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gap74 wrote:Looking at Google Maps, I'm guessing it was actually SpindlehowE Rd, which does indeed intersect with Crofthead St - looks like there's been a fair bit of redevelopment there though.
Josef wrote:gap74 wrote:New PH Uddingston
700s. Closed 1958, originally a public hall. Demolished for extension to Grammar school. The building was originally erected as a public hall, and hosted many performances of local operatic and choral groups. The silent "pictures" were first brought to Uddingston by a Mr White, a plumber, and a Mr Young, an electrician. Later, Mr Lionel Horton took over the hall and renamed the building the Picture House.
Pavilion Spindlehow Road / Crofthead Street Uddingston Demolished
744 seats. O.1921. 'Picturesque, in the Oriental style'. Extended 1925. Closed mid 50s.
Town Hall Uddingston
(Possibly the New PH referred to above?)
I also seem to recall a fella contacting us who was related to George Palmer, the man behind the George cinemas chain across the Central belt - he was also looking unsuccessfully for a photo of the Uddingston one, although I'm not sure which of the above three became a George.
Sorry, bit rubbish!
Josef wrote:
There is a story that the owner was fined in the forties for not showing the statutory quota of British films.
Josef wrote:Josef wrote:gap74 wrote:New PH Uddingston
700s. Closed 1958, originally a public hall. Demolished for extension to Grammar school. The building was originally erected as a public hall, and hosted many performances of local operatic and choral groups. The silent "pictures" were first brought to Uddingston by a Mr White, a plumber, and a Mr Young, an electrician. Later, Mr Lionel Horton took over the hall and renamed the building the Picture House.
Pavilion Spindlehow Road / Crofthead Street Uddingston Demolished
744 seats. O.1921. 'Picturesque, in the Oriental style'. Extended 1925. Closed mid 50s.
Town Hall Uddingston
(Possibly the New PH referred to above?)
I also seem to recall a fella contacting us who was related to George Palmer, the man behind the George cinemas chain across the Central belt - he was also looking unsuccessfully for a photo of the Uddingston one, although I'm not sure which of the above three became a George.
Sorry, bit rubbish!
It was the one in Crofthead Street.
It was apparently cleared much earlier than the rest of the area, which went in the seventies.
There is a story that the owner was fined in tFilms he forties for not showing the statutory quota of British films.
Dexter St. Clair wrote:Josef wrote:
There is a story that the owner was fined in the forties for not showing the statutory quota of British films.
The quota gave rise to another Glasgow putdown of something that was rubbish. "Is this a British Picture?"
... The quota was initially set at 7.5% for exhibitors, which was raised to 20% in 1935.
It established the Cinematograph Films Council (which was abolished in 1985) and set the British screen quota for feature films and for short films at 15 per cent for renters and 12½ for exhibitors. This was to encourage bigger budget films that could compete better internationally, although producers were concerned that it would lead to more American production in the UK—a policy approved by the Board of Trade.
Repealed by and consolidated in Films Act 1960.
THE CELLULOID AND CINEMATOGRAPH FILM ACT 1922
12&13 Geo.5 c.35
An Act to make better provision for the prevention of fires in premises where raw celluloid or cinematograph film is stored or used.
...
The Act applied in Scotland except in 'the city and royal burgh of Glasgow' nor in the city of Liverpool, which had its own law in the Liverpool Corporation Act 1921.
gap74 wrote:
Aye, photos of Uddingston cinemas have utterly eluded us, although we've info on three of them in the database:
Spittal wrote:Found another pic of Caldervale on the web in the form of an old postcard.
Redlees Farm in the foreground and the houses of Caldervale in the background.
Alex.
Josef wrote:gap74 wrote:
Aye, photos of Uddingston cinemas have utterly eluded us, although we've info on three of them in the database:
A poor next-best-thing, I suppose :
From 1950/51 judging by the films.
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