But we wonder if you remember what the Grand Electric Cinema looked like in Ryhope before it moved.
But let’s not forget the journey it has undergone to get to its wonderful 2024 story.
Re-live it here in these Sunderland Echo photos from 2015 and 2018.
5. Before the transformation
The old Grand Electric Cinema as it looked in January 2018. | se
6. A browse in 2018
Staff from Beamish who took a look around the cinema in 2018. Pictured are Racheal Palmieri, Matthew Henderson, Nick Butterley and Geraldine Straker | se
7. Back at the picture house
Former projectionist Bill Mather was pictured outside the site of the cinema six years ago. | se
8. Flashback to 2018
Bill Mather and the team from Beamish inside the cinema. Have a look at the cinema before it went on the move. | se
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