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The Old Lyric UpHolland
The Old Lyric UpHolland
Photo: Duncan
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Item #: 19565
This photo was taken in 1987, the Lyric closed as a picture house around 1958, it then became the parish hall until 1969. For a brief period it was the Lyric Disco, the front of the building was painted with psychedelic colours! After a period of dereliction the building became a clenaing goods warehosue which is still going. How many ageing "kids" remember the school Christmas party being held here?

Comment by: Helen on 12th January 2012 at 08:50

I don't remember any parties Duncan but I used to go to the Lyric most Saturday afternoons with Carol Dickinson whose Grandfather was co owner of the Lyric, think he & his brother were builders around the area. They built the pair of semi's we lived in at Holland Moor. Good afternoons in free seats watching Flash Gordon & The Lone Ranger etc ! Also used to go there in the evenings with my sister later on, we would get the bus there & walk back, up the steps & across the field to Hall Green & down to Holland Moor. Anne would have been about 14 & I was 10yrs old.

Comment by: Duncan on 12th January 2012 at 10:12

The parties were after the cinema close, was also used for scouts, guides, etc, church functions and dances. the last school party would probably have been Xmas 1968. The school had moved to a new building on Mill Lane in 1969 and had a proper hall there which was used for all school functions.

Comment by: Alan on 12th January 2012 at 14:51

Used to get all my window cleaning tackle from M&D in the 90's to 2005 apart from the ladders..

Comment by: Ellen on 12th January 2012 at 19:12

Good to see that the building is still standing and in use. Spent many Saturday evenings there as a teenager. We didn't much care that the movies were not brand new,--they were new to us!

Comment by: Martin Pearce on 15th January 2012 at 21:09

Did the parties and also the scouts through the sixties. The base for the scout hut we were to have was layed but never used to the rear of the building.

Comment by: Joan Neville nee Penington on 20th January 2012 at 20:48

Remember going to New Years eve dance with my mum and dad early 60s . Then with friends when the discos were on.

Comment by: Dorothy Smith on 12th February 2012 at 21:31

Went to all my infant & junior school xmas parties there also used to go to the brownies & guides there as well we all used to run riot around the balcony geat days.

Comment by: Kathleen Hook ( nee Wright) on 28th February 2012 at 20:56

We had the first wedding reception here in 1958 when it first became he village hall.

Comment by: Dennis Dickinson on 17th May 2012 at 20:50

I remember going to the Saturday afternoon session at the Lyric in the early 1950s. I would have been 7 or 8. I went with a neighbour Pauline Ashcroft.

Comment by: Linda on 10th May 2015 at 20:02

I remember going to see Desmond Decker at the Lyric in the late 60s. Not very many turned up to see him.

Comment by: ken hesketh on 6th June 2015 at 18:14

recall vividly going to see bill haley in rock around the clock at the lyric..rocking in the isles that evening ..a school pal from roby mill lead the rocking .roy turner who lived just past the pub on the left hand side of the road..

Comment by: Mandy Trevarton on 5th November 2015 at 12:44

Hi, I am looking for any pictures of when this building was the Lyric, my husband and family own M&D Cleaning Supplies and I would love to have the old pictures in reception for a surprise for them.

Comment by: william bentley on 8th December 2018 at 21:58

thats right i went to watch rock around the clock because they would not show it in wigan great night of rock and roll bill bentley

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