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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

The building once contained an ice rink, a casino, a dozen bars and a ballroom with an illuminated ceiling - the cinema is the only piece that survived. The O2 Academy Bristol at 1-2 Frogmore Street occupies the former ABC cinema of the New Bristol Centre, the vast Mecca entertainment complex opened on 17 November 1966. The conversion story runs through decline and revival: the cinema closed in 1997 after three decades of 70mm roadshow presentations, briefly became the superclub Rock in 1999, a...