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 Ben Cooper
 
Location: Scotland
 |  |  | Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
< on 11/18/2010 11:05 PM >
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Govan's Lyceum Cinema dates from 1938 - at the time it was a stunning modernist cinema with a curved backlit wall of glass, and seated 2,600. Bought by County in 1974, it was split in two, with bingo in the stalls and a 480-seat cinema in what was the balcony - the beautiful circular entrance was partitioned.
The cinema side continued until 1981, with the original circular paybox pulled to one side - it's still there:
County were bought by Gala in 2006, who closed the bingo side - the cinema has been unused since then, and getting pretty derelict, but the new owner has plans to redevelop it - reopening the cinema side, and using the stalls as a performance space. This was a by-invitation visit to take pictures to help with bids for funding.
First, the cinema side - to one side of the entrance are some rooms with old film posters, including a 3D Ben Hur one! That didn't photograph well:
The stairs up to the cinema are very elegant:
Then the upper foyer and toilets - I never usually bother photographing the cludgies, but these were pretty:
Into the cinema itself:
With some very cool '30s lights:
Up to the projection booth - no projectors, but I found them under the cinema floor.
In the power room next to the projection booth were a couple of mercury vapour rectifiers:
A quick look into the roof space:
There were some bits and pieces of film lying about - mostly "Coming Soon" snippets, but I did find a Kia-Ora advert 
Back stairs:
 
The other side of the stairs to the balcony, with original gilt mouldings:
Next, into the bingo side, and the other half of the circular entrance:
Bingo book sales desk:
The stalls, with the amazing original screen area:
Down to the basement for a quick look at the boilers:
And finally back to the stalls:
More, as usual, in my Flickr set...
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buckybear
 
Gender: Male
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 1 on 11/19/2010 1:02 AM >
| | | | Was there a pipe organ on either side of the screen? Sometimes grills like that were used for pipe chambers other times they were used for the A/C system. Lovely cinema and very streamline art deco.
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Ben Cooper
Location: Scotland
| | | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 2 on 11/19/2010 9:31 AM >
| | | | I don't think there was ever an organ here - 1938 is a bit late for that. It's certainly air conditioning back there now...
http://www.transientplaces.co.uk |
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Liska
Location: Western Massachusetts
Gender: Female
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 3 on 11/19/2010 12:46 PM >
| | | | I'm a theatre addict. Beautiful on all!
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fiftyone_eggs
 
Location: jerzey
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 4 on 11/19/2010 2:54 PM >
| | | | stellar photos, wicked angles! i love the one with all the theater seats looking at the big, blank cinderblock wall.
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yaggy
  
Location: Tunnel #8
Gender: Male
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 5 on 11/19/2010 3:48 PM >
| | | | i could spend a day in there.
i love a good cinema with tons of
passageways, extra rooms and all that.
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PositivePressure
Location: High and low where most don't go
Gender: Male
Set your Tesla coil to broil
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 8 on 11/20/2010 10:01 AM >
| | | | 100% awesome. I love the old 30s stuff - my favorite architectural era by far.
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nettech09
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 9 on 11/20/2010 1:18 PM >
| | | | amazing set of pics its ashame that place like this are just set to rot when they have such amazing architecture and history
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
| |  | | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 10 on 11/20/2010 4:30 PM >
| | | | Is there anywhere you can donate to the resto fund?
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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zeteckiller
Location: Co.Cork. Ireland
Gender: Male
Drive Her Straight Sideways
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 12 on 12/9/2010 8:05 PM >
| | | | just saw this thread. great photos. i have family in glasgow, i'd say they probably know the building. must ask them.
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Socom Xe
Location: Northeast
Gender: Male
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 14 on 12/11/2010 12:47 PM >
| | | | Great pictures man. Like the wide lens too.
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PowSkierNH
Location: New England
| | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 15 on 1/15/2011 9:44 PM >
| | | | Very nice. Those 3-phase MV recitfiers are rather rare. Those are called cooper-hewitt rectifiers. They must have some big DC needs to require those. Probably carbon arc projectors or something. Were there any amps or speakers left? those sometimes are quite cool.
Thanks for posting.
What focal length was that btw? Suuuuuuper wide.
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Ben Cooper
Location: Scotland
| | | Re: Lyceum Cinema, Scotland
<Reply # 16 on 1/15/2011 11:42 PM >
| | | | I don't remember any amps - unless this is an amp on the left?
The speakers were modern ones - nothing interesting.
The lens is 12mm
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