WEEK 42

Cafe Sport, Swinton

This cinema, built in 1929, could seat 1100 people and was opened in 1929 with ‘Battle of the Sexes’ after being built by Wade & Sons of Wath. In 1961, bingo began to played here on up to three days per week. It finally closed as a cinema in the 1970s but reopened as a skate boarding venue, then became Swinton Squash Club before finally being converted into a health gym with a bar, called, Cafe Sport.