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|short description=The '''Rothwell Empire Cinema''' was a cinema that opened on 8th May 1913. The cinema closed between 1933 and 1935.
|long description=By October 1935, the cinema had been converted into the Empire Ballroom and was given a new modern façade. It was replaced by Blackburn Hall in 1959, which is now a community theatre and centre with a flat floored auditorium and new stage constructed behind the former screen proscenium.
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|caption=Blackburn Hall, which stands on the site of the Rothwell Empire Cinema.
|attribution=[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/507634 Photo] © [https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/11162 Betty Longbottom] ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ cc-by-sa/2.0])
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