The 18th and 19th century site of the Roast Beef Inn, replaced in 1926 by the premises of the “Preston Humane Assurance Collecting Society”. The building features pleasant although deteriorating cream tiling on the first floor of its facade. In 2025, it is the premises of Mr. Booze Express and the Rotana Restaurant & Cafe.
This shopping centre has gone by multiple names: all of them bad.
After a short period supporting the dramatic arts, the venue was reinvented as a kind of soft porn cinema, and began showing European arthouse movies with “a level of nudity that British and American cinema wasn’t ready for”.
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Not a straight-up soft porn cinema, god forbid, just a kind of one.
Check out the tiling at the bottom of the first picture, as well as the funky geometric pattern on the wall in the second picture.