Cinema
Market Street,
Ballycastle,
BT54
Market Street,
Ballycastle,
BT54
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Located in Ballycastle, County Antrim. The Cinema was opened prior to 1934. The 1940 Kine Year Book lists the Cinema as having 500 seats. The proscenuim was 20 feet wide. The seating capacity had reduced to 430-seats by 1944 and further reduced to 397-seats by 1953’s edition of K.Y.B. The very basic Cinema was purpose-built, and had a modest balcony. It was still open in 1966, but had closed by 1980. In September 2008 it was a motor repair garage.
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Frontage has been removed as you will see form this picture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbstewart/3766137973
Reduced to 430 seats in 1944 KYB.
First sighting of the Picture House was in the 1927 Kine Year Book (had no access to earlier editions). The proprietor was McAllister Picture Hall Company, manager F. Blair (no street address). This was repeated in 1928 except that the manager was E. J. Fogarty. In the 1933 Kine Year Book the Picture House name had gone and now it was the McAllister Hall (other details as previous).
The Kine Year Book 1935 (1934 not seen) introduced the New Cinema but carried no further details other than 400 seats - subsequent entries did not reveal a street address. There was no sign of the McAllister Hall in the 1935 edition or subsequently. By the 1937 edition A. C. Cinemas Ltd had taken over the Cinema (450 seats, then 500 seats in 1938). By 1939 the New in the name had been dropped so it was just Cinema; the new proprietor was E. F. McCambridge (430 seats but in 1940, 400 again). These entries continued more or less along the same lines until 1954 (no access to Kine Year Books after that). A. C. Cinemas also owned the Cinema (later Palladium) in Ballymoney.