Now there are sadly none, although there is some promise of the former New Victoria on Clerk Street, which is currently owned by the G1 Group, being reopened to include a cinema.
Southsider Lisa Sibbald, the author of a new book: Edinburgh’s Southside – History, People, Memories, takes us on a tour of the district's lost film houses.
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. The Classic/La Scala
Exterior of the Classic cinema in Nicolson Street Edinburgh. Opened in 1912 as La Scala, by March 1986 the Classic was showing mostly adult films and closed in 1987. Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
. The Cinema House
Situated on Nicolson Street, The Cinema House was in a long, low building in the back court of tenements next to the Royal College of Surgeons. It opened in 1903 as the North British Electric Theatre and closed as The Cinema House in 1930. Photo: ALBERT JORDAN
1. The Cinema House
Situated on Nicolson Street, The Cinema House was in a long, low building in the back court of tenements next to the Royal College of Surgeons. It opened in 1903 as the North British Electric Theatre and closed as The Cinema House in 1930. Photo: ALBERT JORDAN
2. New Victoria Cinema/Odeon
Opened i 1930 on the day Sean Connery was born, the New Victoria Cinema on Clerk Street is fondly recalled by Southsiders. In the 1960s it was renovated and renamed Odeon. The cinema has been closed since 2003 and its future remains uncertain. Photo: Unknown
3. Salisbury Picture House
"The Sally" on South Clerk Street opened in December 1925, in what had formerly been the Livingstone Missions Hall. It closed following a fire in 1943. Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
4. The Classic/La Scala
Exterior of the Classic cinema in Nicolson Street Edinburgh. Opened in 1912 as La Scala, by March 1986 the Classic was showing mostly adult films and closed in 1987. Photo: Alan Ledgerwood