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Roxy Cinema

Roxy Cinema

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Uploaded on: January 19, 2015

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Roxy Cinema

A June 1925 panorama of Burnley town centre. The Roxy was trading as the Andrews Picture House.

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HJHill
HJHill on January 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm

At the time of the photo, the Empire was still a live theatre. Films came on 19 May 1930.

The Victoria was a live theatre to the end. It was a 2,000 seater and was demolished in 1955. Woolworth’s in the building to the left of it in the photo extended their old building, with architectural sensitivity, and opened it in November 1958.

During WW2 the Victoria was the (evacuated) base for the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells companies from London, from which they toured. Burnley even hosted Lawrence Olivier and Vivienne Leigh for a while.

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