ONE of Scotland's oldest cinemas, on the Mull of Kintyre, has been awarded a £450,000 building repair grant from Historic Scotland.
The Campbeltown Picture House in Campeltown is one of eight historic sites receiving a share of £1.9 million in funding from Historic Scotland's building repair grants.
The money will be used to renovate and restore the cinema, which dates back to 1913 and is believed to be Scotland's oldest continually working cinema.
Jane Mayo, chairman of the Picture House, said: "We are absolutely thrilled because it's a very exciting project, but we need to raise a lot of money to do it and this is a wonderful first step to achieving that.
"The Picture House has long been in need of intense conservation work because of its age and the fact that there hasn't been much work done to it over the years. It now needs a lot of care and attention to ensure it has a sustainable future."
She added: "We are 100 miles from the nearest cinema so this really has been the only form of family entertainment for 100 miles.
"It has been run by the community for the last 25 years so it's a miracle we have managed to survive.
"We have launched a large fundraising campaign and this money is a big percentage of what we need to raise, but we need even more."
Ms Mayo added that the total project at the cinema – which also includes the installation of a new screen and the development of another building to be used as gallery space – was likely to cost an estimated £2.5m.
The other sites which are receiving funding from Historic Scotland for building repairs include: Sauche Tower in Clackmannanshire, Tomintoul Croft in Perthshire, Paisley Town Hall in Renfrewshire, Semple Park Cascades in Renfrewshire, Kelburn Castle in North Ayrshire, Cowane's Hospital in Stirling, and New Lanark in South Lanarkshire.
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