LAUREL and HARDY in BOLTON

LIDO CINEMA/THEATRE
Bradshawgate
(Demolished April 2006 to make way for an apartment block)

BROOKLANDS HOTEL
Corner of Hope Road and Marsden Road,
SALE, CHESHIRE
(demolished in 1972)
Laurel & Hardy came to Bolton on just the one occasion - w/c 8 September 1947 - at the Lido Cinema/Theatre. It is said that that the
doors of the Lido had been closed since the beginning of WWII, and that it re-opened specially to cater for Laurel & Hardy's appearance
there. Stan and Ollie could have stayed in a Bolton hotel, or even at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, which they seemed to like, but,
for some reason unknown to me, stayed at the Brooklands Hotel in Sale, Cheshire.

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