Cinema

In Crieff, Perth & Kinross, the New Crieff Cinema was built in 1924, with 650 seats, for Strathearn Cinema Company. It was owned by entrepreneur Peter Crerar, who ran a coach builders and operated a steamer on Loch Earn (that had been hauled by steam tractor from Perth).

Local legend has it that the new building was originally intended to be a garage. However, Peter Crerar became convinced that cinemas were the thing of the future, so he rushed up and stopped the men on the job, telling him they were now to build his new cinema!

The Cinema was equipped with a British Thomson-Houston(BTH) sound system and it had a 19ft wide proscenium. By 1940 the Cinema had been acquired by Caledonian Associated Cinemas Ltd. By then there were 650 seats (which had reduced to 612 by 1953).

The Cinema was still operating in 1980 (by then with 436 seats). It is not known when the Cinema closed, but the building subsequently became a bingo club.

More recently, it became home to Roxy Café.

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