sentences:  It formerly had a ballroom, billiard room and restaurant but in 1978, it became a three screen cinema rather than having a single screen.As part of the ABC chain, the cinema was eventually absorbed by Odeon, in a merger undertaken by the private equity firm Cinven.With another Odeon nearby on Broadmead's Union Street, the decision was taken to close down and sell the Whiteladies in 2001 with a restrictive covenant forbidding its future use as a cinema.