Shalimar Cinema

I started going to this cinema back in 1974 , then it was still the Classic in the eight years since it closed i saw many many films ,it was still a good cinema back in the late seventies ,but when new owners told over it The Shalimar within a couple of years needed to spend money on the general up keep of the building a nice picture house in its day ,but lack of investment in the cinema it closed . The Shalimar suffered the fate of other cinemas in south Manchester like the Sale Odeon the Palace in Levenshulme and the Burnage Concord at the end of 1984/new year of 1985 there were not many cinemas left in south Manchester , you had to travel in city centre or in to Stockport. Yours Robert Kincaid

The Kinematograph Year Book charts the blighted history of the Rivoli. KYB 1937 simply has Ben Kanter as proprietor and 1520 seats as the capacity. KYB 1942 has “(closed)”. Understandably, KYBs 1945, 1947, 1950 and 1954 make no mention of it. 46 years of existence; and closed for 30% of the time!