Glen Cinema Disaster
(1929)

thing and disaster

Died aged 0

Commemorated on 2 plaques

Centenary Of Cinema 1996 #203

This was the Glen Cinema where the tragic deaths of so many children in Scotland's worst cinema disaster resulted in safer cinemas for future generations 31st December 1929

4 Dyers Wynd, Paisley, United Kingdom where it sited

The Glen Cinema. The Glen Cinema formed one section of the Good Templars' Building and was entered form Dyers' Wynd. On Hogmanay 1929, it was packed with children when smoke was seen in the projection room. In the ensuing panic 69 children lost their lives. they are commemorated by a monument in Hawkhead Cemetery

4 Dyers Wynd, Paisley, United Kingdom where it sited (1929)