Changing Faces of Middleton | Drone Flight | 1st December 2020

Standing roughly where Middleton Arena is today, the Hippodrome began life as the Empire Cinema. It launched as a nightclub in May 1988, with the late Coronation Street legend Liz Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth, and Foo Foo Lamarr they were the star guests on the opening night. It also featured in Raining Stones in 1993 a film directed by Ken Loach starring Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Hickey and Gemma Phoenix and John Middleton who had a fight scene with Bob played by Bruce Jones tumbling down the stairs in the club.
In this video you'll see the demolition of the Hippodrome Nightclub which is now the site of Middleton Arena and the demolition of the Civic Centre baths now Tesco Extra Superstore, also in this video is Middleton Shopping Centre.
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