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Blackpool Gazette
  • 24/09/2024
Remembering Blackpool's lost cinemas through the decades...
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00:00There has never been a shortage of cinemas in Blackpool. At the height of their popularity,
00:06it was estimated there were around 20 different picture houses across the Fylde Coast.
00:12One of Blackpool's most well known was the ABC in Church Street. A former theatre, the
00:17cinema opened in the early 1980s as the three screen Cannon Cinema, later the MGM and finally
00:23the ABC Cinema which closed in 1998. And of course the Odeon in Dixon Road was one of
00:29the resort's premier choices. These nostalgic pictures look back at Blackpool's cinemas
00:34through the decades, including those in Fleetwood and St Anne's.

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