The Lyric Cinema
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The photograph on this page of The Lyric Cinema by Bob Embleton as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Bob Embleton Taken: 18 Jun 2007
Taken from the church green. One of the most important buildings in a teenager's life in the 1960s. It opened on the 28th October 1939. In the late 1960s it was split into a dual-use building with a bingo hall in the "stalls" while the cinema (with a new widescreen) continued in the "circle" upstairs. It was bought in 1997 for £250,000 and converted into New Life Baptist Church opening on Easter Saturday, 11th April 1998. It looks as though it is now undergoing another change.
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