The Old Hanroy Cinema, Deiniolen
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The Old Hanroy Cinema, Deiniolen
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 21 Sep 2006
Now a glaziers' workshop, this building was the village cinema between 1952 and the coming of television (snowy pictures from the Holme Moss transmitter) around 1959. The roof was of corrugated iron and a shower of rain would effectively drown out the film, not that it was easy to hear much over the riot that would be going on inside. I spent hours here watching such films as 'Abbot and Costello Meet the Ghosts' and 'The Mario Lanza Story'.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.146907
Longitude
-4.12765