Scotland’s Art Deco Heritage 9. The Ascot Cinema, Anniesland, Glasgow
Posted in Art Deco, Cinemas, Glasgow, Scotland at 10:00 on 16 April 2009
I finally got over to Glasgow and took some (not very good) photos.
This is a former cinema now very sympathetically converted to flats.
The Art Deco/modernist styling of the conversion can also be seen in this second photo.
A better picture than either of mine is on Flickr. It helps that that one was taken in sunshine!
You can read about The Ascot’s history as a cinema at the Scottish cinemas and theatres project website. There are some nice pictures there of the building lit up at night. The historical photos there show that the orange pillars are a relatively new embellishment! They are effective, though. The foyer looks great in the black and white photos.
More information is available at The Glasgow Story where the original configuration of the roof line can be seen.
There is another good picture of the update at Cala Finance.
Martin McCallion
23 April 2009 at 00:49
I’ve passed that a couple of times recently while I’ve been up visiting my Mum, and I wondered whethere you had featured it, or would do so.