Birthday celebrations for The Cinema

In November 1995 a national newspaper reported that the re-opening of The Cinema in Newton Stewart had all the twists and turns of a Holywood movie script. “An uncompromising businessman playing hardball with an important piece of real estate, the people banding together to fulfil a dream and a whole series of false denouements. Yet when the lights dim and the celluloid starts to roll the dream will have become a reality. The Cinema is back in business.”