Cine City opened in 1912 as “The Scala” and was open and showing pictures for nearly a hundred years in four screens, closing in July 2001. Cine City, the first cinema in Manchester and the third cinema to open in England.

It was threatened with demolishion in 2005 but was saved after objections from heritage groups however now in 2008 scaffolding has been put up and work begun on the inside to prepare it for demolishion. The building will make way for a new apartment building with ground floor shop.

Visited twice: January 31st and February 6th 2008

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Wikipedia

Manchester Evening New Article 1, 2

Ordsall Lane is a closed railway station in Manchester, UK. Opening in 1849 the station operated for over a hundred years. At first the station was a simple platform but it soon turned into a large station with 5 platforms.

After it’s closed in 1957 the buildings had been demolished by the time of 1966 however the platform remained.

In 1988 a new section of track called the “Windsor Link” was opened. This allowed trains from Preston to proceed straight to Manchester Piccadilly rather than Manchester Victoria. This link joined the original Liverpool and Manchester railroad at the site of the Ordsall Lane station, considerably altering the site.

Woodslands Hospital, Bolton was not so much an asylum but more of a NHS centre which homed and provided care and support for the mentally ill and their families.

This building is well within the NHS budget to repair and reopen. There are one or two holes in the roof as a result of vandalism and some lovely stained glass at this site.

Kirkhams Bridge, Whitefield, spans the A556, M60 and M62. It carries the local metro link services. However the underground is what I was interested so down I went. The use of the underground is not known to me however recently it has certainly been used as living areas by the homeless and drinking teens. Needles also litter the entrance to the site so the possibility of it being used previously as a heroin den is very real.

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