Regent Cinema

Abbeymount, Edinburgh

 

Reget Cinema, Abbeymount, Edinburgh

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ben Dowell.  For further photos please see Mawgrim's Odeon Cavalcade web site

 

Regent Cinema  -  Abbeymount

The Cinema

Thank you to Gordon Barr for providing the details below.  These details are taken from Gordon's Scottish Cinemas and Theatres web site:

Gordon wrote:

"The Regent Cinema at Abbeymount opened in August 1927.  The Architect was T. Bowhill Gibson, and the original seating was for 1,700.

The cinema was sold to GTC (Gaumont) in March 1928.

It closed in May 1970 and has now been demolished.  There is a garage on the site of the old cinema."

Gordon Barr

 

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