A Son of the Rock

I have already noted the Odeon Cinema in Ayr. Apparently the Gaiety Theatre also used to show films. Checking the Scottish cinemas website I now see that one of the buildings I featured here, was also a cinema, the Orient.

While we were in Ayr I also found the former Green’s Playhouse, in Boswell Park, once the second biggest cinema in Scotland, which opened in 1931 as a replacement for an earlier cinema which had burnt down.

Entrance:-

Roofline:-

Detail:-

By the seaside, on the appropriately named Pavilion Road, is the former Pavilion Cinema, which opened in 1911, has been a ballroom and a nightclub but is now a children’s play centre:-