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MYSTERY OVER FUTURE OF ICONIC GRADE II LISTED SALFORD CINEMA
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Star date: 26th March 2021 CHURCH GIVEN MARCHING ORDERS AT SALFORD CINEMA The future of the iconic Grade II listed Salford Cinema, which for years has been used by the New Harvest Church, is in doubt as owners Richard and Nancy Salazar have told the church to leave the premises. "We were shocked and disappointed to be told to leave" says a spokesperson for the Church "We're working to find another location. And we genuinely don't know what he intends to do with the building." Full details here...
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The future of the distinctive Salford Cinema building on the corner of Chapel Street and Trinity Way, which for years has been used by the New Harvest Church, is in doubt as the Salford Star understands that the building may have been sold. The New Harvest Church, now re-branded as Aspire Church, has been told to vacate the building, with no explanation, by owners Pastor Richard Salazar and Nancy Salazar, who run the New Harvest Christian Fellowship in California... "The congregation has been there over thirty years so we were shocked and disappointed to be told to leave" says a spokesperson for the Church "We're working to find another location. And we genuinely don't know what he intends to do with the building." The Salford Star contacted the Salazars' legal representatives in Manchester but they were loathe to comment on "confidential client matters...at this stage" The Salford Cinema dates from 1846 when it was a Scottish Presbyterian Church, complete with a spire and stained glass windows. It opened as a cinema in 1912 with a new front, and became the Rex Cinema in 1938 and operated until 1958. It reopened as a bingo hall in 1967, when Violet Carson, Coronation Street's Ena Sharples, cut the ribbon, but closed again in 1985, before the New Harvest Church took over. The building was Grade II listed in 1980 as "a significant example of early cinema architecture". Now, only the owners know the new fate of one of Salford most iconic structures...
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Marty Bermudez wrote
at 20:57:00 on 28 March 2021 |
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| Knowing Richard and Nancy Salazar personally ...... the building will be sold and they will keep the 40 plus years of the people’s investment or giving to the new harvest business and put it in there retirement along with everything else they have taken from churches for so many years. Just another power trip to push people around and control the situation...... like his been allowed to do for so many years by the church leadership that he has surrounded him self with who have looked at him like a spiritual guru......... |
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at 17:02:45 on 28 March 2021 |
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| I agree with Paul it's got to be saved its a landmark for most Salford people.
It's not just private greed when all said and done the council ruined the trinity estate and sold it off to developers same with Stephen street estate and it was the same Labour council who now sit in swinton not bexley square ? Sold for flats for a pittance. |
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Old Cigarette wrote
at 11:59:35 on 28 March 2021 |
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| I used to go to a program at New Harvest called Celebrate Recovery. This was about thirteen years ago. I got to know quite a few people there, Andy and Eileen, Window Cleaner Joe, Janet and Sue Clay, Dele and Lisa, little Richard, Mike Aldaco, Simon and others. What I got from going to Celebrate Recovery for a couple of years is that the people attending the church were good people, but that the Head Church in California was very dictatorial. Examples being that long term pastors at Salford New Harvest would be instantly dismissed. With no comebacks. Equally, everyone tithes ten percent of their salary, but the building was in a state of delapidation, and the church didn't do anything in the community. From what I understand the Salford Church was sending the money across the Atlantic to the Mother Church in California. Where it was completely unnacountable. I was told by someone who had been there since the 1980s, that years ago it was common for the members to go to markets and shops just before they closed, so that they could get reduced price food, as they were giving all of their money to the church, and that one of the members, Bill, a graphic designer of national renown, left the church back then because the people at the top wanted him to donate his house.
About ten years ago I got to know some homeless Eastern Europeans, and I would sometimes walk with them to The Cornerstone on Denmark Rd in Hulme, it's a place that helps the homeless. On several occasions as we walked down Chapel Street, these homeless Lats and Poles would point out New Harvest, grin and say "Eta Secta!" Which is Russian for It's a sect or cult. Little did I know at the time, but they were right.
It wouldn't surprise me if the building was purchased on a thirty year mortgage, paid for by the tithes of the Salford members, who have now been evicted. Of the Christian names of members that I mentioned at the top, only two still attend. The others, some have gone to other churches, and some have simply stopped believing and are very bitter at their wasted twenty plus years. |
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Medicated Millennials wrote
at 21:58:53 on 27 March 2021 |
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| The reason the church got kicked out of the building is because they no longer wanted to be associated with New Harvest Christian Fellowship under Richard and Nancy and changed their name to Aspire. Richard and Nancy have been exposed in the United States as frauds that have been stealing from the church and using it as a cash cow for decades all under the name of God while families were being mistreated and spiritually bullied along with a lot of sexual misconduct cover ups involving minors. Some of which were committed by their own children and family members. You can find the whole story on YouTube under “The Gospel of Marty & Thal” or on Instagram under “MedicatedMillennials.” |
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at 11:52:41 on 27 March 2021 |
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| its got nothing to do with labour knobhead its got everything to do with private greed and speculation . |
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Debra Green wrote
at 09:09:23 on 27 March 2021 |
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| Another historical Salford landmark will be lost to developers greed. Another badly designed apartment block will rise - full of flats left empty as no local person can afford them.
Unless Salford ppl campaign long and hard - the council will grant planning permission - as they did for the Salford town hall up the road.
I despair |
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paul kelly wrote
at 00:02:17 on 27 March 2021 |
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| Such an iconic Salford building it must be preserved and protected at all costs any developer who even contemplates letting this unique piece of Salfords architectural history wither and rot should be told by the council and the people of Salford where to go we wont accept our history being wrecked or ruined like the many fine historical buildings butchered over the last decades.the Gable end of the building is the original wall of the church the building behind was where st stephen school and church once stood i used to go to a youth club in the school and below the school was a crypt grave stones surrounded the walls it was open air with steps leading down from the street a good 20 foot drop when the school was demolished the crypt was filled with rubble and covered up it is still below the ground some stones can be seen in the park next to it which were part of the church grave yard.My grandparents lived on st stephen st and john street and the picture house was where they would go to see films in the 1920s when they were young they both told me it was where they watched the first talkie films in the 20s they told me the crowds were huge with people desperate to get in to see the talking films they are both passed on now but in old age they still spoke about the Salford picture house and the talkies a lot of people will be watching with interest what happens to the building. |
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Janet Clay wrote
at 22:48:49 on 26 March 2021 |
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| This has been my church since 1990, I thank God we have had a place to worship when so many in other countries struggle. I have witnessed miracles, healings and lives changed including my own. I’ve been privileged to serve more cups of tea to friends and strangers than I could ever count.
I walked out of there for the last time tonight ( 26/03/21) following our final prayer meeting. The Manchester congregation over the years has so many memories, but we are excited that even though we had no choice, we are moving on, and I believe to better things. like birds kicked out of the nest we will soar. But as many are saying, it will be sad to pass by this nostalgic spot on the corner of trinity way, if this little gem is missing or derelict. |
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Old Cigarette wrote
at 19:33:47 on 26 March 2021 |
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| The ironic thing about this, is that it will be the congregation's weekly tithing that will have paid for the building many many years ago, and they'll have been tithing ever since, and none of those tithes will have been spent on keeping the building in reasonable condition, or even on Christian Outreach ... But now the American Christian owners, who the tithes have been getting kicked back to for decades, will sell the building for a couple of million quid. Yet another reason why organised religion is a right load of old bollocks. |
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wrote
at 15:36:09 on 26 March 2021 |
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| Stand up for your self vote out liebour on the 6TH of may |
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Ann Jones wrote
at 13:47:12 on 26 March 2021 |
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| This place is part of the Salford History.I remember going there in the 40s,I would be criminal to let it deteriorate and be pulled down.
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joe the builder wrote
at 10:51:38 on 26 March 2021 |
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| You can bet soon to be block of apartments |
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bob wrote
at 10:41:06 on 26 March 2021 |
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| For those that get up early on a Sunday morning,you will see lots of people attending that church. Friends live near there, and they told me of how, one very cold winter, there was a guy who lived in the tiny park next to the church. The good Samaritans from that church did all they could to help this guy. They even found him somewhere to live, but he wouldn't move from the park. one day though,he was just gone.What's going to happen to this building? Well, here's my prediction, It will be boarded up vandalized, then knocked down in about 8-10 years. We will get the save our heritage crap and all that, but mark my words its going. |
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