Odeon Fort Kinnaird Edinburgh

New Craighall Road, Kinnaird Park,
Edinburgh, EH15 3RD

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woody
woody on November 3, 2008 at 11:53 pm

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UCI towards the end of its life

woody
woody on November 3, 2008 at 11:52 pm

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site of the uci

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woody on November 3, 2008 at 11:42 pm

The UCI was the first multiplex in Edinburgh, it was built in a corner of the Fort Kinnaird retail park, it had a standard UCI layout, an unremarkable brick box with a trademark UCI pitched glass roof over the front doors, a large square lobby with six screens off each side, eight at the back of the building and four at the front.
The screens had a very shallow rake.
The premiere for TRAINSPOTTING was held at the UCI.
It was an incredibly busy cinema, BRAVE HEART ran here for over a year.
Gradually competition from newer multiplex sites took business away from the UCI, first the ABC in Westerhailes, then the UGC Fountainbridge, then the Ster Century at Leith and then the Warner at Greenside Place.
The owners of the Fort Kinnaird wanted to expand the number of shops and size of the park, so the (by now) Odeon closed and was swiftly demolished in the summer of 2008.