A Walk around West Street, Swadlincote, with Graham Nutt and Clyde Dissington
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Local man Edwin Lawrence, who was proficient in making cinema films and showing them at fairgrounds, was stopped from building a cinema on this site buy locals who opposed a building of the devil being opposite the house of God. Eventually a single story cinema did open, to packed houses, in 1912. With the advent of talking pictures, the film industry boomed, the building was eventually demolished and replaced with The New Empire.
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Looking towards what was the General Post Office, next to the Wesleyan Chapel.
During World War II telegram boys had to wait at the side of the building to receive telegrams through a small window. They would carve their names into the bricks to pass the time, as seen here in this inscription from 1944.
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Fond memories of Lush’s Fish and Chip Shop.
Reminiscing about the good ol’ days, rounding a night at the pictures in the 1960s with fish and chips from Lush’s. |
Swadlincote Town Hall and Market Place
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The Bear Inn
A popular haunt with many of the well known entertainment acts which came to perform in Swadlincote in the 1950s / 60s.
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The Town Hall, built 1861, was also the market hall, on the Delph. The clock was installed later in 1863. Why “Time the Avenger”? The clock’s funder, Sir Henry Defoe, believed Time would show that he was wrongly accused in a law suit. |
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