The Balcony

The balcony held 375 of the cinema's 1,060 seat capacity. Today that would make the balcony alone larger than most multiplex screens across the country!
The balcony, or circle, was typically the more expensive, luxury section of a cinema auditorium. Patrons enjoyed comfier seating and a better view of the screen. When the Broadway opened in 1935, seats in the stalls were as little as six pence. The balcony cost you a whole extra shilling!
The Broadway's balcony was special for how its front edge almost reaches the proscenium arch. You can see today where its full curve would have continued and met in the middle, before a large section of the balcony
was removed to make way for squash court one. The walls feature an Art Deco stepped design.
Later, the seating and flooring was removed, revealing the extraordinary steel skeleton of the building, which has beams so impressive they could have been used in the Forth Rail Bridge!