Regal Cinema

I visited the Regal in 1968 when the manager, Dave Stewart, had just installed a festoon stage curtain which he had removed from the King’s, Montrose. It looked quite splendid in it’s new home. The projection room at the Regal was under the balcony at the rear of the stalls. The BTH projectors were angled slightly upwards rather than in the usual straight throw from a back stalls box. Up in the balcony there were chummy seats ( ie double seats with no central armrest ) which were much frequented by young couples. Outside on the front of the cinema the vertical Regal sign was in a style devised by J B Milne and which could be found at several of his cinemas including Auchterarder and Macduff.