We ♥ our building


A great picture of the original Grosvenor cinema in my old stomping ground in Glasgow. There’s still a cinema on this site, but it’s a ghost of its former self. Nearby was The Grosvenor Cafe, an old Italian greasy spoon where you could get a cup of tea with a digestive biscuit. Belle & Sebastian formed there and Donald Dewer was a regular (him and a million students). When it changed hands 12 years ago, it was moved into the cinema opposite, its charming old booths dumped in the skip – except for one, allegedly rescued by B&S’s Stuart Murdoch. All of which is to say I’m on about lost buildings again. Head to Completely London to read about a few ongoing campaigns to rescue London landmarks – plus the story behind a Nunhead pub saved by a local campaigners.

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