Grand Cinema
11-15 St. James's Street,
Burnley,
BB11 1QL
11-15 St. James's Street,
Burnley,
BB11 1QL
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Located adjacent to the Palace-Hippodrome Theatre. The Grand Super Cinema was a conversion of the Liverpool Victoria Insurance company’s offices. It opened on September 18, 1922. Due the its location on a slope, the stalls seating area was reached by going downstairs. There was a balcony which had a side-slip on one side of the auditorium. It had a 17 feet wide proscenium.
Always independently operated, it was closed on 12th May 1956 with Alan Ladd in “Desert Legion” and John Mills in “Above Us the Waves”. It was never equipped to screen CinemaScope films.
The Grand Cinema was demolished and a department store was built on the site. This too has been demolished and a MacDonald’s restaurant now stands on the site.
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Ken Roe
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The building was a conversion of the earlier built Liverpool Victoria Insurance companies offices in Burnley. Opened Monday, September 18th, 1922. Demolished in 1956 in favour of a department store, that in turn too was demolished for the current McDonalds.