Co-operative Supermarket on Barlow Moor Road
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Co-operative Supermarket on Barlow Moor Road
Image: © Phil Champion Taken: 19 Apr 2014
The large building on the left, now a supermarket, was once the Palais de Luxe cinema. Prior to branding as 'The Co-operative Food' this had long been a Hanbury's supermarket, and back in the 1970s, a Tesco store. During its earlier life as a cinema there would have been an imposing entrance with green and cream tiles, fronted by a glass canopy, both long since cleared away. The white painted wall marks shape of the vanished frontage. See http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/forgotten-photograph-palais-de-luxe-in.html for a photo of how this would once have looked
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Image Location
Latitude
53.43823
Longitude
-2.274834