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1920s. In 1929, it was purchased by the owners of the Vale Cinema, which renamed it as the Glen Cinema, and, from 1939, refocused it on repeat films, while the main Vale Cinema on the south side of the
Huddersfield Road showed original films. The Glen Cinema closed in 1955, and, after the building had been sold, the Mirfield Town Hall Company was wound up in 1970.
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which also maintained its headquarters in the building. In 1903, the council moved to new council offices further to the west along
Huddersfield Road. The town hall was converted into a cinema and became the People's Picture Theatre in 1910, the Town Hall Cinema in 1913, and the Regent Cinema in the
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Company", to finance and commission a new town hall for the area. The site they selected was on the north side of the Huddersfield Road in the Eastthorpe Parish. The foundation stone for
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