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nodrog wrote:Ah, that may very well be the house of the bloke that built the cinema, which was in the same style and does still exist!
nodrog wrote:A pic of the house would be great thanks!
There are a couple of pics of the Windsor in her prime in Bruce Peter's Lanarkshire's Legendary Cinemas book as well.
gap74 wrote:Cheers for those pics Ally, quite a contrast, and an abject lesson in how to use brickwork to both bland and extraordinary extremes!
We'll ask one of our sources if he knows for sure if the house with the wall was Burns' house - he wrote a book on Lanarkshire cinemas, and claimed that the house itself was in the same style, so this this is either a case of rescued brickwork or a slight embellishment of the facts!
Incidentally, Burns was apparently quite a character, an Irish showman originally before he went into the cinema business. It is said that he attempted to solve a film renting dispute once by travelling into Glasgow and having a bit of a scrap with the representative of 20th Century Fox there...
May we use the pic of the house on our site (with full credit of course!)?
Cheers,
Gary
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