Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby nodrog » Thu May 28, 2009 9:51 pm

Great photo Eddy - any chance we could add it to our Seamore page ?
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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby dimairt » Thu May 28, 2009 10:59 pm

Of course you can.

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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby ibtg » Fri Aug 21, 2009 9:42 am

Any news yet on Stuart Neville's websites?
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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby dimairt » Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:01 pm

February 8th 1968.

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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby nodrog » Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:40 pm

Gap74 and I's cinema database for Glasgow now has details for 174 cinemas in the city; of those we've got pictures, plans or other images for all but 21 of them. It'd be nice to complete the set - so can anyone help with any images of the following:
[Images not scanned in from books or other copyright complicated stuff preferred please!]

Email us at [email protected] or post on here.

Paragon [NB - not the Gorbals Paragon, we've got that one]
Tobago Street, Calton
1910-1920

Possilpark Picture House / Avon
277, Saracen Street
1920 - 1960

Pringle's Dennistoun Palladium
Hillfoot Street
1912 - 1937

Maryhill Picture House
1397, Maryhill Road
1914 - 1929. Site lated used for Roxy.

Scottish Film Council Studio Cinema
Woodside Place

Cinema
13 - 17 Hope Street / Argyle Street
Mitchell Library ref 1913/245 - 13-17 Hope St & Argyle St, Caledonian Railway Company, Picture House for T.M. Scotland. Architect: T.M. Scotland. NB: Unknown if ever built.

Avion
Thornliebank Road / Lochiel Road
1920s, closed by 1960. Dem for Avion pub, 1964

Whitevale Theatre
845, Gallowgate
o. 1908 by Green's in old music hall. s. 660. Cl., dem. 1929.

Star Palace
136, Main Street, Bridgeton
Old Bridgeton Town Hall; c.1908 dem. 1930

Royal
102, Main St, Bridgeton
o. 7.18 by Royal Picture House Co. in back court. s. 500. Cl., dem. 3.58.

Shawlands Picture House
1045, Pollokshaws Road
o. 1914 Cl., dem. 30.8.30.

Star / Cosmo
254, Garscube Road
o. 1912 in old meeting hall. Cl., dem. 9.33

St. James' Picture House
112, Stirling St, Townhead
o. 1910 Cl., dem. 1947.

Casino
Shawbridge St, Pollokshaws
o. 1911 by P McKenna. s. 300. Cl., dem. 1919

Canadian Picture House
319, Springburn Road
o. 1912 by Mary Byatt in old Baptist Church. Cl. 10.25. Dem. for Kinema.

Bridgeton X Electric Th.
Olympia Street
o. 1910 Leased to Green's from 1912 and renamed Picturedrome. Cl., dem. 1932.

Grove
12, Breadalbane Street
o. 1915 in old UF Ch. Cl. 18.1.32. Dance hall.

Green's Picturedrome/Round Toll/Magnet
41, Possil Road
o. 1912 in back court. Arch. Cl, dem., 5.55.

Empire Eragraph
60, Raglan Street
o. 1913 by P McKenzie in North Woodside Halls.

Gaiety Theatre
625, Argyle Street
o. 19.12.09 in old variety th. Used as Glasgow Concert Hall from 29.1.63. Cl, dem. 7.68.

Medicinema
Yorkhill Hopsital
Medicinema in old lecture theatre.

(also a list for Edinburgh http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/edinburgh/missing.html)

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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby dimairt » Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:49 pm

Green's Picturedrome/Round Toll/Magnet
41, Possil Road
o. 1912 in back court. Arch. Cl, dem., 5.55.

Empire Eragraph
60, Raglan Street
o. 1913 by P McKenzie in North Woodside Halls

Good luck with this one Nodrog, you'll need it. I've never seen anything about the Magnet though I do know a few folk who were regulars.
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.

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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby sunnysider » Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:06 pm

Nodrog - of no immediate use to you I don't think, but interesting nonetheless: a similar project to yours in my neck of the woods.

Apologies if you know all about this site and the people running it already, and best of luck with what you're doing.


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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby cameron » Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:47 pm

Who could forget the " Electric" at Georges Cross or "The Wee Endrick" on Garscube road-if you went there you were sure to leave with a few parasites.
Admission to either was sixpence and the seats were wooden benches which were kinda sticky.
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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby mairead » Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:33 am

What a fantastic thread. Thanks for all the old pictures. The Rio, Roxy, and the Seamore were the picture halls I went to in my youth. Also the Star, which was known locally as the 'Fleapit'
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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby nodrog » Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:53 pm

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.


Hi Eddy,
It's not the Woodside Halls in Glenfarg St as they were opened in 1925 I believe; going by the date we have for the cinema it must have been a different building.
Details are somewhat scarce though, which is the problem !

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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby flyman » Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:39 pm

I remember going to the ABC minors on the one that stood on Edinburgh Road/riddrie.Loads of wee snake belted black sannie schemies in one big hall watching Mighty Mouse and trying not to wander into the wrong section when you went for a pee,ah memories..........
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Postby Glasgogirl » Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:31 am

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


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Oh I remember going to the State for many, many movies. Back in the 60's/70's.
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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:41 am

The demolition of The State Cinema Shettleston

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Re: capitol/bombay

Postby the researcher » Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:29 pm

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.

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Re: Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

Postby RDR » Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:42 pm

I'm looking for information on the Picturedrome Cinema.
This thread lists one such cinema with that name but it doesn't fit with the one I'm looking for.
Specifically the one I'm after was at 21 Govan Street, Gorbals, which was later known as Ballater Street.
It was owned by George Green, the same Green who owned the Green's playhouse.

I was born and brought up in the Gorbals in the 60's but cannot remember a cinema of that name, though it is always possible it had already been demolished by then.
I wonder if anyone has a picture?
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