Globe Cinema
6A Salters Road,
Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE3 1DJ
6A Salters Road,
Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE3 1DJ
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: E.J. Hinge Circuit
Architects: George Bell, J.J. Hill
Functions: Restaurant
Previous Names: Globe Electric Theatre
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In the Gosforth district of Newcastle upon Tyne, the Globe Cinema opened in 1910. In 1939, according to ‘The Cinema Buyer’s Guide’, it had 883 seats.
The Kinematograph Year Books of 1940 and 1953 listed seating capacities of 746 and 739.
The Globe Cinema closed in 1961 and went over to bingo. More recently it became Poon’s Gosforth Palace, a Chinese restaurant. It was subsequently taken over by a new management team and is now (November 2015)known as Gosforth Palace.
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EXTERIOR
Built by a syndicate led by Joseph R. Collins, the architect was J. J. Hill. Original plans had a billiards hall in the basement with 8 tables, but these were later dropped from the final plans. The manager was fined in 1912 and 1913 for overcrowding. The Globe was taken over by Sidney Bamford in February 1915. General Theatres Corporation, who were to shortly be taken over by Gaumont, owned the cinema from December 1928, who introduced talkies from April 1930. Sold to the E. J. Hinge circuit in 1935 who already co-owned the Gosforth Cinema on the High Street, the cinema was redecorated in 1958. After closure as a cinema, the bingo operation lasted here until 1990.