Playhouse Cinema
Academy Street,
Inverness,
IV2 3PP
Academy Street,
Inverness,
IV2 3PP
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: A.B. King, Caledonian Associated Cinemas Ltd.
Architects: John Fairweather
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Located in Inverness city centre, near the junction of Academy Street and Millburn Road, the Playhouse Cinema opened on 7th December 1929, for Highland Cinema Company Ltd. The general manager was Alexander B. King (later Sir A. B. King) and the cinema had a Western Electric(WE) sound system. The proscenium was 36ft 10ins wide and there was a café.
In the early-1940’s the Playhouse Cinema was grouped with other A. B. King cinemas as Caledonian Associated Cinemas Ltd.
In the 1950’s a CinemaScope screen, measuring 30ft by 18ft, was installed.
On 14th March 1972, during a run of “Le Mans”, starring Steve McQueen, the Playhouse was destroyed by fire.
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Address might have been 6, as the building at 8-10 is now the end of the block. This was directly across from where Baron Taylor’s Street comes out onto Academy. Academy now at least becomes Millburn. I don’t know if it always did. I think the theater was roughly where the mercat cross for the ugly mall is. It is a bit confusing, since the still extant Falcon Foundry once had a large hall which appears from a 1975 photo to have extended all the way out to Academy, but doesn’t show up in any of the photos of the theater.