Petition to Save Newcastle's Paramount Theatre

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M. Leaver - signed on 02/06/2003 at 14:44 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: UK



Chris Drummond - signed on 01/06/2003 at 13:14 GMT
Location: Whitehaven
Country: UK



clive brett - signed on 31/05/2003 at 00:05 GMT
Location: orpington
Country: uk
Comments: This is worth saving!



Mark Lamb - signed on 19/05/2003 at 22:47 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: England
Comments: There is a real gap in the preservation of buildings from the first third of the 20th Century in the City. Although not he prettiest from the outside, the number of small details in and out make it special. These have been lost in other situations e.g . The Royalty in Gosforth (have photos of demo;ition). Pilgrim Street really needs a lift - this could be the the spark - but needs to retain some historical identity. Facilities for dancing, skateing and music are limited - would seem perfect size for ballroom etc without ripping it apart.



Miss Lauri Frankenthal - signed on 18/05/2003 at 15:44 GMT
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Country: UK
Comments: Newcastle should be restored and not rebuilt! Its historical roots is what makes it such a community spirited city of the North.



Matt - signed on 17/05/2003 at 09:03 GMT
Location: Brighton
Country: UK



phillip marshall - signed on 29/04/2003 at 11:07 GMT
Location: tunbridge wells
Country: kent
Comments: dont let another go forever



Simon Sharp - signed on 25/04/2003 at 12:58 GMT
Location: Hull
Country: UK
Comments: It is clear from examples around the world that city/town centre cinemas provide a C21st century leisure use, a focal point for a community, a sustainable night out, a memory box and a stunning example of C20th architecture all in one building. They are often an anchor for the continued vitality of city centres. Sustainability and Vitality are key objectives of Government advice in PPGs 6 and 13 to name just two. Cases such as Clevedon and Walthamstow show it can be done...



adrian richfield - signed on 23/04/2003 at 18:21 GMT
Location: tiverton
Country: devon



jill - signed on 19/04/2003 at 20:26 GMT
Location: blyth
Country: uk



Davey Barcelo - signed on 13/04/2003 at 17:20 GMT
Location: London
Country: UK



sandra festa - signed on 12/04/2003 at 11:11 GMT
Location: n/c
Comments: always consult public first



Helen Arkwright - signed on 31/03/2003 at 16:22 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne



Louise Davies - signed on 30/03/2003 at 20:03 GMT
Location: Bristol



Kerry Elliott - signed on 25/03/2003 at 20:23 GMT
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Country: England
Comments: Please save this lovely building. I think that the Tyneside Cinema should move in there!



Mark Huskisson - signed on 23/03/2003 at 21:16 GMT
Location: Glasgow



Cassie Durham - signed on 23/03/2003 at 21:16 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne



Ingrid Fairfax - signed on 22/03/2003 at 17:57 GMT
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Country: UK



Pauline Megson - signed on 21/03/2003 at 10:38 GMT
Location: Edinburgh
Country: Scotland
Comments: There can be no good reason to destroy what is an important example of a culturally and architecturally significant building.



Antoine Tinnion - signed on 19/03/2003 at 21:52 GMT
Location: New York
Country: USA
Comments: Anyone who has ever lived in Newcastle upon Tyne knows that The Paramount Theatre (better known as the former Odean Cinema) is part of the very fabric of the city, without which Newcastle would be irreparably, irretrievably damaged. While we all welcome further development and regeneration of Newcastle, it must be done in a way consistent with the city's history and architecture, not in conflict. The destruction of the historic Virtorian Handyside Arcade was a huge error which is now too late to remedy. Let's not make the same mistake twice.



John Matthews - signed on 19/03/2003 at 16:27 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: England
Comments: As one of the founder members of the original preserve the paramount campaign, ( chairman of the Tyneside Committee of the Northumberland and Newcastle Society), I am so pleased that others in the city and throughout the country see the benfit of preserving this magnificant building. The lastest information regarding the importance of the theatres architects Verity and Beverley has been passed on to English Heritage hopefully to be submiited to the DCMS. We now know that the building has been sold to a developer called Newcastle Properties based in Bedfordshire. The Laeeting Agents are Lamb and Edge. We have had a letter of support from MP for Newcastle Central Jim Cousins regarding the situation. We feel that the decision to de-list was wrong and the case should be re-opened in the light of new information not made available to the DCMS by the former owners, Cinven. Unfortunately we have been unable to get support from Newcastle Council; Northern Arts; and the Newcastle Gateshead Initiative. We do have support ffrom English Heriatge;RIBA Cinema Thatre Association; North East Civic Trust; the Twentieth Century Society;RIBA; Verity and Beverley; Lords Putnam and Falkland and many others. What we need is national exposure and someone such as Ridley Scott to come to the rescue. Keep up the ggod work.



Gary Cordingley - signed on 11/03/2003 at 10:05 GMT
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Country: England
Comments: Don't let them destroy this lovely and important building.



jennifer phillipson - signed on 10/03/2003 at 13:07 GMT
Location: nwecastle upon tyne
Country: england



Gillian Cartwright - signed on 27/02/2003 at 19:41 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: England
Comments: Please save this building-It is part of my childhood and what Newcastle means to me



Greta Erikson - signed on 27/02/2003 at 10:59 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: Britain



R.Lightowlers - signed on 20/02/2003 at 19:14 GMT
Location: Newcastle



Dr Z Chrzanowska - signed on 20/02/2003 at 19:13 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne



karen scott - signed on 13/02/2003 at 12:33 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon tyne
Country: UK
Comments: This is a landmark in newcastle people's culture. It is an institution. Please retain it intact or restore it and find a new suitable use. let people continue to enjoy the fantastic interior spaces.



Christopher John Learwood - signed on 09/02/2003 at 17:18 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: United Kingdom
Comments: The Tyneside Theatre should move in there with Northern Film & Media etc



Colin Hawdon - signed on 06/02/2003 at 12:40 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK



Innokenti Dostoevski - signed on 05/02/2003 at 20:12 GMT
Location: Malvern
Country: UK
Comments: Although I have never been there I appreciate the need to protect such buildings.



Joe Cosgrove - signed on 05/02/2003 at 20:03 GMT
Location: Lancaster
Country: Lancashire
Comments: The cinema in my town shut down too...



danielle smith - signed on 03/02/2003 at 21:49 GMT
Location: newcastle upon tyne
Country: UK



Robin Finlay - signed on 03/02/2003 at 21:48 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: UK



Rosemary Bishop - signed on 03/02/2003 at 20:37 GMT
Location: Sydney
Country: Australia
Comments: Best wishes.



Tom Joyce - signed on 03/02/2003 at 13:29 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK



Steff Laugharne - signed on 01/02/2003 at 17:07 GMT
Location: Cambs
Country: UK



Christopher O'Neill - signed on 30/01/2003 at 17:20 GMT
Location: Rugby, WARKS
Country: UK
Comments: Sustainability advocates the recycling of old buildings. Listed buildings require to be retained. Newcastle has already fallen foul of hasty development and lost much of it's architecturally special streetscape (obviously a lot has also been retained).



Lachlan Atcliffe - signed on 29/01/2003 at 13:34 GMT
Location: Bristol
Country: United Kingdom
Comments: Bristol's Odeon was gutted and refitted as a wine bar...I'd hate to see another get "rebuilt" like that.



Catherine Hammond - signed on 28/01/2003 at 15:40 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK



Ruth O'Leary - signed on 28/01/2003 at 14:48 GMT
Location: Sunderland
Country: UK



Josh Hadley - signed on 28/01/2003 at 11:34 GMT
Location: Harrow
Country: England
Comments: It would be a tragic waste of a wonderful building to let this one go. Please reconsider


David Glover - signed on 27/01/2003 at 22:28 GMT
Location: Kettering
Country: UK



Steve Norman - signed on 27/01/2003 at 17:58 GMT
Location: East London
Country: UK



David Baker - signed on 27/01/2003 at 15:57 GMT
Location: St Andrews
Country: UK



Chris Porter - signed on 27/01/2003 at 11:44 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: England
Comments: i love this place



Ronan - signed on 27/01/2003 at 00:12 GMT
Location: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Comments: too often this has happened with Cinemas in dublin, it would be a shame to see this happen here.



Nik Piachaud - signed on 26/01/2003 at 22:46 GMT
Location: Oxford
Country: England



Thomas Mulvey - signed on 26/01/2003 at 21:54 GMT
Location: Ascot
Country: England



Joanne Lee - signed on 26/01/2003 at 20:46 GMT
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Country: England



150 signatures and counting...

Chris Perkins - signed on 26/01/2003 at 19:44 GMT
Location: Llandudno Junction
Country: UK



Michael Straight - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:48 GMT
Location: Margate
Country: UK



Matthew Duley - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:36 GMT
Location: Cleobury Mortimer
Country: UK



luke bailey - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:34 GMT
Location: newcastle upon tyne
Country: England



Emma Russell - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:28 GMT
Location: Aberdeen
Country: UK



Alan Clark - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:16 GMT
Location: Holytown
Country: Scotland
Comments: Cinema history and art shouldnt be just desolved.



James Carver - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:15 GMT
Location: Warminster
Country: England
Comments: My family live around Newcastle and it would be a shame to demolish another historic place in a great town



Will Watson - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:14 GMT
Location: Leeds
Country: UK
Comments: A great shame to see this old place go - I've been there many times and it looks downright stunning.



allan iceton - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:13 GMT
Location: co durham
Country: uk



Luke - signed on 26/01/2003 at 18:03 GMT
Location: Bishops Stortford
Country: England



Dan Baird - signed on 26/01/2003 at 17:18 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: England
Comments: i remember when i went to see xXx here not so long ago, a guy on his mobile talked all the way throught the movie



Jenny Williamson - signed on 26/01/2003 at 16:55 GMT
Location: Somerset
Country: England



Janek Truszkowski - signed on 26/01/2003 at 16:33 GMT
Location: Royston
Country: England



Jennifer Addley - signed on 26/01/2003 at 15:59 GMT
Location: Whitley Bay
Country: United Kingdom
Comments: I began work at Odeon Newcastle about 3 months before it closed down. I have gone over to the new site however it really isn't the same. I, and many of the other employees that worked at the old site, agree that the old Odeon had far more character than our big, new multiplex. I miss the old site terribly...I cannot imagine what it like for people who worked there for much longer than 3 months. It's a lovely old building that should not be destroyed and I would be pleased if I would be able to go back in there one day and see it in all it's glory.



Nikki Williams - signed on 26/01/2003 at 15:51 GMT
Location: London
Country: England
Comments: Too many items of historic interest, not just in Newcastle but around the whole country, are being destroyed. Save the Paramount Theatre as an example of how we should be preserving our heritage.



MR R. JEFFERIES - signed on 25/01/2003 at 10:27 GMT
Location: CHELMSFORD
Country: ESSEX CM2 9EN
Comments: BUILDINGS SUCH AS THIS REPRESENT AN INSIGHT INTO THE PAST .THE ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY OF THE CINEMAS OF THAT TIME SHOULD BE KEPT AND PRESERVED FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.TO MANY FINE CINEMAS HAVE AND ARE STILL BEING LOST.LETS MAKE SURE THAT AT LEAST WE TRY OUR BEST TO AT LEAST KEEP THOSE FEW REMAINING.



Paul Smith - signed on 24/01/2003 at 00:13 GMT
Location: Gateshead
Country: England
Comments: Replace the Mayfair!!



Fabian Breckels - signed on 22/01/2003 at 16:48 GMT
Location: Bristol
Country: England
Comments: Few operating cinemas (if any) have the sence of scale of this one. It deserves to be fully restored and it's loss would be a national disgrace, not just a loss for the people of Newcastle


Russell Garnett - signed on 22/01/2003 at 13:30 GMT
Location: Sunderland
Country: England
Comments: it looks nice



Adam Sandell - signed on 21/01/2003 at 17:36 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK



Maria Knacke - signed on 20/01/2003 at 21:23 GMT
Location: Germering
Country: Germany
Comments: I was sad to hear that the cinema that I went to quite regularly while working as a language assisstant has moved . It is a wonderful building that should be preserved - inside and outside!



jeanne moore - signed on 11/01/2003 at 16:28 GMT
Location: newcastle upon tyne
Country: UK



Graeme Oliver - signed on 10/01/2003 at 20:16 GMT
Location: Chester-le-Street
Country: U.K.
Comments: Why was it ever de-listed ?? It's a historic building.



Claire Blenkinsopp - signed on 10/01/2003 at 14:53 GMT
Location: Thirsk
Country: North Yorkshire



Antony O'Connor - signed on 09/01/2003 at 08:06 GMT
Location: North Shields
Country: Tyne and Wear
Comments: This building should be retained and re used as a music venue



Chris Parry - signed on 09/01/2003 at 02:58 GMT
Location: Appin
Country: Australia



jc.sanders - signed on 08/01/2003 at 21:48 GMT
Location: newcastle upon tyne
Comments: this building is so fantastic



Jill Chapman - signed on 07/01/2003 at 14:16 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK
Comments: I love this building and was very sad to see the Odeon move premises.



Rob Colling - signed on 06/01/2003 at 15:46 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK
Comments: It's a beautiful building inside and out, and could be a fantastic centrepiece for the city if it were preserved and reopened as an entertainment venue. Newcastle doesn't have enough mid-size multi-use entertainment venues, and "The Paramount Theatre" is even a nifty brand name with which to relaunch it. This is a real opportunity for developers and for the city, and listed status for the building would ensure that the opportunity is not lost.



Eilidh - signed on 03/01/2003 at 17:29 GMT
Location: Livingston, Scotland
Country: UK
Comments: I wish you the very best of luck saving the Paramount!!



John Ovens - signed on 30/12/2002 at 18:30 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Comments: A beautiful building that must not be destroyed



James Dickman - signed on 30/12/2002 at 11:39 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: England



Bill Richmond - signed on 27/12/2002 at 10:28 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK



Jessica Kilburn - signed on 26/12/2002 at 00:25 GMT
Location: Newcastle
Country: UK



Daniel Kane - signed on 23/12/2002 at 08:04 GMT
Location: Cramlington
Country: England



Shaun Kane - signed on 23/12/2002 at 08:04 GMT
Location: Cramlington
Country: England



Dave Kane - signed on 23/12/2002 at 08:03 GMT
Location: Cramlington
Country: England



Billie Kane - signed on 23/12/2002 at 08:02 GMT
Location: Cramlington
Country: England



Rosie Niven - signed on 22/12/2002 at 16:44 GMT
Location: London (ex-Gateshead)
Country: UK
Comments: Went to see the Lord of the Rings there last Christmas. It's sad that I cant't go and see a film there this Christmas. I was a regular visitor to the Odeon throughout my teenage years and will be sad to see it go. It has a bigger screen and auditorium than most of the other Tyneside cinemas and is certainly the best located.



Carol McGuigan - signed on 17/12/2002 at 18:51 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: ENGLAND
Comments: An atmospheric and culturally significant building - don't make another Handyside Arcade mistake Newcastle!!!!



Julian Burke - signed on 17/12/2002 at 14:56 GMT
Location: Cambridge
Country: UK
Comments: Gorgeous interior - should be listed



Denis Scadeng - signed on 14/12/2002 at 23:28 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK



michael armstrong - signed on 14/12/2002 at 13:18 GMT
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Country: UK



george heslop - signed on 13/12/2002 at 20:17 GMT
Location: jarrow



Anne Bromley - signed on 13/12/2002 at 18:48 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: UK
Comments: If it will help! But do they ever listen? Hope this is not another lost cause like The Mayfair.



David Fisher - signed on 11/12/2002 at 12:53 GMT
Location: Gateshead
Country: UK
Comments: Its a national treasure



Robert Purdie - signed on 10/12/2002 at 20:58 GMT
Location: Perth
Country: UK
Comments: Soulless planners and developers are tearing the heart out if what was - and could still be - a beautiful city. Return it to its former glory.



K.Pears - signed on 10/12/2002 at 13:43 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: U.K.



Sara Park - signed on 09/12/2002 at 14:10 GMT
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: U.K.
Comments: WHY?



Ndurie Abah - signed on 08/12/2002 at 20:49 GMT
Location: Aberdeen
Country: Scotland

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