Star Cinema

Since closure as a cinema the building has served as, among other things, an auction house and a car repair workshop and now as ‘Triffic Togs’ (aka ‘The Cabin’) is something of a Middlewich institution. Don’t let the name fool you – the shop sells practically anything you care to mention. Facilities at the Electric Theatre/The Star were remembered by locals as rather primitive, with patrons seated on wooden benches, and the projector on a wooden platform behind them. There was no separate projection room. The Alhambra, just down the street, was built in 1920, so this cinema would have been very short- lived. Dave Roberts, editor, ‘The Middlewich Diary’