Summary Record

Date 22 October 2010

Event ID 614497

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Summary Record

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/614497

Designed in a very restrained French Rococo style by Alex Cullen, opened in 1904 and survived for four years before its first closure and refit after the liquidation of the compnay. It quickly became a cinema rather than a theatre and was wired for sound in 1929, early for a regional theatre.

Another refit in the early 1930's saw it re-open as The Regal with a Charles McNair interior. Another refit followed a fire in the mid 1970's and the space was divided into three separate cinemas as part of the ABC chain. The building is now closed and boarded up and its future uncertain.

Information from RCAHMS (CAJS) 2010.

See also 'Scotland's Splendid Theatres' by Bruce Peter (Polygon, 1999)