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1. That darn cat!

Middleton Guardian, Thursday 28 February 2008
LAST week we featured the Empire cinema/theatre at a time when Thomas Baker ran the business. Thomas also owned the Victory on Wood Street and advertised them as 'Middleton's premier entertainment houses'. The Victory gained the title the 'flea pit,' so I will leave the judgement to you.

2. Fall of the Middleton Empire

Middleton Guardian, Thursday 21 February 2008
READER Freda Joyce from Hollin kindly loaned Bygone Days a group photograph showing the staff of the Middleton Empire cinema which was taken at a time when she and her sister Eunice worked as usherettes during the early 1950s.
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