Stick it in yer diary: October 3rd 2006 – the night Salford stormed The Lowry in a blitz of spotlights, limos and red carpets. A thousand people attended the biggest film premiere the city has ever seen. A community film premiere. And the cost of the theatre hire ? Nothing.
Now every community group in Salford should get in there and use the place for nowt. A precedent has been set… This was the night The Lowry’s drawbridge came down….