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One of Stockport's most beloved heritage buildings is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its re-opening.

The Plaza Cinema on Mersey Square in Stockport , which dates back to 1932, is now a Grade II*-listed building famed for its lush interiors and iconic art-deco frontage - and for being one of the few Super Cinemas in the country still in use for its original purpose.

But after a more than thirty-year tenure as a bingo hall, the Plaza could have gone the way of so many other heritage theatres - and there was a time when its future was in doubt.

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As cinema audiences declined into the 1960s, the Plaza reopened as a bingo hall in 1967, which it remained until closing in

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