Old Photograph Green's Playhouse Nethergate Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of Green's Playhouse on the Nethergate in Dundee, Scotland. Opening in 1936 in the Nethergate the huge and luxurious Art Deco styled Green`s Playhouse was designed by architect John Fairweather. It shared the same quality and finishings of the Queen Mary being built at Clydebank. Its stalls auditorium was regarded as being the largest in Europe and the total seating for 4,123 patrons was only 100 short of the Glasgow Green`s Playhouse total; the largest cinema ever built in Europe. John Fairweather was born on 5 February 1867, at 11 Franklin Terrace, Anderston, Glasgow , the son of John Fairweather, a farmer, draper and mercantile clerk in the wool trade from Alyth, and his wife Elizabeth Brown Fyfe who came from Leuchars in Fife. Fairweather was the architect of Green's Playhouse, which opened in Glasgow in 1927, and of the Edinburgh Playhouse which opened in 1927. Fairweather married Evelyn Ronaldson in 1906 and their son William John Fairweather, born in 1907, also became an architect, starting as an assistant to his father. He died on 13 January 1942, during the wartime blackout, crossing Cumbernauld Road in Stepps.



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