Arbroath

1 Queen's Drive, Arbroath

Arbroath Cinema

High Street

New Public Hall

Other names: Webster Hall

Photo courtesy Norrie Mcnamee.

Occasional film use.

Currently (late 2006) undergoing renovation.

56, Market Place

Olympia

View full-size photograph

Opened 1912 in former Corn Exchange. Closed 1959.

Photo and rear view

Now a Wetherspoons bar. B-listed

Photo

Additional photograph — view full sizeAdditional photograph — view full size

James Street

Palace

Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.

Opened May 1940 by ABC, designed by

architect WR Glen to seat 1,488. Passed to JB Milne, October 1963.

Part-week bingo from mid-60s. Sold to Kingsway Ents, early 1970s. Bingo

only from 1984. Sold to Border Movies Ltd, late 1985. Films reinstated

(balcony only). Stalls became roller rink, 1988. Closed 1991. Demolished December 1992

for housing.

Interior pictures c1982, courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive.

Additional pictures (courtesy of Paul Francis) are available

here and

Palace [II]

The building above was on the site of the earlier Palace , which opened on October 1914, seating 1,150. Sold to JB Milne,

1. Absorbed into SCVT, 1917. It was closed and demolished in April 1939.

This in turn was on the site of the even earlier Arbroath Picture Hall / Palace [I]

which had opened in September 1909 in the former Arbroath Theatre of

1901 (itself the former Inverbrothock Free Church). Renamed the Palace

in 1910, it was demolished in June 1914.

Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.Photo above courtesy of Paul Francis, circa 1985.

141, High Street

Picture House

View full-size photograph

Opened 1930 behind Royal Hotel, seating 1036. Bingo since 1970s. Hotel

is B-listed

Additional photograph — view full size