Wigan Album
Pemberton
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Photo: Mick LD
Item #: 31498
Converted to a squash club 1979/1980 after spending time as a bingo hall.
Later housed a variety of businesses.
Photo taken August 2005.
All the time I was stationed in Pemberton, I was only called into this cinema on one occasion to deal with a clown that was misbehaving. Just evicted the culprit expeditiously.
there are a lot of old queens in pemberton.
Oh,if only you weren't speaking metaphorically Albert.
I don't remember this building as a cinema in Pemberton. Wasn't there another cinema further down Ormskirk Road called Unit 4?
I think this is the place where we'd been to see the film Gonks Go Beat, in the mid-Sixties. A few Wigan musicians had appeared in the film i.e., The Trolls.
Elvis, Hayley Mills, South Pacific, to name a few...And then Harry's chippy for a bag of chips...Stuff the internet! Some folk have never lived...
Used to play squash there with my old friend Kev Leigh!
Mrx this was unit 4.
Mr X. the Unit 4 was near the Halfway House, it is a carpet warehouse now. It was The Carlton Cinema originally then became a social club and reverted to a cinema around 1970, finally closed about 20 years ago.
Eddie Unit Four was half a mile down the road at Carnegie.
Was one of these cinemas mentioned the Sportsman club in the 60/70?
PW Unit 4 at Carnegie was the Sportsmans.
Yes Pw the Carleton.
Double seats upstairs.Went every Friday with my then girlfriend.Christine Lathom.Great memories
Earliest recollection is of the Saturday afternoon two penny 'Rush' when we could supplement our Friday penny pocket money In the early 1940's I, and a friend attended the 2nd house Saturday evening performance. Each week I booked seats J1 and 2. My Aunt worked there as an Usherette. When I eventually took a girl friend and moved to the double seats upstairs my Parents knew of this the next day.