North Road, Boldon Electric Palace

HER Number

9605

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

North Road, Boldon Electric Palace

Place

Boldon Colliery

Map Sheet

NZ36SW

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Cinema

Site Type: Specific

Cinema

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

A 400 seat cinema which opened in 1913. It was managed by a Mr Gilbert for twelve years. There were two cinemas in Boldon until 1930. The other was Tim Ward's Star Cinema. In 1933 the first "talkies" were shown. Five years later the Allom family took over the Electric Palace until it closed in 1959. It reopened as a bingo hall.

Easting

434580

Northing

561640

Grid Reference

NZ434580561640

Sources

Tyne and Wear Specialist Conservation Team, March 1992, Other Buildings of Acknowledged Architectural Quality or Historic Significance (South Tyneside UDP Appendix ENV (B)); S. Reeder, 2000, The Boldons in Old Picture Postcards; SOUTH TYNESIDE LOCAL LIST REVIEW 2011, LSHA/115/B