From Lancashire Telegraph FILM fans found themselves caught up in a horror movie when they went to Blackburn’s Apollo cinema. Staff at the town centre cinema shocked the audience by staging a mock stabbing to celebrate the opening of the film Scream 3. A fake screen was erected in front of the real one,…
It was a momentous day for Blackburn when the doors of the Cotton Exchange opened for the first time on 26th April 1865. 94 years later, the Essoldo cinema marked the anniversary and the screening of High Society with a full page history article in the Blackburn Times on 26 April 1957, along with…
CINEMA STAFF UP ON THE ROOF ESCAPE PRISON On this day in history, 17 August 1954, the Lancashire Evening Post reported on the court case of cinema staff prosecuted for stealing tiles off the roof of The Majestic Cinema at The Exchange, Blackburn. ‘Fines totalling £33 were imposed at Blackburn today on cinema projectionists…