Lost Greater Manchester cinema where 'kids queued up every Saturday' before it was reduced to rubble
Nothing will ever match the feeling of visiting a classic picture house. The marquee, the smell of the popcorn, the comfy seats.
Its interior was completely changed, with a wall being built to split it in two and the walls rounded off to make it an oval shape. The new layout, which was said to have been better than the original, created the ‘Mayfair Minor’ and ‘Mayfair Major’. The MEN recently wrote an article about Manchester’s classic cinemas, with one reader sharing their memories of Whitefield’s Mayfair in the comments section. They wrote: “Kids queued up every Saturday morning for the matinee to watch all of those bad films - Batman, Flash Gordon, Roy Rogers, and all the other rubbish!
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