ABC Muirend / Toledo
380 Clarkston Rd, Muirend
The last ABC cinema in
Glasgow closed 21st
October 2001.
Everything bar the facade has been demolished, and new flats were
constructed behind that. Additional windows have been added to the
frontage. The entrance foyer to the flats
feature reproductions of some of the decorative features rescued from
the auditorium, and a couple of tiles and light-fittings.
Catgory B
listed building.
Very run-down inside at time of closure, heating had been broken for
over a month;
Some of the original
atmospheric internal decoration
survived on the side walls of the auditorium (see here - but will be slow loading due to lots of
images).
Many of the original
fittings - doors, windows, lights
etc. were still in place at the time of closure.
Originally
(1933) seating 1598, the auditorium tripled in 1982; new Cinema 1
comprised the original circle area with a new screen - 482 seats,
Cinema
2 - 208 seats in old front stalls, using original proscenium opening,
and Cinema 3 - 90 seats in rear stalls.
Original Neon Scheme
Architect was William Beresford Inglis - who also built
other cinemas, as well as the very cinema-like
Beresford
Hotel, now…
ABC Muirend / Toledo
380 Clarkston Rd, Muirend
The last ABC cinema in
Glasgow closed 21st
October 2001.
Everything bar the facade has been demolished, and new flats were
constructed behind that. Additional windows have been added to the
frontage. The entrance foyer to the flats
feature reproductions of some of the decorative features rescued from
the auditorium, and a couple of tiles and light-fittings.
Catgory B
listed building.
Very run-down inside at time of closure, heating had been broken for
over a month;
Some of the original
atmospheric internal decoration
survived on the side walls of the auditorium (see here - but will be slow loading due to lots of
images).
Many of the original
fittings - doors, windows, lights
etc. were still in place at the time of closure.
Originally
(1933) seating 1598, the auditorium tripled in 1982; new Cinema 1
comprised the original circle area with a new screen - 482 seats,
Cinema
2 - 208 seats in old front stalls, using original proscenium opening,
and Cinema 3 - 90 seats in rear stalls.
Original Neon Scheme
Architect was William Beresford Inglis - who also built
other cinemas, as well as the very cinema-like
Beresford
Hotel, now the Beresford Flats.
For a gallery of photos taken before, during and after
demolition,
For a gallery of photos taken during stripping out after
closure, click here .
Latest photo of the exterior (Dec. 2004) - the rebuilt pediment and
refaced facade is visible behind scaffolding
for interior pictures of the Toledo, taken just before closure (slow
loading).
c1982
c1982
c1992
