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i remember when accrington
had ......... how many cinemas ?

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what i know 1! but there probably was more, was told there were quite a few in ossy too!
didnt the accy one next to shifters,.. yes shifters, do you remember that pub;),... used to be haunted??

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.......beechy, is your pic billy fury?, my mum was into him:D

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hi panther
shifters was the odeon
saturday morning club
kids only

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the one and only
your mum has good taste

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I have a question about The Saturday Morning Club at the Odeon.... did I dream this, or was there a serial shown about a Native American head that was kept in a bag and could work magic? I seem to remember it being called Chico Rainbow, or something like that. Does anyone remember that, or have a made it all up?

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I used to work at Shifters. Never saw a ghost.:D

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hi
cant say that i remember that
all serials ended on a high
just to ensure you watched the following week
things dont change that much

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(1)Kings Hall, (2)Palace,(3)Odean,(4)Ritz,(5)Princes,(6)Empire and all within 2 mins walk from the arndale. used to go to em all.;)P.S. beechy Billy Fury was the Greatest British Artist ever, had more top 20 hits in the 60s than either the Beatles or the Stones, i know cos i just ordered the first ever Fury DVD on friday.lol

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hi cashman
take the prize
billy fury will always be the best british
rock star the beatles once failed an audition to be his backing band
robbie williams eat your heart out

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Billy Fury? did he sing "shakin all over".. what happend to him? and did he really have one arm longer than the other?

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No, that was Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. Billy Fury is best known for his ballads like Halfway To Paradise, but he cut some killer rock 'n' roll sides - Gonna Type A Letter, Don't Knock Upon My Door - records which came closer to matching the sound of US rockabilly than any other British artist.

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Wasn't he a scouser too? Can't have everything I suppose ;)

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Best rock 'n' roll singer to come out of Liverpool, bar none, in my opinion...although I expect there may be a few who might disagree! ;)

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a few may disagree, but they'd be wrong.;)

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The King's Hall was not a very salubrious place.......but we went because it was cheap and I liked Flash Gordon....and I think they used to show Our Gang, which I loved. It was only twopence to get in, but it was always rowdy and you used to get the kids upstairs throwing orange peel at you.
I am going back a long time.
The Ritz used to change the programme up to 3 times in a week. I used to walk past it on my way to school and I would spend time looking at the stills that they put in a case outside, to tempt you to see the picture.

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aint that why people called the kings hall
the bug hut
wot appy days

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Yes, Beechy, it was.

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the "Bug Hut" was just around the corner from where i was born, so was very handy to trot round past the (electric showroom) i think it was,then before entering the flicks, tapping a fag off some guy going in the central billiard hall below.:D

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thats news to me, would be interested to know if there was,before my time n that takes some doing.:p

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Think the Odeon was originally called the Regal. Before my time, but I'm sure I've seen a photo of it somewhere.

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that could well be the answer? as for a picture house anywhere else,cant for the life of me think.:confused:

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Just remembered where I've seen it...it's on Atarah's site.

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I'm sure it was, but it is well before my time too.

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There is a picture of the Regal Cinema in the Gallery....under the Category Old Accrington.

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The Regal was opened in 1936, I believe it was renamed the Classic and then the Odeon.

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i remember going to the empire cinema in
oswaldtwistle it was then turned into a dance place
i think:confused:

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It was. We had a thread about it earlier this year.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ire-28841.html

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no i meant the the cinema:D, i would have loved to have seen it, but then the punters in shifters looked half dead anyway:eek::p;)

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yeh thats what i heard, always sat upstairs n never encountered it though.it must have had more sense.:)

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I have memories of the Empire and the Princess, was it the Princess that was taken over by the Asian community for Brollywood films? I seem to remember something like that happening before I left town.

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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

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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.

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:confused:hi
i 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

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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

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The memory plays tricks when you get a bit long in the tooth. :D You're right, of course.

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only reason for my better memory- we used to play in it as kids,had great fun in the dim hole,using the trapdoors from under the stage.:)

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:Di thought you would be to busy looking after kids falling out of trees:D

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The Regal? That was the Odeon before it was the Odeon.

There was the Queens Hall in Church and the Palladium in Ossy and Great Harwood had a cinema too as did Rishton and Clayton-le-Moors. Can’t remember the names though.

Although not a cinema don’t forget the Hippodrome theatre.
Plus the various dance halls like The Ritz, Conservative Club, Joe Mort’s, Knowlmere Street and Church Con.

There was lots for people to do in their leisure time in those days.

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Memories OK for that one Jim.......Thats exactly where it was.

There is a thread to the Hippodrome:
Hippodrome - Accrington Web

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why now have a vue in accrington and blackburn surely they could have choosen a different brand of cinema

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is a cinema not just a cinema
nowadays
they used to be called picture houses
all with solid sounding names as previously quoted

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Remember Rock Around the Clock think at the Empire, people bopping in the ailses, a young cashy was mesmerised.;) never seen the like before or since at a picture house.

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goign again tonight - sherk. i must be mad

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A blast from the past with Wilson & Kepple

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftYSMk4BLto&mode=related&search

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I think my new workplace; Boots, is on the site of the old cinema; I haven't seen any ghosts yet, maybe they were specific cinema haunting ghosts with no interest in relocating ?

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I agree, Billy Fury was always my hero, still play his songs regularly.

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I enjoyed the link thanks :)- reminded me of the time I saw Nat Jackley do it on stage at Blackpool (must have been late 40s)

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I think its the brand that chooses the town ;)

Vue can make more money by having a Vue in both towns rather than just one, and they built a bigger cinema showing more things than the old Blackburn one so that ended up closing didn't it?

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What about the Hippodrome on Blackburn Road? I think when it closed it became Accringtons first Supermarket.

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The Hippodrome was at the bottom of Ellison St. (a theatre not a cinema)

On Blackburn Rd, between Ellison St and Oxford St, was the building which housed the 1st Accy ASDA in 1962. The building burnt down a few years ago whilst it was Glynn Webb, who built its present replacement, (recently taken over by another similar trader whose name escapes me).

Before ASDA in 1962 - I think it was 'car sales' - but if anyone knows different, please say so.

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it was indeed a car sales room
nightingales car showrooms

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Prior to that even It was the coop which was was in it's heyday at that time and owned several properties in the area.the property across oxford st up to the doctors was all coop down to blake st.
happy times?

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i want to go and see that 'run fatboy run' someone said the other day that its naff, has anyone else seen it?

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That is correct.

I used to live at 148 a house with a bay window between the Co-op plumbers and painters & decorators and the Co-op clothes store up to 1955 or so.

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I remember it well, used to be on Saturday mornings in the late 70s.

Check this link to bring back memories!

PS I remember it being 10p entry. I lost mine one day & my mum wouldn't let me go! 10p for goodness sake. Probably why I'm careful with money now (tight as a gnats chuff).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvfFia7QEVg

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148 must have been between the coop (now bingo) and the docs Myrtle house.
There are a few obscure shops there now, always changing use- ballet/dance shop - once was a 2nd hand shop there

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In the late forties and early fifties as you came up Oxford Street to join Blackburn Road, on the left corner was the Co-op furniture department and on the right corner the Co-op clothes department.

Myrtle house was Doctor Devlin’s surgery and next to that towards the town centre was the Co-op plumber and painters. Then came our house (148) rented from the Co-op and we shared the back yard with the plumbers and painters. Next to our house was the Co-op clothes department. Then came the top of Oxford Street.

Years later the plumbers and painters shops and our house became an amusement arcade.

The picture is of my brother (in shirt sleeves) with Jim Laycock sat on the wall in front of our house - 148.