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Blackhills Road Showing Empress Cinema - Horden (hord0047)

Aged Miners Homes Ellisons Bank
Behind The Workmens Club

Postcard photograph entitled Blackhills Road, Horden. 5470, showing the right-hand side of a road running downhill towards the camera; the facades of shops can be seen, including that of F. Cowley, Fancy Dealer, and that of Gales's Bazaar; at the top of the hill a large building identified as The Empress Cinema can be seen; a girl standing in the road and a woman in the doorway of F. Cowley's shop can be seen, as can also a motor car, registration number BL5489, parked outside F. Cowley

Blackhills Road Showing Empress Cinema - Horden

Postcard photograph entitled Blackhills Road, Horden. 5470, showing the right-hand side of a road running downhill towards the camera; the facades of shops can be seen, including that of F. Cowley, Fancy Dealer, and that of Gales's Bazaar; at the top of the hill a large building identified as The Empress Cinema can be seen; a girl standing in the road and a woman in the doorway of F. Cowley's shop can be seen, as can also a motor car, registration number BL5489, parked outside F. Cowley

Date: 1920 - 1929


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