The plans for the other side of the canal look good aswell. A mixture of ligh industry, housing and leisure facilities.

It's not a Costa, it's a local company called Silcock's (I think).

Barbarella's to close and re-open as a Nando's - you read it here first

What next? A railway station?

A Costa coffee shop opened in the Spinning Gate on Thursday, next door to Clarkes Shoes.

Im showing my age now but i can remember about 7or 8 cinemas in Leigh , i used to love the Sems , Regal ,and Odeon.M y food fave is TGIs , though .

Fair enough, didn't know that one.

More into beer than coffee eh Matt.

It would be very funny if Leigh got a Pizza Express and Wigan didn't have one. They would have to change the way they serve them in Pie land. Who wants to eat an American Hot in a foil tray with a crust on? Errrr. On the Pie land Pizza Express menu it would have Meat and Prater pizza in foil tray and a crust. Just to comfuse them I would put at the side, "must be eaten with knife and fork". Headlines in Wigan Observer would be, " Pizza Express closes two weeks after opening due to stabbings in restaurant. A spokesman for the chain said it was like feeding animals. Following weeks of negotations Pizza Express have decided to re-open the restaurant but all Wigan customers must wear a rear fastening jacket with arm restraints and be hand fed. Road blocks are to be set up at Platt Waz, Hindley and Golbourne to stop Pie Eaters coming to Cosmopolitan Leigh and lowering the tone of our smarter, cleaner and more educationaly populated town.

things i do for you leyther geezer

you've opened my eyes I can see now

a LOOM with a view , it all looks very good ,im all for expansion , about time to, nice to see the Cinema back in Leigh , many years ago i worked at the Odeon , in Leigh ,as Projectionist , it would be nice to see Paint your Wagon again or SAW , i prefer the deep thinking films as you can see, nothing like the Tears of a Clown.

I used to love going into the projection room of the cinemas. Fantastic pieces of equipment.

Tony , im talking about the old Style Projection cameras , where you heard the bell started up the second projection camera , and changed over after seeing the rings in the right hand corner of the film, happy days , i loved it at the Odeon,they even rewound the films by hand.

The Watcher thinks it is very very sad that the occupants of a once proud town like Leigh are getting worked up into a frenzy of excitement because a few fast food outlets are opening up soon. By God how low have we fallen in our standards, you are acting like a starving dog that has been thrown a few scraps of grizzle.
The cinema is a welcome but long overdue asset to the towns leisure facilities but more burger & pizza places are not exactly going to be serving quality fayre are they ?