Belle Vue's Showcase Cinema was the place to be in the 90s. Before the building was demolished to make way for a new high school, locals from south and east Manchester flocked to its 14-screens for the latest movie, leaving many with happy memories.
But pictures taken inside the building, after it was left abandoned during the coronavirus pandemic, paint a gloomier picture. An urban explorer shared eerie images of its empty rooms and corridors on social media.
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