Pavilion Cinema
127 Westgate Road,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 4AG
127 Westgate Road,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 4AG
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1960 photo of the auditorium (taken immediately prior to the first modernisation) uploaded to the relevant section.
The Pavilion was not a roadshow house following its early 1961 refurbishment (it was closed from January 8th until Monday January 30th when it reopened with a special evening show of The World of Suzie Wong, regular show began the next day). For the next two and a bit years the Pavilion was a weekly change house with an occasional longer run. An attempt at a roadshow presentation of Judgement at Nuremberg had to be aborted after two weeks in January 1962 due to poor business (it was replaced with a quickly cobbled together double bill of Pillow Talk and Doctor at Large). The Pavilion became a roadshow house when it took over Lawrence of Arabia from the Queens Hall on May 26th 1963, having been equipped for 70mm. Curiously the Queens carried on with three weeks of run of the mill 35mm films until closing for the Cinerama conversion.
In the 60s and 70s the Pavilion was equipped with 70mm Vic 10 projectors and stereo surround sound. The projection room was now at the back of the circle. In 1975 Not long before it closed the Pavilion had the uk premiere of the film “Slade in Flame” with the group Slade present at the premiere. I remember watching a few Bond films at the Pavilion when I was a child and queuing along Westgate Road to get in. I distinctly remember the orangey coloured seats.
A 1984 view – closed and derelict:–
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stagedoor/137513838/
The exterior of the Pavilion Theatre in around 1916:
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The auditorium of the Pavilion Theatre shortly after opening in 1903:
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Vintage photographs of the Pavilion Cinema:
In July 1949, playing the Odeon release:
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/newcastlep4.jpg
In March 1956, playing the Odeon release:
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/newcastlep3.jpg
Two photographs from 1967 as a ‘Roadshow’ house:
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/newcastlep2.jpg
http://www.mawgrim.co.uk/cavalcade/newcastlep.jpg