my Tyneside

Cinema Memories: Maureen Burrows

2008-05-18T08:10:00.000+01:00

Cinema Memories: Asit Maitra

2008-05-13T22:41:00.001+01:00

Cinema Memories: Dorothy Mayher

2008-05-13T21:50:00.001+01:00

Cinema Memories: Joyce Taylor

2008-05-12T09:06:00.003+01:00

In the latest of our Cinema Memories we hear from Joyce Taylor

Brenda Johnson

2008-05-05T10:27:00.001+01:00

Here's another one of the Cinema Memories, this time from Brenda Johnson

Cinema Memories

2008-05-05T09:33:00.001+01:00

Cinema Memories was digital storytelling project run in conjunction with the Tyneside Cinema. The stories have been available on DVD, but now you can watch them online.

Participants worked over five sessions to write their own personal cinema stories which were then recorded. Digital stories were created on computers with photographs and images taken from participants' personal memorabilia and photographs, and archives collected by the Tyneside Cinema. The resulting films are uniquely personal stories and reflections on cinema-going in the heyday of the silver screen

The Cinema Memories project forms part of the education and outreach activity linked to the re-development of the Tyneside Cinema, and is shown here as part of TC100

Watch the Cinema Memories

June Glasgow remembers her local cinema - and the rush to get out before the National Anthem was played!

Hoping to hear from you

2008-03-06T13:12:00.007Z

My Tyneside is a space for you to let us share your memories of cinema on Tyneside - and in the rest of the North East - and to look to its future. We hope to hear from you - drop us an email at memories@tyneside.org, upload your videos to YouTube and tag them 'mytyneside', or let us know where to link to.

In the Projection Room

2008-03-03T21:53:00.001Z

Life in the projection room at Gateshead Old Town Hall, our current home

Remember when...

2008-03-03T21:23:00.005Z

Things have changed a bit since the Cinema looked like this

Although the auditorium hasn't changed that much over the years

But if you remember these days - or even if you only go back as far as our bright neon sign let us know what you think of the Tyneside.

Tell us your memories of Tyneside Cinema

2008-03-03T20:41:00.003Z

One of the most important cinemas in Newcastle is Tyneside Cinema. It opened as the ‘Bijou News-Reel Cinema’ on 1st February 1937 and was opened by the then Lord Mayor Alderman Grantham J.P. One of three news theatres that opened in the city that year, the initial proposal was for it to be built close to the Central Station, but the plan fell through when the North Eastern Railway could not be persuaded.

The News Theatre, as it was known generally, stands at the North Eastern edge of a site occupied as early as 1267 by Franciscans, or Grey Friars. The next building to stand on the site was the ‘Newe House’, a mansion used by General Leven during the English Civil War as his headquarters. It was in the Newe House that Charles I was held for 10 months until he was handed over to the Parliamentarians in 1647.

The present building in which the Tyneside Cinema stands is in fact called the Newe House to this very day, this name can be seen above the Pilgrim Street entrance to the building. The building was designed by George Bell of Dixon and Bell Ltd, and built by Thomas Clements and Sons Ltd.

Over the years thousands of people have passed through the doors, and we would like to hear your memories of time at the Tyneside. Send us your photographs or memoirs, or make a video and upload it to YouTube - we'd love to hear from you.