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Old 29-07-2011, 08:41   #31
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Old 29-07-2011, 08:44   #32
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Old 24-09-2011, 12:41   #33
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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.
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Old 24-09-2011, 20:29   #34
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Noboby,s mentioned the Ritz and Empress in Clayton.
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Old 24-09-2011, 22:35   #35
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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
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Old 25-09-2011, 06:25   #36
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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.
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Old 25-09-2011, 07:55   #37
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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
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Old 25-09-2011, 08:37   #38
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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
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Old 25-09-2011, 08:44   #39
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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
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Old 25-09-2011, 19:03   #40
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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.
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Old 26-09-2011, 08:54   #41
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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
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Old 09-01-2012, 05:12   #42
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I used to go dancing down the Ritz-met a boy who owned 9 suits! He came from Blackburn, though!
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Heyup, lad!
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Old 09-01-2012, 09:37   #44
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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
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Old 18-01-2012, 20:09   #45
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the pictures in ossy was the palace,rhyddings street where the shopfitters used to be, my doctor was on that street dr millar
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