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Seating capacity: 1,131

Address: 50A, Bowring Street, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.  While this may be the official address, please note that Google Maps places the theatre at the southwest corner of Bowring-Shanghai intersection.  Fortunately, other references in the sources listed below, particularly the two photos in flickr.com, confirm the true location on the southeast corner of Bowring-Kwun Chung intersection.

(Edit: May 10, 2017 Please note the term demolished refers to the date on which theatre operation ended.  Please also note comments below regarding its successor theatre at the same site.)

Seating capacity: 784

Address: 11-15 Fung Kwan Street, Yuen Long, Hong Kong.  Man Fung Building is the current occupant at the site.  Merryland Theatre [1984-2002], another retired theatre, was located across the lane from Union Theatre, at this site

Seating capaciy:  6 screens: 1-426, 2-449, A-570, B-494, C-476, D-452, Total 2,867.

Seating capacity: 5 screens; 425, 176, 216, 208, 123; total 1,148.

Address: Telford Gardens, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong.  A more specific address, likely no longer applicable, is in Chinese  九龍灣 德福花園 一期平台 P23號.

Information collected shows that UA Telford Theatre was closed on March 14, 2007.  The next theatre to operate at the site was Megabox and it was subsequently replaced by MCL Telford Cinema which continues to operate today.

Seating capacity: 4 screens;  454, 270, 366, 404; total 1,494.

Address: One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong.

UA Queensway Cinemas operated during the period March 22, 1989 - January 27, 2006.  Talk Cinema site has viewer feedbacks which can be informative. 

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Seating capacity: 1 screen, 642.  Address: 115-127 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long, Hong Kong, northeast corner of the intersection with Tung Lok Street.

Seating capacity: 2 screens, total 875.

Address: 2 Tuen Lung Street, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong.  Trend Plaza is the current occupant at the site.

Tuen Mun Theatre operated during the period September 8, 1988 - September 1, 2006.  In the Talk Cinema (listed below) site, one reader shares his/her impressions of the theatre and the changes to the place after the closing of the theatre. 

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Seating capacity: unknown.  Address: Castle Peak Road (Tsuen Wan), Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong.  Other information from the sources include the "intersection of Castle Peak Road and Chung On Road", and "now Town Square Carpark".  After a Google street walk, I estimated it to be the southeast corner of the intersection.

Tsuen Wan Theatre operated from December 3, 1950 until some time in the early 1970s.  For the purpose of this page, the closing date is estimated to be in 1972.

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Seating capacity: 1,086.

Address: Luk Yeung Sun Chuen, Sai Lau Kok Road, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, north side of Sai Lau Kok Road half way between Tai Ho Road North and Wai Tsuen Road.  A restaurant 美心皇宮酒樓 is the current occupant.

Triumph Theatre operated during the period January 27, 1984 - March 1, 1996.

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Seating capacity: 2 screens, 108 and 88, total 196.

Address: 6 Tonnochy Road, Kwan Chat Tower, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.  The former theatre's ground floor is now occupied by shops.

Tonnochy Theatre operated during the period December 18, 1993 - June 1994.  This is likely the shortest-lived theatre in my compilation.  After Tonnochy's closing, a mini theatre called Golden Status Adwards Theatre operated for a remaining part of 1994 only.

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