Scala Cinema

terry on June 1, 2016 at 7:16 pm

Does the auditorium actually survive? I read some years ago that the Scala had been demolished; obviously the Front of House is extant as an Estate Agents.

I remember this cinema closing in the Summer of 1971 with a week of Disney classics including ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ and ‘In Search of the Castaways’. The reviewer in the ‘Northern Echo’ at the time commented: “The old Scala bows out with a week of Disney movies – what a pity that the children who go to see these won’t have a cinema any more”……

Herewith link to adverts for the Scala and sister cinemas, the Victoria Hall and the Wycliffe :–

http://teesdalemercuryarchive.org/pdf/1931/October-14/October-14-1931-09.pdf

http://teesdalemercuryarchive.org/pdf/1941/March-12/March-12-1941-05.pdf

http://teesdalemercuryarchive.org/pdf/1941/October-22/October-22-1941-04.pdf

http://teesdalemercuryarchive.org/pdf/1943/May-19/May-19-1943-04.pdf