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• At 2010.09.24 01:07, Peter said:

  My favourite suburban cinema in the whole of newcastle, the ‘Jesmond Picture House’, was demolished in October last year.

  The “Jessy” as I used to call it, is a big miss.

  I got a company who owns, runs and re-furbishes old cinemas involved, but in the end they said they were concentrating their effort and resources on ‘the london area’, so they could not save it.

  I have some good links to photos and newspaper articles (etc) on the Newcastle Forum of ‘SkyscraperCity’ about all this, but I don’t think I should attach them, as my post often gets stuck in the ’spam-filter’ if I try to!

  The Jessy is a big miss though . . .

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• At 2010.09.24 22:27, Beth said:

  of course you’re right peter! (and i’m glad to see you’re still reading!)

  please do feel free to post links here - i always approve them as soon as i see them but as i’m usually at work during the day i can’t during office hours :)

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• At 2010.09.25 18:17, Peter said:

  Thanks beth,

  Here is the link to the ‘SkyscraperCity’ Project Thread, for the re-development of the Jesmond Cinema . . .

  http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=981960

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• At 2010.09.27 19:27, Beth said:

  Thanks for that Peter - the building they want to build there looks AWFUL! I hope it looks better when it’s actually up…

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