Wigan Album
Platt Bridge
4 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 29582
Thanks to Sean White, Landlord of the Victoria pub Haigh for the photograph,
Spent many a Saturday matinee watching, Ken Maynard, Buck Jones, Hopalong Cassidy, and Flash Gordon, in this picture house. One character that did frighten me to death, was the Scorpion. Late thirties. I was taken there by one of the next door's elder children.
Thank's to Sean. This is a brilliant advertisement for local entertainment during the years of the great war and the age of silent films. 100 years ago at the Palace of Platt Bridge, our ancestors would have enjoyed their trips to the pictures to see American serial, The Purple Domino, episode one, Playing With Fire, starring Lucille Love. Marvelous!
Only went to this cinema once,it was showing The Vikings.It closed very soon after
Saturday afternoon matinees and a bag of toffee from dickies balls temperance bar across the road, I think about 1956-7,lovely times.