Old Manchester cinemas

Big Swifty

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The post on the history forum about the old Pink and Green editions of the M£N & Chronicle reminded me of the old days when the cinema page liste what was on at all the old Manchester flicks - there were wonderful names like the Roxy, Hollinwood, the Cintra, Harpurhey, the little Tudor cinema down a back street in Didsbury, the Trocadero in Rusholme, the Coronation in Northenden (basically a tin shack), probably a Rialto somewhere, the list covered a whole page of broadsheet, virtually all long gone.
Many were fleapits, but that was the heyday of cinema. I wish I could remember more names.
Anyone care to jog my memory? Thanks.
 
Cine City in Withington. Now a patch of wasteland next to Sainsbury's (that used to be the White Lion / Withington Ale House)
 
Remember the temple very well...used to go there to watch Saturday matinee...also remember if you had certain amount of tea wrappers you got in free once a year and got a drink and sweets....good old days.
Also remember going in the temple pub when I was 16.
Changed so much round there now even temple school been knocked down and moved.
 
Don Cinema Theatre in Ancoats Manchester now the metro stop called holt town

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The one in Withington next to the White Lion? Have they gone now? What a shame. When I left Withington the cinema was called the Scala. A bit further down Palatine Rd was the Palatine cinema. I saw many a pic there. Also in the Casino, near corner of Platt Lane & Wilmslow Rd. Quite upmarket.
There was the Regent, on Denmark Rd, not far from the old Hulme Hippodrome - real old-style variety.
God, I should write a book (well, I have, but not on that subject).
 
We used to walk to the Roxy every saturday (or was it sunday) afternoon to watch the matinee.
Lurch was very mean. He could have been one of my school teachers if he had only applied himself more.
 
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Is the Metro Cinema is Ashton still there? Doubt it with the cineworld. Is the building even there anymore?
 

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