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As cinemas go, it was a bit of a barn. By no stretch of the imagination did the Palladium Cinema in Paisley’s Weighhouse Close bear any comparison to the great London theatre that shared its name.
It opened in Paisley in 1919 in what had been St George’s Picture House; established in the former Free Church of St. George.
And unlike many of the historic pictures the Paisley Daily Express publishes in its Then & Now series – which bear quite a strong resemblance to what can be seen in the streets and lanes of the town today – there is no trace of the old cinema.
Weighhouse Close, on New Street at one end and High Street at the other, is an example of near-total erasure.
What was once a kind of alley, with all kinds of buildings, in addition to the old Palladium cinema, now stands a parking lot where the cinema once stood.
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The Palladium was one of the first cinemas to leave Paisley in the 1960s, and the Regal, La Scala, and eventually the Kelburne gave way to out-of-town multiplexes.
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