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I don't remember any parties Duncan but I used to go to the Lyric most Saturday afternoons with Carol Dickinson whose Grandfather was co owner of the Lyric, think he & his brother were builders around the area. They built the pair of semi's we lived in at Holland Moor. Good afternoons in free seats watching Flash Gordon & The Lone Ranger etc ! Also used to go there in the evenings with my sister later on, we would get the bus there & walk back, up the steps & across the field to Hall Green & down to Holland Moor. Anne would have been about 14 & I was 10yrs old.

The parties were after the cinema close, was also used for scouts, guides, etc, church functions and dances. the last school party would probably have been Xmas 1968. The school had moved to a new building on Mill Lane in 1969 and had a proper hall there which was used for all school functions.

Used to get all my window cleaning tackle from M&D in the 90's to 2005 apart from the ladders..

Good to see that the building is still standing and in use. Spent many Saturday evenings there as a teenager. We didn't much care that the movies were not brand new,--they were new to us!

Did the parties and also the scouts through the sixties. The base for the scout hut we were to have was layed but never used to the rear of the building.

Remember going to New Years eve dance with my mum and dad early 60s . Then with friends when the discos were on.

Went to all my infant & junior school xmas parties there also used to go to the brownies & guides there as well we all used to run riot around the balcony geat days.

We had the first wedding reception here in 1958 when it first became he village hall.

I remember going to the Saturday afternoon session at the Lyric in the early 1950s. I would have been 7 or 8. I went with a neighbour Pauline Ashcroft.

I remember going to see Desmond Decker at the Lyric in the late 60s. Not very many turned up to see him.

recall vividly going to see bill haley in rock around the clock at the lyric..rocking in the isles that evening ..a school pal from roby mill lead the rocking .roy turner who lived just past the pub on the left hand side of the road..

Hi, I am looking for any pictures of when this building was the Lyric, my husband and family own M&D Cleaning Supplies and I would love to have the old pictures in reception for a surprise for them.

thats right i went to watch rock around the clock because they would not show it in wigan great night of rock and roll bill bentley