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6 buildings

6 cinemas recorded in the Scottish Cinemas archive.

2 mapped cinemas · View map →
Closed/Repurposed

83, High Street, Cowdenbeath

Picture House

Other names: New Picture House

View location on Google Mapsfacebook.com →Picture House / New Picture House, CowdenbeathGraham Kelly

Opened in 1920 but plans may have existed for a cinema on the site since before the First World War. Pupils from Broad Street School were treated to a free screening on opening day.

Sat around 1,500. Renamed New Picture House in 1935 by when taken over by Sir Alexander B. King. Transferred again to the J.B. Milne circuit in the early 1950s.

Bingo part-time until the 1980s, then full-time. Was run as a Premier Bingo until the Covid pandemic, after which it seems to have become a social club with occasional bingo called Shorty's.

Projectors still in situ.

DATABASE RECORDS

Other Cowdenbeath cinemas

These cinemas are recorded in the database but do not yet have a linked photographic page. Do you have a photo or other information? Email us!

NameAddressWhat we know
ArcadeOther names: Slora's CinemaHigh Street Early cinema. Burnt down, 1954. Originally a theatre; accessed through an arcade.
Brunton's HallAddress not recordedBuilding type: hall · Opened: 1912 · Coordinates: 56.108934, -3.344201 · Info from EarlyCinema.org.uk
EmpireAddress not recordedArchitect: JD Swanston · o. 1899 as theatre. Arch. JD Swanston. Cine-variety from 1914. Full-time cinema from 1922. Probably not being used as a cinema in the 50s, as the Picture House is said to have had no competition after the Arcade burnt down. · Demolished
Scott's CinematographAddress not recordedBuilding type: hall · Opened: 1912 · Source: Kilsyth Journal 1918.01.05 · Coordinates: 56.108934, -3.344201 · Info from EarlyCinema.org.uk
Slora's Electric TheatreOther names: ArcadeHigh Street Programme: Cine-variety · Building type: theatre · Capacity: 1000 · Opened: 1912 · Closed: 1954 · Originally a theatre accessed through an arcade. · Source: The Bioscope 09.04.14, Bioscope Annual 1915, Snapshot1913 · Coordinates: 56.108934, -3.344201 · Info from EarlyCinema.org.uk

Last updated: 4/9/26 at 20:12 by gary