Wigan Album

Thanks Duncan, Another great historical photograph. I haven't seen any photos of the Empire but it was a building with no frontage.

There was still a music hall sign up there in the forties/ fifties.We used to poke about under the window of the projection room looking for bits of film that had been discarded.

I remember going there once to watch a film about submarines, 'RUN SILENT RUN DEEP' (I was fascinated with submarines and still watch the old war films about them now, when they are on the TV. I watched one yesterday 'THE ENEMY BELOW' Must have seen it a dozen times <g>). When I came out, I was full of small white flakes, that looked liked dandruff, but it was bits of plaster falling from the roof.<g>

Thanks Ron, I am pleased you enjoy them.

Whereabouts was/is coopers row?

Carol, Cooper's Row is off Wigan Marketplace, where the John Bull Pub is (the white building just visible to the left of the photo.)