Moston. But now it could be demolished to make way for flats.Developers have applied for planning permission to build a four storey apartment block on the site on Kenyon Lane.It would would include 30 two bedroom flats and three one bedroom flats.If the plans are approved the Adelphi would go the same way as hundreds of old picture house across the UK.
Once one of three cinemas in Moston, the grand Art Deco-style Adelphi opened in 1937 and could seat 1,300 people. It replaced an earlier tin hut cinema, built nearby 30 years earlier, and was owned by the WD Woodhouse chain which ran 58 cinemas in around Manchester and Leicester.Of those just 17 remain standing and none still operate as a cinema.The Adelphi had a short lifespan, showing its.
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