Regent Cinema Redcar to be demolished.....

Just read the article in the Gazette and while the demolition will take place soon they have not even put out tenders for the rebuild yet. They won't happen until Autumn. Surely it would have been sensible to have that all in place ready to go. Hopefully it wont turn into the fiasco Redcar Baths was after it was knocked down. God knows how many years that was until we got the new baths.
 
It's great for Redcar and I like the look of the design too.
I agree, appears to be similar to the current one . Looks like they've done the best they can on a limited budget.
People need to use it though. A good picture house should help local businesses too.
 
My late Mam and Dad recalled seeing Larry Grayson there, in the 1950s I think; in those days he was called Billy Breen but they said the act was exactly the same, only his name had changed. Twenty years later he became a huge national star with it.

Apparently the Shut That Door thing came about when someone left a door open near the stage when he was performing and a howling wind blew through.

When in Redcar he had witnessed the Lifeboat launching and when he died in January 1995 he left a gift to Redcar RNLI which, appropriately enough, was used to buy a new set of main front doors for the boathouse.

Mike Neville also appeared at what was then the New Pavilion in rep in the 1950s, he used to tell about the dressing rooms flooding in a high spring tide and how he once found a fish in there.

I don’t suppose they will be able to but it would be great if they allowed escorted tours before it is demolished.

I hope the Kirkleatham Hall Museum gets a few fittings out of it as well, particularly the stage door that Grayson used to complain about.
Interesting that, would be nice to place some of the historical stuff in the new one if possible. Obviously they'll need to be an explanation of who some of these actors etc are. But with qr codes etc that's easily done.
In town places are the way to go. I hate the drive to places, the USA is full of them. They are soulless
 
Just before it closed I took my young daughter. Midway through the film water started p*ssing through the roof and soaked the woman in front. Very funny.
 
Just read the article in the Gazette and while the demolition will take place soon they have not even put out tenders for the rebuild yet. They won't happen until Autumn. Surely it would have been sensible to have that all in place ready to go. Hopefully it wont turn into the fiasco Redcar Baths was after it was knocked down. God knows how many years that was until we got the new baths.
 
Personally, I think it will be one of the best things to happen to Redcar.
If people really want to retain the fascia of the old cinema the could always petition the council to make it the starting point of a new horizontal pier.
The same one that the vast majority have always wanted for Redcar.

one thing is for certain many more would use it than the current vertical embarrassment.
 
Personally, I think it will be one of the best things to happen to Redcar.
If people really want to retain the fascia of the old cinema the could always petition the council to make it the starting point of a new horizontal pier.
The same one that the vast majority have always wanted for Redcar.

one thing is for certain many more would use it than the current vertical embarrassment.
I was back in redcar last August. It was a lovely warm night and we ended up having a few drinks in the bar in the pier. Didn't think it was cheap but it was a great location.
 
First cinema trip I can remember. I live near York now but would definitely go when back in the area.

Even though it makes no difference to the actual viewing experience there's just something about the cinema being right next to the sea that seems to make it a bit more special somehow.
 
First cinema trip I can remember. I live near York now but would definitely go when back in the area.

Even though it makes no difference to the actual viewing experience there's just something about the cinema being right next to the sea that seems to make it a bit more special somehow.
York has a great indy cinema, when I lived there used to go to it back when it was in the museum gardens. Current location etc is great
 
York has a great indy cinema, when I lived there used to go to it back when it was in the museum gardens. Current location etc is great

Yeah I know it. Not been but cinema trips are at a premium with a 3 and 1 year old. Even when we do get nights off the Mrs insists on activities where we can talk to each other!

Soon, hopefully.
 
Personally, I think it will be one of the best things to happen to Redcar.
If people really want to retain the fascia of the old cinema the could always petition the council to make it the starting point of a new horizontal pier.
The same one that the vast majority have always wanted for Redcar.

one thing is for certain many more would use it than the current vertical embarrassment.

Even the Redcar Pier campaign group eventually admitted, once they did the maths, that a new pier would never be economically viable which is why they disbanded.

Apart from that any new pier on the site of the old one would have meant penetrating the rocks for the foundations which would be impossible because the rocks are a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which means that drilling into them would be illegal and therefore would never get planning permission nor building regs approval. The alternative would have been to build on sand which would need massive foundations which would have made it even more expensive and therefore even more unviable.

Time to let that one go.
 
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First cinema trip I can remember. I live near York now but would definitely go when back in the area.

Even though it makes no difference to the actual viewing experience there's just something about the cinema being right next to the sea that seems to make it a bit more special somehow.
It also helped having the fire door on the beach so you could get your mate to let you all in when you were kids.
 
Yeah I know it. Not been but cinema trips are at a premium with a 3 and 1 year old. Even when we do get nights off the Mrs insists on activities where we can talk to each other!

Soon, hopefully.
She's still asking for that? Give it time:D
 
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