The Palace, which opened on Boxing Day 1932, was another of Hanley’s enormous ‘pleasuredromes’ which Bill Cawley remembers going to:

We used to go to the Palace in Hanley ... that was a huge cinema, huge. I think it would hold about 2000 people, but it was huge, and it was a wooden structure and it used to be a skating rink and before that they had boxing matches and all things but it was converted in a cinema early in the thirties. I saw King Kong there ...