Regal Cinema
90 Dundee Street,
Carnoustie,
DD7 7PH
90 Dundee Street,
Carnoustie,
DD7 7PH
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In Carnoustie, Angus, on the coast between Dundee and Arbroath, the Regal Cinema was a conversion of a former church. It was not listed in the 1934 Kinematograph Year book. It was listed in the 1937 edition with 900 seats, and in the 1940 edition, when the owner was The Angus Cinema Company Ltd.
That ownership continued in 1954. The Regal Cinema had closed around 1958. In the 1960’s it became a bingo club.
When I visited, in March 2009, the building was home to the All Stars Sports Bar and Diner. Later it became the Shotz bar, which had closed by early-2017.
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Last listed in the Kine Year Books in 1958. Was the Shotz bar after All Stars but even that now seems to have closed.
The Angus Cinema Company was a small circuit which operated the Regal and Pavilion Cinemas in Carnoustie, the Rio Newport on Tay and the Alhambra Monifieth ( acquired from Gaumont British). By the 1970s on the Pavilion Carnoustie was still operating as a cinema under the management of Tom Suttie, managing director of Angus Cinema Co. The Regal was disused at this time, Newport on Tay Rio was an antiques shop and Monifieth Alhambra had become a garage and service station. When Tom Suttie retired in the early ‘70s he sold the Pavilion to an enterprising ex projectionist from the Dominion Edinburgh who renamed it the Dominion. It has since closed and been demolished as has the former Monifieth cinema. Newport on Tay Rio survives in alternative use.
Above should read “ by the 1970s ONLY the Pavilion Carnoustie was still operating as a cinema.”