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Imperial, Cessnock

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Imperial / Ritz
2-6 Govan Road, Cessnock


Opened January 1921, in a conversion of an old stables. It originally seated 1,100, and was rebuilt and re-named Ritz after a fire in 1952. Closing as a cinema in 1959, it is now Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry.




c1975
Archive photos courtesy Chris Doak

c1980

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