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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson
I cannot give you detail because I cannot find my copy of 'An Accrington Mixture' which I edited and published a few years ago. In it there is an essay about Accy's cinemas. I think it says that the first was The Dowry, it was a converted engineering works at the bottom of Dowry St. The front door was on Moore St.
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The article in Bob's book by Frank Watson says the Dowry Street Picture Palace was opened on Monday 28th February 1910 in a building dating back to 1860. The cinema could accommodate between four and five hundred people and closed in 1916.
The King's Hall was probably the second cinema to open in an old Methodist Chapel. It was originally called the Picturedrome but changed its name to the King's Hall in 1915.