New Palace Picture House
18-20 High Street,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1TB
18-20 High Street,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1TB
No one has favorited this theater yet
The New Palace Picture House opened in 1929 with a programme that included the ‘talkie’ short “Her New Chauffeur”. The facade is in a typical Edinburgh stone. It was built for a Mr P.S.L. Lucas. By 1937 and for many years it was leased to J. Penn.
Always independently operated, it closed when the lease ran out on 22nd September 1956 with Charles Laughton in “Captain Kidd” and Leon Ames in “East Side Kids”. It was converted into a retail food store and later in the mid-1960’s McGoo’s club. The nightclub had closed by 2008 and since then it has been converted into retail use as a Heritage Clearance store.
On 29th March 1995, Historic Scotland designated the New Palace Picture House a Grade C(s) Listed building.
Contributed by
Ken Roe
Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater?
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater.
Recent comments (view all 2 comments)
The New Palace Picture House had a 2/8 Hilsdon organ that is now part of a of a 4/45 Hilsdon in the New Palace Theatre Organ Heritage Center in Todholes, Greenlaw, Scotland.
A picture from the late 1970’s: www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_buildings_g/0_buildings–new_palace_cinema_henniker.htm#picture