Olympia Cinema

Located in the Westcotes district to the southwest of the city centre at the corner of Narborough Road and Walton Street. Originally planned as a 1,100-seat cinema by Loughborough architect Albert E. King. The Olympia Picture House was opened on 4th March 1913. It was taken over in the 1920’s by the H.D. Moorhouse Circuit, and they carried out alterations to the building in 1926 by adding a new circle, but reducing the seating capacity to 800. The proscenium was now 24 feet wide. H.D.M. Circuit installed a British Talking Pictures(BTP) sound system in September 1929 when the first ‘talkie’ to be screened here was Al Jolson in “The Singing Fool” and the Olympia Cinema became the first suburban cinema in the city to be equipped with sound.

In 1955 CinemaScope was installed and the proscenium was widened to 33 feet. The Olympia Cinema was closed in early-1959.

It was later demolished and a garage was built on the site. By 2020 the building on the site is used as a Salvation Army Donation Centre.

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