Some people have misunderstood what happened when the ABC became a night club. When it closed the was a steel frame box built in the front of the stalls not connected to the walls in any way. in the origional rear stalls later screens 1&2 they made the night club using all the stalls with the box they made. The circle is intact except for afew ventilation pipes over it so almost like it was when it was screen 3 just the extension in the stalls prevents you from seeing half the screen. All of the origional decor is still there hidden in the darkness there were some bits that because of the listing they could only hang up a cloth over it. I saw my first film in screen 1 in 1999 so this cinema means alot to me and also it contained a Christie Cinema organ until it was trippled.
Sadly the nightclub closed last week and the building is now un-used :(
Some people have misunderstood what happened when the ABC became a night club. When it closed the was a steel frame box built in the front of the stalls not connected to the walls in any way. in the origional rear stalls later screens 1&2 they made the night club using all the stalls with the box they made. The circle is intact except for afew ventilation pipes over it so almost like it was when it was screen 3 just the extension in the stalls prevents you from seeing half the screen. All of the origional decor is still there hidden in the darkness there were some bits that because of the listing they could only hang up a cloth over it. I saw my first film in screen 1 in 1999 so this cinema means alot to me and also it contained a Christie Cinema organ until it was trippled.