Empire Cinema
14 Deardengate,
Haslingden,
BB4 5QJ
14 Deardengate,
Haslingden,
BB4 5QJ
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Originally built as a vicarage. The building then became a laundry, before being converted into the Empire Cinema in 1936. It was independently operated by the same proprietor as the town’s other cinema, the Palace Cinema on Beaconsfield Street.
The Empire Cinema was still operating in 1966, but later that year it became the New Empire Bingo Club. In recent years it has been a Whitehead’s supermarket, and in 2010 operates as Nisa Extra supermarket.
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Opened as the New Empire Bingo Club in 1966, Licensee of the bingo club was Leslie Haworth who also operated a bingo club in Preston. This club attracted 800 players on opening night, with Coronation Street actor Kenneth Cope (at the time playing ‘Minnie’s Sonny Jim’ making a personal appearance.