Glasgow's cinemas have been well documented over the years and most people are familiar with the names Cosmo, Lyceum and Coliseum. But what of the Capitol Sauchiehall Street, Odeon Partick or the ABC Hyndland? These and many others were the cinemas planned between 1910 and 1940 that never got off the drawing board - Glasgow's unbuilt cinemas.

Sauchiehall Street is Glasgow's cinema street with many of the great Glasgow cinemas such as the La Scala, Gaumont and Regal located here, but at least two other cinemas got to the planning stage. In 1935 Associated News Theatres proposed a newsreel cinema and in 1926, Glasgow showman AE Pickard, owner of the Panopticon and the Norwood, planned a new cinema on the corner of Sauchiehall St and West Nile St on a site now occupied by the 60s monstrosity of St. Andrew House.

The Capitol Picture Theatre, designed by H. Barnes of Anderston was to have been in the classical style, with Greek columns leading to a sloping roof topped with a statue. Unusually for British cinemas, the pay box was to have been located on the street, with mosaic paving leading to entrance doors on either side. Such was the attention to detail that even the rear of the building would have featured decoartive carving and painted brickwork.