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The Rex and the Rio cinemas in Newcastle wee regularly visited by me as a child growing up in Newcastle in the late 1950s.  According to a book in my possession called 'The Lost Empire' by Barry Blaize they closed in October 1971, the Rex re-opening in August 1972 but then closing 12 months later.  My husband says that the two cinemas had shared conveniences and they would go in one door after watching a film and come out in the other cinema and watch another film for free.  He said he and his pals were never caught.

I can remember the Roxy (originally the Plaza in Nelson Place before 1946) but don't remember going to it even though it was my nearest cinema as I grew up in Bow Street which was just off Barrack's road.  My husband (you may have gathered is quite a bit older than me) seems to think it was a flea pit and probably didn't show such good films.  Anyway, according to this same book it closed in 1957 and was demolished in 1963.

Hi All, I am new to this forum and have stumbled across you while searching for a photo of the old bus shelters that used to at the side of the entrance gates and used to be full of queues of waiting people for the buses.
Have enjoyed reading your memories.  I used to live in Whitmore Road and remember the Kennels Cottage catching fire around Christmas time probalby in the 1980s (I think we were watching Towering Inferno on the TV at the time!)  That's when it got rebuilt as it is today.  Previous tenants of the cottage now live in the house we lived in then.
We now live in Wales.
Sue