The History of the Broadway

July 1934: Architect Alister Gladstone MacDonald is commissioned to draw up plans for a new super cinema for Prestwick.
29th April 1935: The Broadway Cinema's grand-opening ceremony.
11th February 1940: Sir Harry Lauder visits the Broadway for a charity concert to raise funds for child evacuees.
1943: Bob Hope performs on the Broadway's stage to US Army soldiers, stationed at Prestwick.
5th August 1947: Hollywood actress Vivian Blaine visits to great fanfare, and mass crowds on Main Street.
1956: The Broadway receives projection upgrades for Cinemascope, with new projectors installed.
1961: The Broadway Bingo & Social Club is founded.
1966: The Broadway converts to full-time bingo.
23rd February 1976: The Broadway re-opens as a cinema.
20th November 1976: The Broadway closes, after a final screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
1981: The Broadway re-opens as the Broadway Leisure Centre, with an amusement arcade and squash courts.
2003: The renamed Prestwick Leisure Centre closes.
2012: Friends of the Broadway Prestwick is founded.
2024: The Broadway enters community ownership.