New Empire Super Cinema
Great Horton Road,
Bradford,
BD1 2ER
Great Horton Road,
Bradford,
BD1 2ER
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The post code and map location are wrong. A close fit is Bradford BD1 2ER; the site of Bradford College’s Advanced Technology Centre. The college had acquired the hotel and theatre site in the very early 1970s.
The 1952 fire was not in the gallery, nor did it break through the roof.
According to the Yorkshire Observer on 25 January 1952 the fire was in the stage area and it “destroyed the cinema screen and seriously damaged the stage and decorations”. A fire officer was reported: “Luckily we managed to confine the outbreak to the stage, but another ten minutes and the whole of the cinema would have probably been alight”.