View of dining area, the Edinburgh Picture Theatre or New Picture House cinema on Princes Street. It opened in 1913 and was demolished in 1951 to make way for a Marks and Spencer store.
SC 680420
Description View of dining area, the Edinburgh Picture Theatre or New Picture House cinema on Princes Street. It opened in 1913 and was demolished in 1951 to make way for a Marks and Spencer store.
Date 1914
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 680420
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 22541/8
Scope and Content Tea Room, the New Picture House, No 56 Princes Street, Edinburgh This photograph of a tea room in the New Picture House, Princes Street, was taken in 1914 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The cinema complex, opened by Provincial Cinematographic Theatres in 1913, included two tea rooms. This large, elegant room with its domed ceiling and Ionic pilasters around the walls, was furnished very much in the style of a drawing room. The tables, each with a white table cloth, had an accompanying cake-stand at floor level. Provincial Cinematographic Theatres built the New Picture House to provide 'a refined form of entertainment' for Edinburgh's public. It hoped to attract 'a better class of patron' by providing tea rooms and a full orchestra to accompany the silent films. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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