Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of dining area.
SC 680419
Description Edinburgh, Picture Theatre, interior. View of dining area.
Date 1914
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 680419
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 22541/7
Scope and Content Tea Room, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh The New Picture House, designed by Atkinson & Alexander, opened in 1913 as one of Edinburgh's new 'respectable' cinemas. The complex included two tea rooms and a café, and was photographed in 1914 by the distinguished photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This elegant tea room, designed for 'a better class of patron', had Ionic pilasters around the walls, and a domed ceiling with graceful plasterwork detail. Each table is covered in a crisp white tablecloth and has the obligatory cake-stand at floor level. The cinema was converted from the banqueting hall of a hotel which occupied the site, and formed an elaborate complex on several floors. The auditorium, with seating for almost 1,000 patrons, had a large orchestra, and later, a great cinema organ. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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