The date of closure of the Empress is definitely wrong I was born and brought up just round the corner from this cinema in 1944 and spent most of my spare time in there and I know that I had left school 1959 and was going out with a particular girl and this was in 1960 as we use to get in early for one of the double back row seats,. Also I saw the film “A Summer Place” there 7 times, and this was not released till 1959.
The date of closure of the Empress is definitely wrong I was born and brought up just round the corner from this cinema in 1944 and spent most of my spare time in there and I know that I had left school 1959 and was going out with a particular girl and this was in 1960 as we use to get in early for one of the double back row seats,. Also I saw the film “A Summer Place” there 7 times, and this was not released till 1959.