LEFT: A press advertisement announcing the opening of The Lyceum

was included and after conversion of the balcony to a 480 seat cinema The Lyceum continued to show films until 1981, since when it has been a full time bingo hall.

In January 2006, the Paulo family sold their bingo halls, including The Lyceum to the Gala Group for a reported £64 million, but just ten months later, in October 2006, Gala closed The Lyceum, stating that "the cost of developing the building was not financially viable".

The building is now boarded up awaiting re-development, possibly into the predictable luxury flats.

In some lesser cinemas, the quality of the seating varied from front to back stalls, not so at the magnificent Lyceum, all stalls seats were the same and all one price, either 6d in the evening or 4d in the afternoon. Circle and balcony seats were better still and offered extra "knee-room".

As well as offering patrons the best decor and comfort, The Lyceum was also at the forefront of technical innovation, being one of the first cinemas in Britain to offer the new Deaf Aid System, which used a combination of copper wires under the carpets and a small box and earphone to allow patrons with hearing difficulties to "tune in to the picture". It was even claimed of this early induction loop, that patrons could sit in the Lyceum Cafe across the road and listen to the soundtrack from there!

The 2,600 seat Lyceum was Govan's largest and grandest cinema with a reputation for a warm welcome and quality programming which helped it survive after its competitors had closed, even when it was finally sold to the Paulo family in 1974 for their bingo operation, local protest ensured that that the bingo licence was only granted on condition that a cinema element