Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (& AGINCOURT AVE), APOLLO CINEMA

Name: NEILL, JOHN MCBRIDE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (& AGINCOURT AVE), APOLLO CINEMA
Date: 1933
Nature: Art Deco style. First purpose built talkie cinema in Belfast. For H.H. McVea (or Mrs Tina McVea?) Begun early 1933 and opened towards end of same year.
Refs: IB 75, 25 Feb,24 Mar,18 Nov 1933, 161,247,992; 77, 12 Jan 1935, 16 Paul Larmour, 'The Big Feature', Perspective Vol. 5, No. 4 (Mar-Apr 1997), 29,32(illus.)

Name: MCLEAN, THOMAS
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU ROAD (& AGINCOURT AVE), APOLLO CINEMA
Date: 1939
Nature: Adds.
Refs: IB 81, 25 Nov 1939, 967