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I am very interested in cinema history and many early cinemas provided in the aftermath of the 1909 Kinematograph Act were either provided in "converted existing buildings" or cheap new purpose-built buildings. The latter were often built in corrugated iron, although sometimes this was disguised with a brick frontage housing the box office, foyer and sometimes the projection box. I wonder how many survive - I think they must be rare. The only one I have seen "in the flesh", or should I say, "in the tin", was this one at Castlederg in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Is it still there? |