Former Empire cinema, John William Street
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Former Empire cinema, John William Street
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 2 Oct 2022
This looks like a cinema building, is identified by two other contributors as such, and is shown as a 'picture house' on the 1932 map. The website cinematreasures.org says it opened on 8th March 1915, closed as a commercial cinema in 1971 but two smaller screens are still used by a private cinema club. The remainder of the building was used at one time as a discount store Image but now appears to be used for selling antiques. Surprisingly the Grade II listing text (entry 1288963) says nothing about this being a cinema.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.649397
Longitude
-1.783173