Wigan Album
Where is this - Quiz
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Photo: Dennis Miller
Item #: 19197
It is within the current Wigan Metropolitan area... but NOT in Wigan.
Where is this? Try not to Google, the clues are there... I could have blanked out the name of the building, but that IS the clue.
*Note* If Brian or any other WW admin is unhappy with this kind of quiz photograph in WW Albums, I fully understand if it is refused.
Great Photo Dennis but not a clue where it is I knew every single one of the Cinemas in Higher Ince though !!
Quite a bit more stylist than the old Empire Cinema. That cinema was in a narrow street, off the Market Place, Central Wigan. Last film I saw there was " King Kong"( The old version)
I think it's on a Gate.
I think Ive seen that photo in the past forward magazine
is it Platt Bridge ?
No idea where it is, but I'll have a guess that it is now the Monaco at Hindley.
Is it the Monaco ballroom?
dennis, it looks like where the bethnell green comunity centre in hindley green is ?
on second thoughts seeing the other comments i too think its the monaco.
My first thought was the Monaco, then I thought it was the place in Platt Bridge that became Thompsons, then Target.
The Monoco used to be the Rex,not the Empire
Was it in leigh.
standish ?
No not Monoc' roof doesn't like right, lower part looks like the Bethel at Hindley Green, but was this a cinema before a church? Is this Pemberton Cinema?
It was in leigh.Bradshawgate
definately not the bethel,that has only ever been a library and church/community hall
Stuart P is right, unit four Pemberton.
No it's not Garry, unit 4 was the Carlton.
Could be Billinge
The Gate I meant was Bradshawgate Leigh,I know there was an Empire there,but I don't recall it being the New Empire ,but it could have been years before my time.
Betty got it right, it was in Bradshawgate, Leigh.
Spud, I missed your 'Gate' ref... you got it right as well, you share the honours with Betty.
I lived in Leigh from 1948 to 1958,there were seven cinema's then,and Leigh was a great place to live in those day's,the Empire is now an Iceland.
The way you worded this Dennis, suggested to me that the building still existed, which apparently is not the case.