Chorlton land marks ….. catch 'em while you can

So, this is the story which is light on detail but does have the pictures.

The side of the cinema no one looked at, 2024

The cinema opened in 1920, had several names and was arguably the biggest and most impressive of the five Chorlton cinemas which have offered a heap of film experiences from Tom Mix to Towering Inferno.

All closed up and nothing left to sell, 2024

If you can remember saying you were going to the “flicks”, faced the dilemma of whether to go for a Kiora or a choc ice and on occasion opened the fire doors for your friends, then the golden age of the cinema was yours.

The Precinct came along fifty or so years later, and in its hey day provided a selection of retail possibilities from a coffee to a roll of wood chip, lots of frozen food, suntan lotion and a copy of the Stretford Journal.

Sadly some landmarks have gone, and those sipping their lattes outside the former Woolworths can only mourn its passing with its Ladybird clothes, Pick and Mix selections and from the 1950s those distinctive round vanilla ice cream in the their tub shaped wafer cones.

Location; Chorlton

At least the car park has survived .... for a while, 2024

Waiting for customers, 2024

Closure, 2024

Pictures; Chorlton landmarks, 2024, from the collection of Andrew Simpson