Mersey Square
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Mersey Square
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 20 Jul 2010
Looking across Mersey Square, towards the towering, faience-tiled façade of the Plaza Cinema, an Art-Deco styled building which opened in 1932 as "The Plaza Super Cinema and Variety Theatre"; construction was particularly difficult as the site involved cutting into the sandstone cliff at the rear from which 10000 tons of rock had to be excavated to a depth of 42 feet. Having operated mostly as a cinema from its opening in 1932, the Plaza became a Mecca Bingo Hall in 1967 and operated as such until its closure in 1998. By that time, it had been Grade II* listed by English Heritage (Historic England List Entry Number: 1257697 http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1257697&resourceID=5 Heritage Gateway); it was by then the last remaining building the Borough of Stockport still capable of full-scale theatre and entertainment use. Thankfully, it has now been restored as a cinema and theatre, showing classic films and staging live shows (http://stockportplaza.co.uk/heritage-restoration/ The Plaza).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.409233
Longitude
-2.161508