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Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of heating furnaces and pipes.
SC 680417
Description Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of heating furnaces and pipes.
Date 1914
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 680417
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 22541/6
Scope and Content Boiler House, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh The New Picture House, Princes Street, designed by Atkinson & Alexander, opened in 1913 as a cinema complex on the lower floors of a hotel on the site. A series of photographs of the interior was taken in 1914 by the photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The spotlessly-clean boiler house was situated in the basement. Its massive coal-fired boilers fuelled a heating system which not only supplied the auditorium which had a seating capacity of almost 1,000 people, but also two tea rooms and a café. The New Picture House was designed for 'the top end of market'. It opening attractions included an air-conditioning system that guaranteed to change the air in the auditorium 12 times an hour, and a full orchestra which accompanied the silent films. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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