State Cinema, Ballymena

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photograph of the closed State Cinema was taken in November 1998-The State Cinema was opened on 2nd December 1935. It was independently operated. It was closed between 1978 and 1983. By 1991 it had been converted into a 2-screen cinema.The State Cinema was being operated by the Ward Anderson group of Empire Cinemas and it was closed on 30th July 1998, the day before their new 7-screen, IMC Cinema opened in the town.In 1999, proposals to convert the State Cinema into an arts centre to be known as the ‘Altered State’ were never carried out and in the Autumn of 2002, the building suffered a fire. It was demolished in late-2006. //