Colourful campaign seeks to save historic picture house

ONE of Cork’s great old cinemas is set to get a psychedelic facelift as part of a campaign to save it from dereliction.

The Lido Picture House in Blackpool, which opened in 1931, will be covered in multi-coloured cubes as part of the initiative, which hopes to find a new community use for it.

The Lido on Watercourse Road on the city’s northside opened in 1931 and became a much-loved venue during the city’s golden age of cinema.