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Shire Hall 100 Belmore Street, Yarrawonga, VIC

The projection booth is empty, the equipment is gone. Film is now obsolete, replaced by digital. If you concentrate and with a little imagination one can see Harry Haebich or Stan Victor threading the machines on a Saturday night as they prepare to screen one of the great Hollywood classics of the day to a house full of appreciative picture goers in a time long ago.

For those who believe that old cinemas have souls you could argue that there is much more to a theatre than just bricks and mortar. Should we consider the personalities of the owners, along with the memories of the passing presence of countless movie fans, who over the decades sat under the stars on warm summer nights in The Grove Picture Gardens, or were cocooned in the mysterious darkness of the Shire Hall, while enjoying the transported screen images of time and place

Contributed by Greg Lynch -