The Plaza Cinema, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme

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Date:1943

Description:The Plaza Cinema, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme, showing 'Last of the Mohicans'. Before opening as a picture house in 1910 this building was the Newcastle and Pottery Theatre.Mr Beresford purchased the Cinema Theatre in 1930 and changed its name to The Plaza. It became The Roxy in 1946 and closed in 1957. T and was replaced by an office building. Watercolour signed by Gordon M. Forsythe and dated 1943.


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1890s
Theatre Royal, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Theatre Royal, Newcastle-under-Lyme

The Theatre Royal was built between 1787 and 1788. In 1910 the theatre became Newcastle's ...

1910s
Ashfield Wesleyan Mission, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Ashfield Wesleyan Mission, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme

1930s
Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme

A view of Nelson Place taken from Queen's Gardens. The Gardens, seen here in the ...

1950s
Roxy Cinema, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Roxy Cinema, Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme

This oil painting signed and dated by Don Dawson is dated 1958 and depicts Nelson ...

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Donor ref:PAC135-88 (22/22973)

Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme

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