Dunbar

Lamer Street

Cinema

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Dunbar Cinemas

Dunbar Cinema

Converted to flats, building extant but unrecognisable as a cinema

Address not recorded

Corn Exhange

Other names: Olympia

Photos courtesy of Harry Rigby.

High Street/Corn Exchange Passage

Building extant but derelict.

44, High Street

Empire

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This address was the manager’s house, still extant. Cinema entrance was to left (

Empire Way).

The auditorium was on sloping ground at rear, now demolished. 548 seats in 1950.

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Abbey Road

Playhouse

Photo courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive / Cinema Theatre Association.

Opened in 1939, by Scott's Empires. Later owned by CAC. Plans exist from 1984 for renovation/rebuilding.

It has since been demolished and replaced by a children’s nursery on site. It had 1031 seats in 1950.

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