15 Renfield Street, City Centre
| Opened May 1916, seating 850,
Cranston's DeLuxe was part of a large development by Glasgow based
businesswoman Miss Cranston, which also included restaurants and
tea-rooms. A second cinema, the News Theatre, opened 1954; a third (Tatler Cinema Club) also opened in 1969. Complex was sold and renamed the Classic Film Centre in 1972 (3 screens: 644, 220, 136 seats). Closed 1981 after a bad fire; all but the facade was later demolished. See pictures of the facade lit up at night here. Building is listed, Grade B
Photos from 1990 courtesy of Chris Doak.
One shows front of house and the other is circle; this was taken for a screening of the film "GOAL" for the funding of the Ibrox disaster. |
