Royal Pavilion Cinema

Dean Street,
Mossley, OL5 OPE

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thejokebloke1
thejokebloke1 on March 31, 2021 at 10:18 pm

Just to correct a couple of things from above. The Cinema finished life as a bingo hall and the fire that destroyed it was September 1961 and not 1963. Also an old people home was built on the site and not housing.

thejokebloke1
thejokebloke1 on March 31, 2021 at 12:09 am

This cinema was operated for a time by the Co-op.I copied and pasted the following; The Mossley Society had a cinema, the Royal Pavilion at Brookbottom, which for several years during the silent period ran as a departmental venture. However, the society, unable to meet the cost of re-equipping for sound, leased it to a company which operated three other cinemas and which intended to convert it to sound.“ Thereafter, it was treated by the Society simply as an income bearing asset, the educational and cultural benefits of a co-operative cinema remaining unrecognized.

thejokebloke1
thejokebloke1 on March 31, 2021 at 12:04 am

This a post 1949 aerial view of the Royal Pavilion Cinema.Renovations were made around this time and If you look at the other aerial view you will see that the building does not look like the same one. This was not a purpose built cinema and made use of an old bobbin shed that was formerly part of a nearby cotton mill. It ran from 1910 to September 1963.