5 January 1956 On this day, Kinematograph Weekly reported that: ‘The Essoido Circuit has acquired the New Majestic, Blackburn, having purchased all the shares of Majestic (Blackburn), Ltd. The theatre longed to to the Buxton Theatre Circuit. Ltd., Manchester, of which Mr. Harry Buxton is managing director. It has seating for 1,500 persons. The name…
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 who…
Crowds queued in the rain for two hours to the long awaited grand reopening of the Majestic Cinema on Monday 2 November 1953 at 7pm for the premiereshowing of the horror film The House of Wax, starring Vincent Price. This was also the first showing of a movie from a major motion-picture studio to be…
On 26 February 1953 it was reported that a peeping tom had been fined £10 after being found up a drainpipe trying to see into the toilets: Charles Francis George Davis of Mount Pleasant Blackburn was said to have been seen holding onto a drainpipe in a passage at the rear of the Majestic Cinema.…
Samuel Wilson, Troop Street, Blackburn found dead at the cinema – he was employed there as a fire watcher – Manchester Evening News reports him as 17. See link for details of the duties of fire watchers during the second World War. https://www.ww2civildefence.co.uk/fire-guard-history.html
This is how death of the manager of the Majestic Cinema at The Exchange, Blackburn made the headlines in theatre circles in 1935. There will be general regret in Lancashire kinema circles on the news of the death, at the age of 51, of Major Reginald Yorke, an old Blackburn resident who had retired…
The Exchange Assembly Rooms on Town Hall Street was the venue for a grand social and dance by the Blackburn and District Retail Confectioners Association in November 1933. In 1929 a photo of the committee appeared in the local paper, having won commendation from the national Retail Confectioners Association. According to the accompanying article, ‘Within…
Over 500 fond Blackburn mothers have offspring who resemble Baby Leroy, the child film star who appears with Maurice Chevalier at the Majestic Cinema this week in ” A Bedtime Story”. This fact, came to light as a result of a competition organised by Mr. H. Stevens, the manager of the cinema, for a silver…
The sale by auction of the Majestic Cinema. Blackburn. by Richard Hoyle and Son. of Manchester, which took place in Thatched House, Newmarket valuation which amounted to 17s. 9d. The purchaser was George Rose, who owns a number of kinemas in the Manchester district. It is the intention of Mr. Rose, we understand, to renovate…
“OUR GLORIOUS DEAD.” ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY ARRANGEMENTS AT BLACKBURN. (Blackburn Times) Tomorrow is Armistice Sunday, and, in addition to special services at various places of worship, the annual service arranged by the British Legion will be held in King George’s Hall in the afternoon. The Mayor will preside and addresses will be given by the Rev.…
£20,000 is an amazing amount of money to win on the football pools by today’s standards, but when Tom Hartley of 121 Higher Audley Street, Blackburn received his winner’s cheque on the stage at The Majestic Cinema in September 1928 it was a record breaking achievement that made the pages of the Sunday Mirror. For…
In July 1920, the Blackburn Times reported the case of a local man who was fined for writing indecent words on the lavatory walls of the Exchange Picture Hall. INDECENT WRITING ON THE WALL. Reginald Shorrock of 165 Shear Brow, who did not appear in answer to the summons, was proceeded against by Mr. Alan…