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dimairt wrote:Empire Eragraph
60, Raglan Street
o. 1913 by P McKenzie in North Woodside Halls
As to the Empire Eragraph: was it in Raglan St or Woodside Halls, which are in Glenfarg St? I've never heard of it but have written to two older gentlemen who are from the area and might recall it.
nodrog wrote:The Odeon Shettleston opened as the Broadway in 1930 designed by prolific Glasgow architect James McKissack for the Singleton chain; it was sold and re-named Odeon in 1936, and closed in 1967. In the pics below it was a bingo hall, but has since been demolished...
http://www.survivingcinemas.org.uk/glas ... adway.html
gap74 wrote:It did indeed still look like that inside - it had been closed as an Asian cinema for just over a year before demolition had started, but was fairly secure and watertight.
The planning permission for the replacement flats specifically spoke of the cinema being "tired", which externally it was, although it had been painted regularly. Originally, the exterior was largely plain brick, very much an English style favoured by the original owner, Harry Kemp.
Same old same old with buildings like cinemas and churches - once they fall out of their original use, just what other use can be found for them? I wish I knew, could stop most of them being demolished!
One consolation in the case of the Capitol/Bombayis that the architect, John Fairweather, still has a few surviving cinemas in Scotland, and his designs were all pretty much the same - he was a very traditional old-school cinema designer, all classical pillars and capitals. Although his giant Green's Playhouse/Apollo in Renfield St has long gone, other Green's Playhouses of his still survive in Ayr and Wishaw, and another good survivor is the Savoy in Cambuslang. Further afield, the Edinburgh Playhouse (not a Green's) was his work too.
Gary
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