The Eccles Cross
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Eccles Cross by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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The Eccles Cross
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: 7 Aug 2013
Built in buff terracotta and brick, this fine building opened in September 1920 as the Regent Cinema. It closed as a cinema in 1962, becoming unsurprisingly a Bingo Hall. It lasted in this guise for only 4 years before lying empty until 1983 when it became a wine bar, and later a night club. In 1999 it re-opened as a Wetherspoons pub under the name The Eccles Cross, the original of which had once stood close by.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.483379
Longitude
-2.334649