IT is a shame that the 1930s Art Deco Odeon building is to be replaced with an hotel.
The building may be in a state of disrepair now but that was not the case a few years ago when it was a thriving bingo hall.
Then, had the council acted quickly, when the bingo hall closed it could have been mothballed and saved for the town.
After all this building has a special place in local history for the generations of Bolton people who went to the "pictures" there.
And it has a separate history as one of the major Northern venues for Britain's burgeoning rock scene in the sixties. Artists such as Mott the Hoople, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Roy Orbison and even the Bee Gees, played to packed houses.
Sadly, all that history will be lost when the building is pulled down and replaced by an hotel.
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