Ayr will be left with yet another empty high street building due to the closing of the Odeon cinema on the 5th of June this year, due to the venue no longer being viable to run. It is the last purpose-built art deco cinema in Scotland, with only 6 other examples in Britain. Losing this cinema will not only be another blow to our dying high street, but to the architecture and history of film - having first opened in 1938 and being the first Odeon built in Scotland. With less than a month until closure, Ayr should do all it can to keep one of its last remaining high street attractions.