This imposing building was one of Burnley’s most popular places of entertainment in the pre and postwar years. Situated on the corner of Manchester Road and Red Lion Street, the Savoy Cinema had ...

THIS corner of Burnley, outside the Savoy Cinema, was certainly bustling with life when the Telegraph photographer captured it on film in the summer of 1953. Many of the shoppers and pedestrians ...

Roger then looks around the corner to the area around Red Lion Street, once the location of the Savoy Cinema, which opened in 1922. It was here that the first sound movie was heard in Burnley ...