Back in the day there were loads of cinemas within the Borough of Burnley, I believe around 15.

Could any of our older supporters (including me) name them?

May I start with the Roxy which was behind the town hall.

Odeon
Closed 17th November 1973

Brierfield and Nelson?

Pentridge

Rosegrove

Tivoli

Roxy, Tivoli, Coliseum, Pentridge, Empire.

Palace

Oxford

Majestic stoneyholme

I think there were two together in the town centre one being the Palace,could be wrong though.

Imperial

Empress

Savoy

Studios 123

Studio 1/2 ? Next to broadsword

I think there was an Alhambra on Trafalgar and an Empress up near the Angel pub.

Where was the Oxford F/C dont remember that, not that my memory is anything to boast about.

The Royal

The Grand...next to the Palace

Well we have named 15 between us ,not sure about Oxford and Royal.

Think they may be cigarettes

Globe Works in Padiham? Is Padiham Burnley Borough?

The Royal was on Robinson Street

C&J There were two cinemas in Gods country but cant remember the name of the one next to the police station.

Kings on Thorn street.

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Looking at all the replies there must be a rake of old buggers on the board,just waiting for CT now.

The Grand Theatre was the one next to the Police Station

winsomeyen wrote:Well we have named 15 between us ,not sure about Oxford and Royal.

Think they may be cigarettes

Was oxford not the pentridge?

Did the Pentridge become the Embassy Club and then a night club.

winsomeyen wrote:Looking at all the replies there must be a rake of old buggers on the board,just waiting for CT now.

Im just good at cinema history!

winsomeyen wrote:Did the Pentridge become the Embassy Club and then a night club.

It became the Circulation club.It was on Holmes Street.

The Coliseum in Rosegrove also became a Cabaret club..I think tjat was called the Embassy or maybe just the Cabaret club.not sure now.

Picture House, Rawtenstall.

Found this from the Burnley Express....

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/opin ... -1-6871446

Legend has it that the Unit4 at Brierfield was technically the first " Multiplex Cinema " in the UK when it re-opened as a Cinema in 1969..although, as ever, I stand to be corrected...

The Enclosure, It was called the Caberet Club in Rosegrove with a sister club in Brierfield, the artistes ?used to do two shifts a night,one at the Caberet club and one at the club in Brierfield.
The clubs were owned by Brian Tattersall who I used to play cricket with.
When the powers that be stopped gambling at the clubs they could no longer afford to pay for quality turns and went by the wayside.

I wish I could spell Cabaret

The Coliseum in Rosegrove became the Cabaret Club. I used to work there as a waiter in the Summer months, when I was at Uni. That would have been in the late 60s. The owner was a guy called Brian Tatersall, who bought a flash, white convertible American car, which had been used in an early Bond film. It used to be parked outside the club regularly.
I think the Pentridge did become the Embassy before becoming the Circ. I ended up down the Circ the night of the famous one apiece draw with Preston, which got us promoted. There used to be pub opposite the Pentridge called, I think, the Bee Hive.
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Just mentioned this to my old man and he had his 2 shillings to stick in.

Tivoli - on Colne Rd (used to play asian films on a Sunday)

The Grand - Centre of Nelson

The Empress - near DW/JJB in town which then became a bingo hall. He watched the last film shown in there he says starring Tommy Steele and was titled "Half a Sixpence".

The Odeon - Where TK Maxx/Staples is - He says they brought the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang there and he got to see it.

Picture House - Rawtenstall "I watched loads of films in there skiving school"

........ He's mentioned loads but most if not all have been mentioned already on here.

There was one called the Continental up Duke Bar which specialised in films with saucy titles but (I am told as I, ahem, never went) that was about as saucy as they got

I remember taking an early girlfriend to see " The Elephant Man " at Unit4, Brierfield.. The 4th screen always seemed to be showing heavily edited and censored " Gentleman's Interest " films, such as " The Devil in Miss Jones " & other such titles...

Was the former bingo hall opposite Rockys new fire stn previously a cinema?
Hassys became a bingo hall before a store.

What was the name of the one on the corner of Shale St and Redruth St, just off Pendle Way?

It was the Imperial Picture House.

Was thinking empress... But it isn't became a bingo hall ???

Savoy Colne, Saturday afternoon at flicks, 6p downstairs, 9p upstairs, fights everywhere.

green_parrot wrote:It was the Imperial Picture House.

Thanks, Green_Parrot.

Always remember my dad telling me, that there used to be loads of cinemas in Burnley and that they all began eith the letter T.
Obviously as a child this used to puzzle me, until he explained.
"Well there we Tivoli, t'imperial, t'empress, t'empire.......etc.

Unfortunately he passed away several years ago, but still miss him being daft.

My dad used to be able to rhyme them all off, and there were so many of them years ago.

Are those pics of the Imperial as it is today? I used to have a great auntie & uncle lived on Shale Street.

The Nuvic in Settle - now the Co-op.