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The cinema over the top of the conservative club was called The Castle cinema,if you look on the advertising board at the back on the left hand side it looks like it says Castle so the location could be correct

Great photo. The little lad looks like he's wearing his Dad's cap. Thanks for posting.

Great photo! The Castle cinema was always known as the Vic when I was growing up in the fifties.

Lovely photo. The dog reminds me of Bill Sykes' dog in Oliver Twist.

It was alway the Vic to me,they used to let you in to watch X films when under age.It then became a youth club and auction house.

Irene, I had the same thought as you, Bullseye was the dog's name. A lovely picture, though of hard times,just at the end of WW1.

Often wondered why Hindley is pronounced with the Hin rhyming with sin. Hind - a female deer - is pronounced rhyming with kind.

It proberbly was Ernie originally but things change over the years.The 'Prodesse' Hindley coat of arms does show a Deer on it.(Hind).

Hindley was was known for the hind(deer) and lea(meadow)That's what I was told at school by Mr Scarborough at St Peter's school.Hence Hindley

I was told the hind (female) lived in Hindley and the hart (male) lived at Hart Common.