The entrance front of the ABC Cinema, formerly the Princess Cinema, seen from the south-west, showing the billboard promoting the current films being screened

Date:
1974 - 1975
Location:
ABC Cinema, 168-170 North Promenade, Blackpool
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Princess Cinema, 168-170 North Promenade, Blackpool
Reference:
NWC01/01/1198
Type:
Photograph (35mm Slide)
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Description

This building originally opened as the Princess Electric Theatre in 1912. It became the Princess Cinema in 1922 and was taken over by Associated British Cinemas (ABC) in 1929, operating as a cinema until its closure in 1981. It was subsequently converted into a nightclub in the 1990s.

Content

This is part of the Series: NWC01/01 Norman Walley: Series of slides; within the Collection: NWC01 Norman Walley Cinema Collection

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Walley, Norman

Keywords

Early 20th Century Cinema