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Above the barge is the Picture House and opposite Hope Baptist Chapel. The timber structures have been replaced with a building providing appartments on the upper floor and various facilities on the ground floor including Visitor Information Centre.

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Above the barge is the Picture House and opposite Hope Baptist Chapel. The timber structures have been replaced with a building providing appartments on the upper floor and various facilities on the ground floor including Visitor Information Centre.

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Picture showing original rows of seats still in place but in a dirty condition.
The main centre stairs which were used as the main entrance to No1 screen can still be seen at the bottom of the picture.

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Taken when I was granted access to the old ABC picture house in the centre of Halifax, The then owner had to make a route up to this vantage point which had been boarded away.
The screen was said to be still in the building somewhere but has never…

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This shows the view down Broad Street showing the Odeon Cinema (now a bingo hall) and the now demolished Bowling Alley.

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This is a view up Broad Street. The then new bowling alley was later converted into a supermarket and has since been demolished. The bowling alley was opened in February 1964 by Coronation Street star Pat Phoenix who played Elsie Tanner. The large…

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'West of Shanghai' is a 1937 film about a Chinese warlord, who holds a group of oilmen and missionaries hostage in a remote Chinese outpost.

'52nd Street' - 1937 film of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

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Four films on this week, Charlie Chaplin in The Pilgrim, an all start cast in The Old Oaken Bucket, Alma Rubens in Find the Woman, and Douglas Maclean in Bell Boy 13.

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Four films on this week, Betty Balfour in The Sea Urchin, The Verdict, Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle, and a star cast in Brothers.

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Two films on this week, Daring Youth, and Thy Name is Woman.

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Two films on this week, Pearl White in Know Your Men, and George K. Arthur and The Wheels of Chance.

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Three films on this week, Pretty Ladies with Tom Moore, Go West with Buster Keaton, and Rose of the World.

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Two films on this week, Blood and Sand with Rudolph Valentino and Love! with Louise Glaum and James Kirkwood.

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Two films on this week, The Lost World and Easy Money.

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Two films on this week, Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Passionate Adventure.

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Two films on this week, The Iron Horse and Man & Maid.

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Two films on this week, Betty Compson in Woman to Woman and The Acquittal with Norman Kerry and Claire Windsor.

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Three films on this week, Is Love Everything?, The Great Love and The Lady Who Lied.

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Three films on this week, Headlines, The Adventures of Maisie and The Pleasure Buyers.

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Two films on this week, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Helen's Babies.

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Two films on this week, Flaming Youth with Colleen Moore, and Jackie Coogan in Long Live The King

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A wonderfully evocative picture of a time when road works only needed a Keep Right sign. Hope Baptist Church is on the left and the Picture House to the right. The bridge over the road between the two parts of Crossley Mill can be seen.
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