This website was set up around 12 years ago to keep the long forgotten Longford Essoldo Cinema in the public eye. I work in arts management and it bugs me seeing buildings of significance like this go to waste. The website has served as an archive for images, history, memories and to document news items as they’ve happened.
Whilst I’ve had emails weekly asking about the building or mistaking me for an agent of the owner somehow, often I’ve just been posting maybe once or twice a year, usually to keep the site from not looking abandoned but essentially to say ‘no news’. Now I can’t keep up! This article from the Manchester Evening News sums up some of the latest information.
Hello,
Can you tell me what happened to the frontage that appeared in the Essoldo days?
It appeared to have a small forecourt.
Thankyou
It got squished basically into road! The road was originally 2 lanes but got widened to what you see today plus the underpasses. This was all part of the story of the decline of the building as the road widening annexed that half of Stretford.