Longton Cinemas

A Memory of Longton.

I remember Longton with great affection. I was manager of both the Focus Cinema in Market Street and the Royal on Anchor Road. When my boss came down on a weekly visit he would treat me to lunch at the Dorothy Cafe by the railway station. I always had steak and kidney pie which was delicious! The Royal became a bingo hall and I closed the Focus which was demolished for an office block. When they pulled down the old Focus it was such a small gap you would never have dreamt that a cinema stood there.

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