Scottish Cinemas and Theatres

Glasgow Cinemas

Bridgeton Cross Electric Theatre / Green's Picturedrome
2-28 Olympia Street (formerlly Charles Street)

Image c.1960s. The Olympia is on the left, the Picturedrome on the right,
- with central entrance now bricked up, but the poster boards still visible on the side walls.

Original Image

Opened 1910 by West of Scotland Electric Theatres, from a pre-existing hall. Architect George A Boswell. Leased to Green's from 1912 and renamed Picturedrome. Closed c.1932. Later industrial units; demolished sometime after the mid-1960s. Now a green space.

Pictured in Britain from Above collection:

https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/SPW042529

Featured in Getty Images:

https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/bridgeton-cross-glasgow-is-inundated-with-floodwaters-after-news-photo/3255090

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