O2 ABC Glasgow

dizzydevil on May 18, 2023 at 8:54 am

From 2018 on the BBC website about the fire and the O2 abc history! And I agree with Mike_blakmore’s comment given its LONG history as part of Glasgow’s landscape (ALSO OF NOTE IT WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT IN 1875 AND WENT THROUGH MANY CHANGES BEFORE) Next door, Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s new home for the Glasgow School of Art was under construction, the first half opening in 1899 and the second half in 1909. I mean 143 yrs of exitance only classed a grade C building NOW to be Possibly demolished (news reports from 2020) after this devastating fire at the Glasgow School of Arts ..

we have lost SO MANY CINEMAS ACROSS SCOTLAND, WALES, AND ENGLAND over the yrs to demolition…. all be it if they took on different lives after closing as a cinema and Prolonged their existence be it a bingo hall or night club, etc These days so many historical building (not just cinemas) are being torn down in the name of Progress to be replaced with boxy offices or apartments/housing!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-44520030

machineage on April 30, 2020 at 6:12 pm

Demolition now imminent: https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/o2-abc-demolition-vermin-sewage-18175997

Alan Baker on June 16, 2018 at 8:54 am

Remarkably, aerial photographs appear to show the 1967 ABC 2 has survived.

terry on July 8, 2015 at 6:36 am

Photo uploaded of Gerald Shaw at the Compton organ; he was later to become the resident organist of the Odeon Leicester Square.

DavidSimpson on December 1, 2013 at 2:34 pm

My scanned photographs were taken in December 1998, when the cinema was fully open.