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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jess Molyneux

Edge Lane's lost cinema where couple fell in love and mum went into labour

A former Cineworld venue which brought the latest films to Liverpool for over two decades saw film-lovers "sad to see it go."

Located in Edge Lane Retail Park, many will remember the former Cineworld venue first opened as an eight-screen MGM in 1991, as a project of Cineplex Odeon. By 1995, it had been renamed Virgin and later UGC in 1999.

Many memories were made at the cinema throughout its different lives. One being on July 15, 1999, when queues formed as early as 8am outside the Virgin multiscreen and bosses cancelled films at four of their screens to accommodate The Phantom Menace.

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