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Visit http://www.scottishcinemas.org for 1000s of current & archive pictures of 100s of cinemas across Scotland. Run by @GordonBarr.scot and @garypainter74.bksy.social since 2001.
Camels, Monkeys & Prancing Deer: A talk on Scotland’s Exotic Cinema Building History! Live (in front of) the big screen at The Broadway Cinema, 80 Main St, Prestwick KA9 1PA Sat 29 August @ 12.30pm Tickets £10 All proceeds go towards the Broadway restoration fund. tinyurl.com/PrestwickTalk
Fantastic news out of Harris this morning, where a huge swathe of the isle (as well as numerous others and hundreds of crofts) are set to come under community ownership Story: Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
Locals win £1m to buy 27,000-acre Scottish island estate after 14-year campaign
A HUGE Scottish estate with its own private island is set to be purchased by the local community after a £1 million grant was secured ...
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In case any Edinburgh social history people are interested: I have an MSc student looking at bath- and wash-house usage statistics, and he's turned up a Carnegie report from 1918 with these photos of the Simon Square wash-house.
So lucky to get into the Kings Theatre for the first time since its 4 year refurbishment. It's looking beautiful. Quite lovely to see the plaque for Councillor Val Waller.
Happy 80th birthday to Glasgow-born screenwriter/film director, Bill Forsyth. Here he is, making a hand impression in wet cement, outside the city's Grosvenor Cinema. Pic: Daily Record
The Art Deco former Odeon Cinema on Renfield Street in Glasgow. Designed by Verity and Beverley, it opened in 1934 as the Paramount with a seating capacity of 2,800. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #cinema #artdeco
We are delighted that planning permission for The Belmont Cinema has been formally approved by Aberdeen City Council 🧡 More information here: belmontcinema.co.uk/latest/plann...
The La Scala and the Classic were different guises of the same cinema. A remarkable survivor, a recent planning application for this long-vacant building… https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/07/06/the-sally-army-the-scabby-lala-and-x-rated-in-the-city-the-thread-about-the-la-scala-electric-theatre/
The Sally Army, the “Scabby Lala” and X-Rated in the City: the thread about the La Scala Electric Theatre
The La Scala and the Classic were different guises of the same cinema. A remarkable survivor, a recent planning application for this long-vacant building provides an excuse to reflect on its surprisingly long, interesting history: at times pioneering, at times pious and at times seedy.
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Tonight!* A Special Presentation - For One Night Only! Glasgow’s Cinema Experiment! A @westfest.bsky.social illustrated heritage lecture about the history of cinema buildings including Glasgow’s Wonder Cinema! Kelvin Hall, 7pm, Free & unticketed *if you’re seeing this on Weds 24th
I want ‘U’ in to hear about Glasgow’s Cinema Experiment in a newly updated, fully illustrated @scottishcinemas.org heritage talk - part of this year’s @westfest.bsky.social Heritage Talks - at the Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre on Weds 24th June at 7pm. Free & Unticketed! westfest.uk/event/herita...
Glasgow folks! Come see me giving a brand new (*) heritage lecture on Glasgow’s Cinema Experiment at 7pm on 24th June at the Kelvin Hall - absolutely free and unticketed as part of WestFest 2026. (*) Contains approximately 7% new material compared to previous talks. westfest.uk/event/herita...
Bruce Peter gave a talk on Art Deco Cinemas this evening as a precursor the silent film festival Hippfest which takes place at the Bo'ness Hippodrome next month - if you didn't catch it live, it's available to watch anytime on YouTube here: youtu.be/-K1cziQ_Fj8
Art Deco Cinema Architecture
YouTube video by Falkirk Leisure and Culture
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What was your #childhoodcinema ? ABC Muirend, aka The Toledo (1933–2001). Designed to look like a Spanish courtyard. Fairly decrepit by the 1970s. Memories of watery Kia-Ora orange drink, "Pearl & Dean presents" and badly-pronounced ads for "Anderson's of Newton Meerns" 1/5
What was your #childhoodcinema ? The George in Portobello, Edinburgh. They let me and my pals in to see the then-X-rated 'Enter the Dragon' in 1973 – we were eight. Good times
j-e-l@jelbugle.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhat was your #childhoodcinema Saw a lot of films at the cinema in Ealing Broadway (pictured), and at the flea pit in West Ealing, and def remember seeing Return of the Jedi at the Odeon on Northfields Avenue
Elgin Playhouse. Many an 80s classic in here (ET, Ghostbusters, Rambo) and bizarrely, due to a lack of any babysitter, the Life of Brian (try understanding that when you’re 7). The picture is how I remember it.
Jaunty Art@jaunty.art · 7mo agoAyr Odeon You can see on the right there is an emergency exit door on the metal stairs that we would get the one person that we’d clubbed together to get a ticket to open so we could all sneak in for free #childhoodcinema
Glasgow Odeon on Renfield St. First picture house I ever went to. Saw first three Star Wars movies here (ROTJ on release day straight after school), Superman 1 and 2, and Ghostbusters too. The stuff of childhood myth making. #ChildhoodCinema
Moray@moraynewlands.bsky.social · 7mo agoElgin Playhouse. Many an 80s classic in here (ET, Ghostbusters, Rambo) and bizarrely, due to a lack of any babysitter, the Life of Brian (try understanding that when you’re 7). The picture is how I remember it.
The Odeon on Clerk Street Edinburgh is where I saw Star Wars. Because I was only 5 and small it felt like it held roughly a million people. #childhoodcinema
Johnny Mains@johnnymains.co.uk · 7mo agoWhat was your #childhoodcinema Kingsway, Galashiels
Ayr Odeon You can see on the right there is an emergency exit door on the metal stairs that we would get the one person that we’d clubbed together to get a ticket to open so we could all sneak in for free #childhoodcinema
Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe Odeon on Clerk Street Edinburgh is where I saw Star Wars. Because I was only 5 and small it felt like it held roughly a million people. #childhoodcinema
What was your #childhoodcinema? Odeon, Clerk Street, Edinburgh Been standing empty for almost quarter of a century.
Grumio@grumio.eurosky.social · 7mo agoWhat was your #childhoodcinema? ABC Fulham Road, London - now closed and being redeveloped into something yuppie
What was your #childhoodcinema The Playhouse in Perth. A proper Pearl & Dean special with slideshow adverts for local carpet companies and curry houses. They didn't let me have a Batman Returns standee as a kid ☹️ It's still there today and amazingly is now the only IMAX cinema in the area.
What was your #childhoodcinema The Showcase in Gorton (East Manchester). Someone at some point found out that none of the alarms on the fire exits worked. We used to take turns to buy a ticket, go in alone then open the fire exit in the screen so everyone else could sneak in for free.
Upcoming @scottishcinemas.org Talk! Me & Gary Painter are giving our illustrated double-act talk about Glasgow cinema - both the old buildings & the city itself on screen - for @glasgowheritage.bsky.social on Feb 25. Unfortunately sold out already but let them know if any demand for an encore!
Great to be in London yesterday at the Cinema Museum giving a @scottishcinemas.org update for the AGM of @CTheatreAssoc - the core of the collection there is from Aberdeen so lots of Scottish cinema artefacts on display!
This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙
APPEAL: The Govan Stones needs more volunteers for our 2025 Season, which is shaping up to be our biggest and busiest since AD 900! If you want to try your hand at pretty much anything we do at the museum, from working in the shop to tours, just email us at: 📨 info@thegovanstones.org.uk
