Offer to salvage Futurist seats refused
The beautiful chandelier and 2,000 seats are being crushed under the bulldozer’s wheels as I write this letter.
Here at Saint Cecilia’s we wrote to the contractor to ask if we could have some of the seats to set up a nostalgia cinema for our clients, but were told it wasn’t possible. Apart from anything else, selling the contents could have generated some revenue.
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Hide AdInstead, the building is being torn down in full, unrestricted view of thousands of summer holidaymakers who are doubtless horrified that Scarborough has allowed one of the shining lights in its shop window to be extinguished in this way.
This amazing theatre was a part of Scarborough’s history. Both it and the people of Scarborough deserved much better.
Mike Padgham
Managing Director
Saint Cecilia’s Care Services Ltd
Eastway, Eastfield