This is another large and unexpected building from my explorations last Saturday. Today it is the Piccadilly Cinema, showing the latest Bollywood blockbusters, but (says the invaluable Cinema Treasures site) it began life as the North Evington Working Men's Club and Institute, becoming a cinema in 2000.
It is hard not to think of it as another expression of the lost white working-class culture of the area that I wrote about the other day.
Somewhere nearby, and also closed now, is Spinney Hill Working Men's Club, where I drew with Nigel Short when (aged only 14, I have to confess) he gave a simultaneous display there in 1979.
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