IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Orr Street, GLASGOW, G40 2AJ

The former Olympia Variety Theatre is now home to Bridgeton Library, which along with books, computing facilities and displays relating to the building's history houses the BFI Mediatheque. A leaflet available on-site tells us that the Mediatheque's collection has "the best, the rarest and the most extraordinary films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive", free to watch when you log-in to your personal viewing station - everything from Victorian news stories and literary favourites such as 'Dracula' and '1984' through to black and white TV children's favourites like 'Muffin the Mule', to more-modern classics like 'Local Hero' and 'Shallow Grave', as well as comedy series including 'Rab C Nesbitt' and 'Absolutely'..... over 2,000 titles in total. Wow!

The recently renovated Olympia theatre building, now home to Bridgeton public library.

The auditorium was demolished in 2011, but the red sandstone part of the building was restored and preserved. It is Category B Listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33642 . This http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow/OlympiaTheatreOfVarietiesGlasgow.htm to the Arthur Lloyd web site provides the history of the theatre and photos of the renovation works.

An impressive building on London Road.

The building with the flag is Olympia House, the Orange Order of Scotland HQ http://www.orangeorderscotland.com/home.html . The white building on the left (Millers) has changed considerably since this photo was taken. See it in May 2014 Image

The auditorium was demolished in 2011, but the red sandstone part of the building was restored and preserved. This http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow/OlympiaTheatreOfVarietiesGlasgow.htm to the Arthur Lloyd web site provides the history of the theatre and photos of the renovation works. See the building in March 2013 here Image and in May of the same year Image

The auditorium was demolished in 2011, but the red sandstone part of the building was restored and preserved. It is now home to Bridgeton public library. This http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow/OlympiaTheatreOfVarietiesGlasgow.htm to the Arthur Lloyd web site provides the history of the theatre and photos of the renovation works. See the same scene udring restoration here Image

The auditorium was demolished in 2011, but the red sandstone part of the building was restored and preserved. It is Category B Listed http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33642 . This http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow/OlympiaTheatreOfVarietiesGlasgow.htm to the Arthur Lloyd web site provides the history of the theatre and photos of the renovation works. See the building over the geograph years... March 2012 Image March 2013 Image May 2013 Image November 2016 Image

Complete with ghost sign. Appears to be under renovation. The building was previously plastered and painted white with mock Tudor touches Image

On the right is the Category B listed Olympia [http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33642]. It originally opened in 1911 as the Olympia Theatre of Varieties and was later a cinema, then bingo hall, and finally a furniture warehouse. The majority of the building has since been demolished, with only the façade and corner of the original building retained. Behind that is space for mixed local community use of a public learning space, a centre of boxing excellence and 10,000 square feet of office space. The block of tenements and shops were the former Bridgeton Cross Station, built by the North British Railway in 1872, and are also Category B listed [http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33853].