Ask many Ashtonians how many cinemas there are in Ashton-on-Ribble and they will most probably say that there’s only one. They’d be wrong.
Ashton’s most popular and well-known cinema is on Preston docks. The Odeon, as it is now called, has been located on Preston’s docks for around two decades and was one of the catalysts that has helped make the docks’ redevelopment such a success.
Ashton has a second, newer and less well-known cinema, however.
The Mitchell and Kenyon cinema, which is Preston’s only independent cinema, is located in the Foster Building of Preston’s university. The cinema first opened its doors in Spring 2006, showing a wide range of films that you won’t normally see at on a big screen.
Whilst the Odeon is the place to go for the latest films, therefore, keep checking what’s on at the university’s cinema if you want to catch one of your favourite old films, or one of those newer releases which, despite rave reviews, didn’t make it into the multiplexes.
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