Newcastle - Tyne Theatre & Opera House

Newcastle (officially Newcastle upon Tyne) developed around a Roman settlement called Pons Aelius. Later, being part of the kingdom of Northumbria, it was known as Monkchester. Conflicts with the Danes in 876 left the settlements along the River Tyne in ruins. Robert Curthose, oldest son of William the Conqueror, erected a wooden castle there in the year 1080 since then the town was known as New Castle. The wooden structure was replaced by a stone castle in 1087. After a rebellion against the Normans in 1088, the town was all but destroyed by Odo of Bayeux.Throughout the Middle Ages, Newcastle was England's northern fortress.

Tyne Theatre & Opera House was converted into a cinema in 1919 under the name of Stoll Picture Theatre.

Stoll Pictures, founded in 1918, was a British film production and distribution company of the silent era. During the early to mid-1920s it was the largest film company in Britain and one of the biggest in Europe.