Colour photograph showing the façade of Chorley Little Theatre, formerly the Empire, in Chorley. Taken from across the road, it shows a plain façade standing at the end of Dole Lane with CHORLEY LITTLE THEATRE on a sign below a shallow canopy and again on a larger sign above the canopy. A poster on a canted wall to the left advertises a production of ‘Love Match’ by Glenn Melvin. In the background to the left can be seen the main façade in stone, heavily pseudo-Georgian in style, with EMPIRE appearing on the face of a wide gable. This façade forms the entrance to the backstage areas suggesting that it was possibly built as an owner’s/manager’s accommodation, or a company office. It stands on the curve of Dole Lane, at an angle towards the auditorium which lies in a U-bend of the lane.