Lyric Cinema
Gordon Terrace,
Stakeford,
NE62 5UD
Gordon Terrace,
Stakeford,
NE62 5UD
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The 1944 KYB has two cinemas located in Choppington, but both with an address of Slakeford, so may well be in the other KYB’s under that locaton. That said, the Memorial Cinema is listed as having an Electrocord sound system and 300 seats. The Lyric Cinema, Slakeford is all that gets a mention though, so maybe this was when the name was changed and is the same building?
There was a second cinema, missing from the list, called the Star Cinema.
I grew up in Stakeford in the 50s and 60s and was a regular there, especially at Kids' Matinees on Saturday Afternoons. The “Lyric” – although no-one called it that: everyone called it “The Fret”, the local word for sea-mist- wasn’t a purpose built cinema. The space was rented from the trustees of the War Memorial Hall which was opened in the 1920s and also contained sports facilities and a library. At that time, the manager was Jim Arkle, who lived in nearby Dereham Terrace. The Lyric closed as a cinema in the late 60s and the space is now used as a community facility and meeting-place.