She tells me it continued to run through the rest of the ‘50s and was popular as a lunch time venue. Ida Bradshaw remembers her father receiving tickets and getting off work early to attend. My old friend Alan Brown was there and the icing on the cake was that he got into see Errol Flynn in Captain Blood which was one of his better swashbuckling movies.ĭuring the war it was damaged in the same raid that destroyed houses on Claude Road and did reopen till 1954 when as part of the advertising campaign the manager offered complimentary tickets for the restaurant. It was opened in 1937 and our own brass band played at the opening ceremony. Now if you grew up in Chorlton anytime before the mid 1980s you will have fond memories of the Rivoli before it became the Essoldo, the Classic and finally the Shalimar.
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