Motherwell

Barrie Street

(New) Cinema

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o. late 30s as replacement for burnt-out Alhambra. Flat Art Deco frontage. Dem.

Camp St x Parkhead St

Electric Theatre

Other names: Empire

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Camp St / Parkhead St

Opened January 1911 as cinema. Gave up films for live theatre, 1917, with films brought back for summer seasons.

Closed 1958. Converted to a garage; now demolished.

Brandon Street, by Cross

La Scala

Photo courtesy of the Scottish Screen Archive.

Opened 1920 by SCVT, seating 930. Closed 1959. Demolished for supermarket.

Windmillhill Street

Motherwell Theatre

Other names: New Century – Rex

Image above courtesy of ' dusashenka '

Windmill Street

here and below

The New Century Theatre opened

as a variety hall in 1902, seating 1,500. It became a shortlived cinema

called the Motherwell Theatre from 1913-1915, before returning to its

original name. It closed in 1933 for rebuilding, and re-opened as the

Rex cinema in 1936, with only the facade retained from the earlier

building. It now seated 2,031. Closure came in 1976, after which it was

used for first amusements, then as a nightclub and was finally

demolished in 1995.

Additional exterior photo c1993

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Brandon Street

Odeon

Photo above c1993 courtesy Chris Doak

Another exterior photo can be seen

The Odeon Motherwell opened on Hogmanay 1938, designed by the cinema

chain's house architects Andrew

Mather, and originally sat 1,752. The exterior was covered in

cream

faience tiles, later replaced by render. After closing as a cinema in

1975, the building was used as a bingo hall until demolition in 1995.

In the interior picture, courtesy Janice Clark, taken when on bingo,

note the octagonal Odeon clock on the RHS of the proscenium.

This was one of only 3 purpose-built circuit-style Odeon cinemas built in Scotland - the other two were at Hamilton (also now demolished) and Ayr

(still open in 2008). Others Odeons had been planned for Bridgeton,

Dumbarton, Falkirk, Partick, Springburn and Townhead, but these were

never completed due to the start of the Second World War.

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123, Brandon Street

Pavilion

Image courtesy of Bruce Peter

o. 1913 by T. Ormiston in former variety theatre of 1900. s. 1,200.

Sold to Gaumont, 3.28. Renamed Gaumont, 25.2.52. Cl. 15.8.59 for

ballroom. Destroyed by fire, 5.63. Site cleared, 1966. Car park for

adj. Odeon.