Fife’s Art Deco Heritage 1. Lochgelly. Cinema De Luxe.

Cinema De Luxe Front

This is in Bank Street, Lochgelly, just over the road and up a bit from the Lochgelly Centre which is being upgraded at the moment. The cinema was opened in the 1930s and was used for bingo for a while. It now houses a building contractor’s. Pity about the derelict unprepossessing shop fronts which make up the rest of the picture.

Cinema De Luxe from left

The towery bits (chimneys?) are very deco and unusually are at right angles to each other.

The entranceway is also strikingly deco as is the fenestration throughout.

Cinema De Luxe from right

The shade of blue is possibly a bit too dark, though.

Some of the internal fittings are still there apparently (see link above.)

In the late 1970s whle it was still a cinema it looked like this and this.

Since most of the building is set back from the road it’s actually quite easy to miss noticing it when driving through the town. (Despite the shade of blue.)

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  1. David Thompson

    That is a very interesting design. Do you think the shops were always there? I suppose so because the strange, yet wonderful, deco entrance wouldn’t have been built that way if they had had better street frontage.

  2. jackdeighton

    Thanks for looking in and commenting, David.
    I don’t know about how long the shops have been there but what you say certainly makes sense of the unusual design.

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