These stunning photos of lost Edinburgh cinemas hark back to the days when they were known as 'picture palaces'.
Back then, a trip to ‘the pictures' was a decidedly glamorous affair, with many beautiful buildings serving as chapels of the moving image.
The Capital’s Southside district and its surrounding area was packed with cinemas, and despite there being so many, there would be huge queues to get in.
Sadly, now there are none. Here Lisa Sibbald, the author of the book: Edinburgh’s Southside – History, People, Memories, takes us on a tour of the area’s lost film houses.
Take a look through our photo gallery to see 11 of Southside’s lost cinemas – and let us know in the comments section if you were lucky enough to visit any of them when they were still screening movies.

9. 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

10. The Roxburgh Picture House
Straddling Roxburgh Street and Drummond Street, this cinema opened in January 1920 and was generally known as The Roxy. It closed around 1931. Photo: Jayne Emsley

11. 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