Coliseum Cinema

11 New Market,
Morpeth, NE61 1PS

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Lanceb
Lanceb on July 14, 2020 at 7:58 am

My gran starteed working here in 1976 as the assistant manager to charles picken. I remmber spending most of summer of 1980 up in the projection room helping to show films at the age of 8, happy memories. If i remember the projectionist of the time commmitted a robbery of the place a year later lol

DavidSimpson
DavidSimpson on November 12, 2015 at 5:51 am

In February 2000, when I visited the Coliseum to see “Inspector Gadget”, the cinema screen was sited the other side of the disco dance floor, viewed over the dance floor from a row of cinema seats. Film shows were held in the early evening, before the disco started! The cinema/disco was at first floor level, and there were no indications of the original cinema auditorium.

DavidSimpson
DavidSimpson on July 6, 2015 at 11:46 am

On 15 March 2011, J. D. Wetherspoon opened one of their pubs on the ground floor. “The Electrical Wizard” was named after Dr. Walford Bodie, a Scots-born entertainer, known as ‘The Electrical Wizard of the North’, who was famous for his ‘shocking’ magic tricks and the use of a replica electric chair!

CSWalczak
CSWalczak on September 25, 2012 at 5:43 pm

Another view of the theatre after it ceased operations as a cinema can be seen here.