Mayfair Cinema
Bury Old Road and Conway Avenue,
Whitefield,
M45 7AY
Bury Old Road and Conway Avenue,
Whitefield,
M45 7AY
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The cinema did not open in 1947, I have recently learned, but on the 5th June 1956 according to a newspaper report, supported by the 1954 Kinematograph Yearbook which lists as open, the Mayfair Junior (former Palace Cinema) which had been reopened following the original Mayfair’s destruction by fire in 1941. Rebuilding under wartime restrictions would probably not have been achievable by 1947. It closed (according to the same report) on 29th September 1994, having been twinned seemingly between 1974 and 1976.
A series of photos (interior and exterior) taken in 1988 here, whilst it was still operating as a cinema:–
Exterior
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Interior
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Mayfair Major
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Mayfair Minor
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Two vintage photos of the Mayfair – when it was single screen cinema – here:–
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Photo of the demolition here :
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This show the balcony remains being ripped out – note the lack of seating under the balcony area.
The Mayfair Has been demolished and work has commenced on building yet more FLATS!!!!
A note to our American cousins – local government in the UK is funded largely though a local taxation called Council Tax which is levied on the basis of the value of domestic properties. Hence the almost obscene haste in which council’s grant planing permission for domestic property, particularly flats. Also new built properties are worth more in revenue.