Pavilion Cinema
90-92 Old Street,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
OL6 7SD
90-92 Old Street,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
OL6 7SD
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sadly i have heard since my last post that the owners have ripped out the projection box area and toilets in the balcony to make more room ect ….shame realy as when i worked there there was still a LOT of the equipment for things like the light faders , cinema scope control panels ect in the projection room ..projectors had gone but still think there was something that projected slides down to the screen …also just of the projection room there was a spiral staircase to nowhere ..that was above the prize bingo shop ..soo im asuming that when it was a cinema that was an access to projection room from the ground floor!
would like to point out that it was never the cosmo bingo club ….that is in the next town over in stalybridge….when it was a bingo hall i worked there …at 1st it was star bingo from what i was told …then when i started there it was coral bingo then Gala up to it closing and moving to a purpose built club …we even had elderly customers back then when i 1st started who remember going as kids to the cinema who said they had wooden benches at the front of the stalls !
The “Picture Pavilion” is a rare listing in the Kinematograph Year Book 1931. Sound was installed but it was still a “disc” system. Perhaps the works in April/June 1933 involved installing equipment for sound-on-film. “Western Electric” is indicated in KYB 1942, 1947 and 1954.
A few pictures of the Pavilion taken in March 2008 here:–
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