Demolished Glasgow Cinemas

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Postby nodrog » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:26 pm

The_Clincher wrote:Does anyone have any pics of the cinema that was along at the Bearsden end of Maryhill Road? i think it was an "ABC" :?:


Not sure if you're maybe thinking of the Roxy, at 1397 Maryhill Road, which you can see a pic of here:
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA00313

or the New Star, at 1046 Maryhill Road, which I don't have a pic of handy I'm afraid...

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Postby supergolden » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:40 pm

Nodrog, I dont mind if you want to use my Demolition pics for your site - though looking through your sets theres not musch different between them. I added a coupl more today: <a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/supergolden/sets/72057594059146031/>clicky</a>
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Postby Dexter St. Clair » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:48 pm

nodrog wrote:
Not sure if you're maybe thinking of the Roxy, at 1397 Maryhill Road, which you can see a pic of here:
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA00313

or the New Star, at 1046 Maryhill Road, which I don't have a pic of handy I'm afraid...

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Postby The_Clincher » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:16 pm

Nodrog....the cinema i speak of used to be here....near Canniesburn Toll-

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Postby Dexter St. Clair » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:35 pm

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Postby gap74 » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:59 am

Just FYI, though, I should point out that the last picture on that site of the cinema next to a war memorial is in fact the Rio in Rutherglen, not the one in Bearsden.
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Postby The_Clincher » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:42 pm

That's the one....thanks, Dex.
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Postby nodrog » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:49 pm

There goes another one...
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Postby Toaster » Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:13 pm

And another one going soon...objections run to 3 figures but "oh, it's gone too far to save it". Shockeroony.

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5050789.html
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Postby duck » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:12 pm

Back on page I of this post Wee Mo asked about the cinema on Paisley Road West but I couldn't see a reply. It was called the Mosspark Picture House.
Just before that post, Gap74 said he had a picture of henglers Circus - did you ever post it?
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Postby gap74 » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:39 pm

I'll be happy to oblige, although as regards Hengler's, there were actually three premises which operated under that name in Glasgow.

The first Hengler's was a conversion of an 1849 music hall in West Nile St called the Prince's Theatre. This was converted to Hengler's Circus in in 1863, and was successful enough to warrant rebuilding and enlargement in 1867 and again in 1877. The site today is where the derelict General Accident building behind the Odeon is.

By 1883, it had become too small, so a fantastic looking new building was erected in Wellington St, designed by Britain's foremost theatre architect, Frank Matcham. This continued until 1900, when it too closed due to a problem with the lease, and due to competition from rival circus and hippodrome operations in Cowcaddens (run by E.H. Bostock, a structure still surviving today as the Chinese supermarket/restaurant/outdoor shop/snooker club) and in Sauchiehall St (run by Arthur Hubner, a conversion of a former diorama and ice rink which has subsequently been converted in a dance hall and then the ABC cinema). Both rivals appeared in 1897.

Hengler thus had no permanent base in Glasgow until Hubner's Sauchiehall St operations ran into difficulty, allowing him to take it over in 1904. Spectuacular shows continued there until 1924, when it was converted to the ballroom. Inevitably, given that the building had probably hosted Glasgow's first cinema show in 1896, film had started to feature more prominently in the final years of Hengler's, and the replacement ballroom only lasted another 5 years before conversion again to the Regal cinema.

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Postby nodrog » Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:57 pm

duck wrote:Back on page I of this post Wee Mo asked about the cinema on Paisley Road West but I couldn't see a reply. It was called the Mosspark Picture House.


There's a photo of the Mosspark Picture House here:
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA00316

Other cinemas on Paisley Road West included the Scenic (1911 - 1938)
and the Westway, both now demolished:
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[I could have sworn I'd posted this before, but I can't seem to find it, so I guess not!]
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Postby gap74 » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:00 pm

Nah, you hadn't posted it, I think it was an email query we got!

But good show, saves me having to scan that pic later, since it's the same one!
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Postby duck » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:12 pm

Thanks a lot Gary. Based on what you said I suppose my grandfather would have been in the Sauchiehall Street one. Thanks a lot!
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Postby duck » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:13 pm

Which will probably make no sense to you - explanation on my post in the coffee lounge under Henglers Circus. Sorry!!
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