CROSBY MEMORIES
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This picture is taken from the entrance of Crosby Library looking towards the Plaza Community cinema. The Plaza was recently reopened as a community cinema after the previous owners, Apollo Leisure, closed it claiming that a cinema in Crosby was not viable. Following a major public campaign funds were raised to open the cinema under its present name. There has been a cinema on this site for many years, and previous names include The Apollo, The Cannon and The Classic.

Next to the Plaza on Crosby Road North is the Ferndale Lodge pub which was known as the Kiss Club from the early 1980's to the mid 90's. The Kiss Club originally opened as Crosby Snooker Club, but the space available to snooker and pool was eaten away by the bar/dance area until it became just a pub. Next to the Ferndale Lodge is K & C Douglas newsagents who operate 3 shops in Crosby and have been open for 20 years. Also on this block is the Bronte fish and chip shop which was on South Road until a couple of years ago.

This unattractive building on the corner of Hawthorne Road is Secrets nightclub, formerly known as Allinsons Dance Hall until the 1960's. The photo is taken from the car park of the White House pub which has undergone many name changes over the years including Gillespies and Tut n Shive before reverting to the original White House name.

This is the Crosby Youth Centre on Coronation Road. The uninviting exterior of the building goes some way to explain why the perception in the town is that not enough is done for the youth.