Astoria Cinema Café Billiards Hall, eleven Shops. Buxton Road Great Moor Stockport

NEW STOCKPORT CINEMA - Preliminary work in connection with the Astoria Cinema which is to be erected in Buxton Road, Great Moor, Stockport, is well in hand. The scheme provides tor a hall to seat 1,400, billiard hall with eleven tables, fourteen shops. Twelve-fourteen houses and about thirty lock-up garages. On the ground floor of the cinema there will be accommodation for 1,133 and in the balcony 267. Waiting rooms will also be provided. Designed on the modern lines, the Astoria will be the finest cinema in the town. The architect is C. Hartley, Buxton Road, Stockport.  [The Bioscope Wednesday 23 January 1929 page 40 with illustration]

Alfred (sic) Hartley 128 Buxton Road Heavily Stockport, is the architect for the erection of a new cinema in Buxton Road, Great Moor, Stockport. The scheme comprises kinema, billiards hall and eleven shops. [Kine Weekly  11 September 1930 page 57]

Reference    The Bioscope Wednesday 23 January 1929 page 40 with illustration
Reference    Builder 11 January 1929 page 134 - plans passed
Reference    See also Builder 9 and 30 November 1928

Reference    Builder 5 September 1930. Page 401
Reference    Kine Weekly 11 September 1930 page 57