Scottish Cinemas and Theatres
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Embassy / George
Portland Street  Built as the Embassy, in 1937, for the KR Blair circuit. Designed by the prolific James McKissack, it had a cloud-shaped facade in cream tiles (similar to the surviving Raith in Kirkcaldy), with shop units either side of main entrance. Taken over by the George Palmer cicuit in 1946, and soon renamed as the George. Closed as a cinema in 1974, and lay derelict for a while, before the foyer and auditorium were demolished in 1986/7 to allow construction of flats. Only the shop-units on either side - still with their cream tiles - remain.  Demolition gallery below (and archive shot above) c1987 courtesy Alistair Mulhearn; additional thanks to John Bigham.
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Picture House
Portland Street
Opened c1912; architect John Wilson.
Woolworths occupied a box inside the original auditorium with a new frontage. This was demolished in
March 2011 to allow a new Tesco to be built.
The auditorium decoration was surprisingly intact at the time of demolition; thanks to Alistair Goldsmith for
managing to capture its demise in such detail.
Full demolition gallery can be found here.
Pavilion
Templehill
Demolished; was round the corner from the Embassy; same owners as Picture House, Darvel.
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