Forum Super Cinema and Cafe. Wythenshawe Estate

Reference           Manchester City News Saturday 19 May 1934, Page 8

NEW CINEMA, WYTHENSHAWE. September has been fixed as the positive opening date for the Forum super-cinema, which is going up in Sale Road, and the builders are already busy with the external brickwork. The cinema will hold 2,000 people and will have a café holding 200. Its equipment is to be of the most approved modern type including a giant Wurlitzer organ Holoaphane coloured lighting and the Western Electric wide screen. [Manchester City News Saturday 19 May 1934, Page 8]

PROPOSED SUPER CINEMA AND CAFÉ WYTHENSHAWE ESTATE - WILL FIRMS desirous of TENDERING for GENERAL BUILDING WORK, STEEL CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION, HEATING, VENTILATING please write to CHAS HARTLEY FMSA LRIBA 128 Buxton Road Stockport, Cheshire. [Manchester Guardian Tuesday 26 September 1933 Page 1 Column 7]

Closed 1974. Converted into Kingdom Hall for the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Reference    Builder 4 August 1933 Page 206 - plans passed
Reference    Manchester City News Saturday 19 May 1934, Page 8
Reference    Manchester Guardian Tuesday 26 September 1933 Page 1 Column 7