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Tranent Cinemas
Winton Cinema
High Street
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Opened 1921; closed 1960s. Part-time cine-bingo until 1972. Warehouse for a while, now a church.
Picture above courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive / Cinema Theatre Association.
Originally owned by William
Codona, who had previously run a number of travelling cinema Bioscope shows
operating in the Edinburgh
area. Before that he had a theatre booth, in which he and his family
played the principal roles,
known as the 'Geiggey'.
Photo below of the side of the auditorium courtesy of Norrie Mcnamee.
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