Scottish Cinemas and Theatres
Astoria
Manse Road, Corstorphine
Opened 1st January 1930 by FR Graham-Yooll.
Designed by T. Bowhill Gibson to seat 1,228.
Featured a 2/4 (2 manuals, 4 ranks of pipes) organ built by Ingram (of Edinburgh).
Later sold to Kingsway Ents. Closed 29 January 1974.
Demolished c.1976 and replaced by a supermarket.
Image above courtesy of Tony Moss Archive / Cinema Theatre Association Archive; another exterior here.
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Images above courtesy of Larry Mcguire, Scottish Theatre Organ Preservation Society
Demolition photos below from 1976 courtesy of Alistair Kerr.
Image below courtesy of Frank Watson / SCOT.
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