It's a relic of cinema's golden age.
For more than 80 years the old Adelphi picture house has stood in the centre of Moston.
But now it could be demolished to make way for flats.
Developers have applied for planning permission to build a four storey apartment block on the site on Kenyon Lane.
It would would include 30 two bedroom flats and three one bedroom flats.
If the plans are approved the Adelphi would go the same way as hundreds of old picture house across the UK.
Once one of three cinemas in Moston, the grand Art Deco-style Adelphi opened in 1937 and could seat 1,300 people.
It replaced an earlier tin hut cinema, built nearby 30 years earlier, and was owned by the WD Woodhouse chain which ran 58 cinemas in around Manchester and Leicester.
Of those just 17 remain standing and none still operate as a cinema.
The Adelphi had a short lifespan, showing its last film 1967.
The building was later converted into a bingo halll.
It's currently home to Deanway DIY store, but some of the cinema's original features still exist, including mosiac tiling on what was the entrance hall floor and part of the auditorium and stage
Documents included with the planning application say seven of the 33 flats will be classed as 'affordable'.
Discussions on the number of those seven flats to be set aside for social housing and affordable rent will take place with Manchester council.
The documents add: "The dwellings will appeal to young professionals and older downsizers.
"As well as providing these occupiers with a high-quality dwelling choice, it will free up family homes for those who will occupy them fully, encouraging young people out of shared accommodation and ‘empty nesters’ from family homes which their adult children have left.
"This will have economic benefits in retaining and attracting local residents."
Parking spaces and a residents' garden will be built behind the apartment block.
Developers say the proposal will: "Maximise the use of a brownfield site that is not currently achieving its full potential; Provide new high quality living accommodation within close proximity of a number of transport links connecting the site to Manchester City Centre, other areas of Greater Manchester further afield and act as a catalyst for regeneration and future developments."
