B. B. Pictures
of 81 Dunlop Street, Glasgow
1907 Company established.
1910 The B. B. Pictures Limited, Wellington Palace, Commercial Road, Glasgow, was incorporated, with capital of £30,000, to carry on the business of cinematograph entertainers conducted in Glasgow, Dundee, Greenock, Coatbridge, Perth, and Airdrie, and the film-hiring business carried on from Wellington Palace, Glasgow.[1]
1914 Cinematograph exhibition proprietors, picture producers, film renters, electrical engineers and salesmen of every bioscope requisite. Twelve permanent picture shows in Scotland. [2]
1920 The company went into liquidation in order to allow the reconstruction of the business under a new company.[3] The B. B. Pictures (1920) Limited was incorporated, with capital of £200,000.[4]
1963 The company went into voluntary liquidation.[5]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Scotsman 8 October 1910
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13567/page/537
- ↑ The Scotsman 1 May 1920
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/18120/page/171
- National Records of Scotland BT2/7670
- National Records of Scotland BT2/1971/393