PRESTWICK'S Broadway Cinema has been featured in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

The article has been written by Dani Garavelli, an award-winning freelance journalist from Prestwick, who through passion for the preservation of the Broadway chose to tell its story in Spring this year.

It highlights the work by Friends of the Broadway in winning funding to restore the famed art deco cinema and bring it back to its glory.

In April this year, the cinema was officially handed over to the community - exactly 89 years since it first opened its doors.

The Friends of the Broadway were given £328,060 from the Scottish Land Fund to buy the Main Street building at a much reduced price from former owners, restaurant operator Buzzworks.

Built in 1935, the Broadway is a surviving example of Scotland’s golden age of cinema.

Originally seating more than 1,000 people, large parts of the building remain unchanged and the projection room still appears as a time capsule, with reels and equipment in the same spot as when they were last used.

The last film at the Broadway was shown in 1976, and after that the building was put to many uses, including a leisure centre, amusement arcade, and squash courts.

But it's the Friends of the Broadway who will now restore the historic building to its original purpose.

A spokesperson for Friends of the Broadway said: "We would like to thank Dani immensely for her beautiful article, and the incredible levels of research, energy, and devotion shown to capturing the Broadway's history in such rich detail, including the life of our architect Alister Gladstone MacDonald."

The edition is on sale now.