Ritz Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness

The Ritz (later known as the ABC, Astra and Apollo) was a cinema located at the junction of Abbey Road and Holker Street in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.

The building was designed in a typical Art Deco-style by architect firm Drury & Gomersall and constructed in 1936 on a previously undeveloped site.

[1] The building also contained a row of four retail shops at ground floor fronting Abbey Road in addition to a restaurant at one point.

In this period the cinema was completely refitted, adding two extra screens to the existing one.

Numerous proposals to conserve the building were presented, however a fire gutted the structure in the early 2000s scuppering any hope of redevelopment.