cinemas

Green's Playhouse Cinemas In summer 2025, after prolonging a visit for a couple years after seeing @Speed 's efforts, myself and @DustySensorPhotography finally made the journey north targeting the remaining two Green's playhouse cinemas of the family of four built by architect John...

Originally built in the 1880's as the Victoria Hall, it became the Victoria cinema in the 1930’s. Sometime in the 1950’s the cinema came under the control of Guy Baker’s Paramount Pictures circuit. After his death in 1983 the Victoria Cinema was closed, it was then purchased by Bala council and...

What is now the village of Keszyca Lesna started life as a German barracks complex for the use the Wehrmacht with construction starting in 1929 with the grand opening in 1936 attended by Adolf Hitler. Over the course of the WW2 the barracks was home to an array of different regiments including...

Solo jaunts. How does this happen? Unreal. No other word is more suited to this situation than unreal. I've lived in Taiwan since November 2016, and lived in North District between March 2018 and November 2019. I always knew there was one derelict cinema very close to the train station, 10...

(as of 16/04/23) The Royalty Cinema in Birmingham is an abandoned and collapsed cinema in Harborne Birmingham. Originally opened in 1930, the cinema closed in 1963 before it reopened as a bingo club in 2010, where it remained open until 2012. The building suffered a minor fire in 2017, and a...

Solo jaunt. So as you know I have a map of derelict sites I have to do while I'm here in Taiwan, and it so happens to be that there is a cluster of cinemas located in Yunlin, central Taiwan. As one of Taiwan's ex-industrial areas, and now mostly vast farming land, back in the 1940s and up to...

Hi all! So just getting into the whole urbex scene fairly recently and as a film fanatic would love to see some abandoned theatres/cinemas. Does anybody know of any in/around the London/Essex/Brighton area, as my group and I don't really have the time or facilities to travel too far. Thanks!!

Greetings, Does anyone know of any abandoned Cinemas or Theatres in Staffordshire, West Midlands? I haven't seen any and thought i'd resort to asking the members of 28DL. Thanks

Those of you that have been around a while will remember about 5 or 6 years ago i made a bit of a 'thing' of going out and exploring as many of the UKs closed cinema and theatre buildings as i could. It was pretty successful (if i do say so myself). We had some mega explores and saw some really...