Opened in December 1911 and the first cinema designed by the great James McKissack, the Eglinton Electreum was squeezed into a conversion of three shops underneath a tenement block at 25 Eglinton Street, Laurieston, just across the river from the city centre and close to The Coliseum and The Bedford.

A centre door with pay-boxes on either side led to stairs and a long, narrow auditorium fitted with benches and tip-up seats, priced in 1913 at 3d to 6d. The stage and screen were just inside the entrance, with the operator's box, nitrate film store and emergency exits at the far end.

Silent film highlights from June 1916 included Sunshine and Shadows starring "The Cuddly Kid" Baby Marie Osbourne, whose previous film Little Mary Sunshine was such a success that the Electreum management "felt fully justified in showing this latest picture", also screening that month was Romeo and Juliet, in six parts, at the time the most expensive film shown at the Electreum. The local children were catered for too, with "special pictures for the bairns"

25 Eglinton Street, Laurieston

Opened: December 14th 1911
Closed: May 1955

Designed by: James McKissack

Number of screens: 1
Number of seats: 541

Programmes ran continuously from 6.45 on weekdays and 2.30 on Saturdays although the management reserved the right to commence the show earlier than the published times if the weather was wet.

Never a glamorous or historically important cinema, the Electreum did provide the local community with " Educative, Elegant and Edifying" entertainment in a degree of comfort at a time when many people lived in poor housing prevalent in the area, although given its structure and limited exits, the Electreum probably wasn't the safest cinema in Glasgow!

The Eglinton Electreum closed in 1955.