The "Moon Under Water", Wetherspoon's pub on Deansgate, was once the Deansgate Picture House which opened in January of 1914.  The cinema was completely redesigned by G. Allen Fortesque and reopened November 17, 1930. 


It was taken over by ABC in 1959 and was extensively modernized in 1960 providing seating for 700, a wide screen and the auditorium was decorated with twinkling star shaped lights.  In 1971, a second cinema opened, the 167 seat ABC 2, formed out of the former cafe. Again a plain but comfortable cinema.  When ABC was bought out by Cannon in 1990, both screens closed.   The link below will take you to an image of this cinema when it was operating.


After closure the Deansgate Cinema remained boarded up until Wetherspoons converted it into a pub that retained many features of the former cinema.