Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, HAMILTON ROAD, TONIC CINEMA

Name: NEILL, JOHN MCBRIDE
Building: CO. DOWN, BANGOR, HAMILTON ROAD, TONIC CINEMA
Date: 1935-36
Nature: New cinema with shop & flats. For John H. O'Neill. 2nd largest cinema in Ireland at time of opening on 6 Jul 1936. Contractor: Sloan Bros., Belfast. Cost: £76,000. (Burnt down, 199102)
Refs: IB 76, 16 Jun 1934, 501; IB 77, 4 May,10 Aug,21 Sep,19 Oct 1935, 362,715,878,946; 79, 27 Nov 1937, 1034; Northern Whig and Belfast Post, 7 Jul 1936; David Evans, An Introduction to Modern Ulster Architecture (UAHS, 1977), 5(illus.); Paul Larmour, 'The Big Feature', Perspective Vol. 5, No. 4 (Mar-Apr 1997), 27-28(illus.),29-30(illus.); Marcus Patton, Bangor: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1999), 97,99(illus.)