Designed by the architectural company of Cambell and Horsley, the Lyceum Theatre on Church Street, Eccles, opened in 1899. With the showing of bioscope presentations within the theatre's first year, people questioned its intensions in becoming home to legitimate theatre. In 1907, the Lyceum became the Crown Theatre, and in 1932, the Crown Cinema. Running for a good length of time, the cinema, like so many others in the country, was converted into a bingo hall in 1963. Closed since the 80s and having suffered two fires, the Lyceum is now a grade II building/apartment conversion, keeping the majority of the original architecture and features intact.
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