Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of firehose and tap.
SC 680412
Description Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of firehose and tap.
Date 1914
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 680412
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 22541/3
Scope and Content Fire-fighting equipment, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh The New Picture House, Princes Street, opened in 1913 as a new 'refined' cinema complex, constructed in the lower floors of a hotel that existed on the site. The interior was photographed in 1914 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This display of fire-fighting equipment, seen here in a recess in the oak-panelling of one of the cinema's tea rooms, includes a fire extinguisher and a water hose. The chair (left) may have been deliberately positioned by Lemere for the photograph. In 1909 the Cinematograph Act was passed which effectively altered the design of the cinema. The law required that the projection booth had to be separate from the auditorium, and laid down minimum fire precautions which local by-laws made even tighter. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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