Lyric Cinema
Gordon Terrace,
Stakeford,
NE62 5UD
Gordon Terrace,
Stakeford,
NE62 5UD
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This cinema was located in the small Northumberland village of Stakeford, between Bedlington and Ashington.
Unfortunately, nothing is known about it aside from its name. (It was not listed in the Kinematograph Years Books for 1914, 1931, 1940 and 1953). The building is currently a sports and social welfare centre, with “Stakeford and Bomarsund War Memorial Hall” on the frontage; whether the Lyric Cinema moved into the existing hall, or whether the former cinema was transformed into the hall is not known.
An interesting postscript is that films returned to the hall on Tuesday 6th November 2007 with a one-off screening of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” by Northumberland mobile cinema project Doorstep Pictures. That was followed by “Hairspray” in February 2008. It is not known whether any further screenings have taken place.
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David Simpson
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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.