General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Are you all in your Dotage!! Yes there were long queues, I was in them, about 45 to 50 years ago! Yes you would have spent many hours dancing there, about 50 years ago! Momac, the lush carpeting would have been not worth two blows on a ragmans trumpet by the time that the Ritz closed! As far as I'm aware the Ritz, like other cinemas was privately owned and it shut because no bugger went!! By the way I do think it was a magnificent building! Here's a link to an article:

http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Wigan/RitzWigan.htm