1926. Closed 13^th December 1930.

TATLER (1) / MAJESTIC / KINEMACOLOUR / ELECTRIC Oxford Street/Whitworth Street West  Opened 1911/12. Re-named Majestic mid-1931. ?re-named Tatler. Demolished for new Tatler 1935.

TEMPLE TWINS / TEMPLE PICTORIUM  Cheetham Hill Road Opened November 1913. 750 seats. 1937 as TP: (BTH) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit   900 seats. Phone Collyhurst 1939. By 1941: (BTH) - Props., Temple Pictorium (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. Phone Ardwick 1226. 846 seats. Booked at H.O., Manchester. Phone Collyhurst 1939. Station, Manchester. Twinned. Closed 1992. Demolished  late 1990s.

THEATRE ROYAL CINEMA / THEATRE ROYAL (2) Peter Street Opened 1845. Architect: John Gould Irwin & Francis Chester. 1875 interior remodelled. Architect: Edward Salomons. Lessee: Edmonstone  Shirra (No 1) (1907) 1921 to J. F. Emery. Re-constructed internally as cinema 4^th September 1922 – Way down East. To Paramount February 1926. ABC interest 1929. Talkies – WE 13^th may 1929 – The Doctor’s Secret. 1932 organ: Compton 3/10 on lift. To HDM circuit June 1935, closed, improved, re-opened 11^th November 1935. 1937: (WE) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse (Cinema) Ltd. 2,010 seats. Phone Blackfriars 9366. By 1941 - (WE) Lessees, H. D. M. (Cinema) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,943 seats. Booked at H.O. Café attached. Phone Blackfriars 9366. Station, Manchester Central, L.M.S. 1960 organ removed. Altered for Cinerama4^th November 1963. Closed to film 13^th August 1972. Bingo. Closed 1990. Listed Grade II. Now a nightclub.

TIVOLI THEATRE of VARIETIES / ALEXANDRA / FOLLY MUSIC HALL Opened 1865 – chapel conversion. Rebuilt 1897. Architect: Perceval. C. A. Wilks (1907) Became cinema 1921. 1927 closed by fire. Demolished 1936.

TOWER CINEMA  Piercy Street, Ancoats  Opened c.1912 1937: (BTP) Prop., Union Cinemas Ltd     700 seats. Phone Ardwick 2926. By 1941: (BTP) - Props., Union Cinemas, Ltd., 15 Regent Street, S.W.1. Phone Whitehall 8484. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Proscenium width 22ft. Phone Ardwick 2926. Station,Victoria, Manchester. Closed May 1953.

TRAFFORD PARK KINEMA Trafford Park  Opened 1910 – conversion of glasshouse.

TRAFFORD PICTURE HOUSE Talbot Road, Old Trafford  Opened c.April 1922. Prop., Reed, Snape, & Ward circuit. 1,,200 seats. Mgr. Edward Boultbee. 1937: (RCA) Prop., A.B.C. Ltd. 1,150 seats. Phone Trafford Park 0986. By 1941: (BTH) - Props., Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., 30/31 Golden Square W1. 1128 seats. Booked at H.O. Continuous. Two Mats. weekly. Continuous Sat. from 2p.m. Proscenium width 30ft. Phone Trafford Park 0986. Station, Old Trafford.  Closed 29^th November 1958.

TRIANGLE PICTURE HOUSE Stretford Road Hulme  Opened 1922. 1937: (M’tone) Prop., Jacobs & Mitchell. 425       seats. Phone Central 3487. Closed March 1939.

TROCADERO Wilmslow Road, Rusholme  Opened August 1912.  1,000 tip-up seats – single floor. 2d, 4d, 6d. 1927 organ: Compton 2/7 single chamber fixed console. ?AWH sound. 1937: (BTP) Prop., Platt Picturedromes Co. 900 seats. Phone Rusholme 4751.         1941:  (BTP) - Props., Platt Picturedrome, Ltd. 850 seats. Two shows daily. Two changes weekly. Prices 5d. to 7d. Phone Rusholme 4751. Organ scrapped c1960. Modernised & re-opened February 1963. Closed by fire 1973 or 1975. Ruins demolished. Later Kwik Save on site.

VICTORIA  Great Clowes Street, Broughton (BTP) - Props., Broughton Cinema, Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. Booked at H.O. Phone Blackfriars 9847. Station, Manchester

VICTORIA AVENUE CINEMA Victoria Avenue, Blackley  1937: (WE) Prop., S. Haling. 1,198 seats. Phone Cheetham Hill 1401.

VICTORIA HALL Daniel Street, Butler Street, Ancoats  Opened pre-1914. 1937 as New Victoria Hall: (W.E.)               1,400 seats. By 1941 - Props., Manchester & Salford Wesleysan Mission, Two shows Sat. Price, 3d. Station, Central, C.L.C. closed 1940s.

VICTORIA PICTURE THEATRE Hyde Road/Stockport Road Opened Christmas Eve 1910.

VICTORY CINEMA Varley Street, Miles Platting  1941: (BTP) - Prop, A. E. W. Pentelow, ‘Wood­lands,’ Grindleford, Sheffield. Phone Grindleford 152. 400 Seats. Booked by Prop. Twice nightly. Mat. Sat. Prices 3d. to 6d. Phone Collyhurst 1294. Station, Miles Platting, L.M.S.

VICTORY Moston   1941: (BTP)

VICTORY PICTURE HOUSE Charles Street, Blackley  1937: (BTP) Prop., H. D. Moorhouse Circuit. Phone Collyhurst 2495. 1941: (BTP) - Prop., Victory Pictures (Manchester) Ltd., Imperial Buildings, 7 Oxford Road, Manchester. 1,367 seats. Booked at H.O. Phone Collyhurst 2495. Station, Manchester, L.M.S.

VICTORY PICTURE HOUSE Varley Street Miles Platting  Opened c.1920/21. 1937: (BTP) Prop., H. Willoughby. 450 seats. Closed March 1949. Re-opened July 1949. Closed 1951.

VICTORY PICTURE THEATRE  Charles St/Canran Street Harpurhey  Opened November 1920. Prop. H. D. Moorhouse circuit. Closed ?1930s

WHITE CITY Old Trafford  Opened 1909 – conversion of ballroom. Closed 1910. Now retail park.

WHITEHALL CINEMA Openshaw  1937: (BTH) Prop., Whitehall Cinema Co. 1,000 seats. Phone Droylsden 1325.

WHITWORTH THEATRE Whitworth Street Railway Arch

WINTER GARDENS  / Tivoli Theatre of Varieties Peter St City Opened as Win Gar Cinema Thursday 8^th December 1921 – Peck’s Bad Boy. Burned down New Year’s Day 1927.

WYCLIFFE / CAPITOL TALKIE THEATRE / ROYAL ELECTRIC  Princess Road, Moss Side  Opened c.April 1915. By 1941: (WE) 1,547 seats. Three shows daily. Phone Moss Side 1988. Station, London Road, L.M.S. Wycliffe from January 1948. 1968 Bingo. Closed 1987. Demolished 1990.

YORK CINEMA York Road, Hulme               1937: (WE) Prop., Exors. of Thomas Royle. 1,414 seats. Phone City 5123.

 

MANNINGTREE Essex

PLAZA CINEMA / CINEMA / CINEMA THEATRE  Station Road Opened mid-20s. Conversion of factory with added entrance block. Prop., Tozer & Linsell circuit. 1926 – name cut to Cinema. By 1923 Plaza – Philip J. Cleife. To E. Owen Cooper c.1936. Modernised. 450 seats. By 1941: (MPA) - Props., E. Owen Cooper Theatres, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Phone Manningtree 123. Three changes weekly in 1959. Cl