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[jimmy c spark]

Anyone remember singing the song [ We are the boys and girls of the ABC minors ] or Mrs Prescot walking around with her stick ordering the children to behave

[tessmop]

I do for the simple reason a little short pants wearer threw pepper into our eyes just before the show started,he was swiftly marched out,the two of us were sat there with stinging watering eyes trying to watch the big screen.

[gilly]

Remember the badges ?pin about a foot long always stuck in you?OK bout inch long then!

[eddieguff]

LOL. I recall taking a mates sister's kids there in about 1978, or 1979 when we were 15 or 16, and they were 4 and 5. It was mayhem. This the cinema on North Road we are on about, yeah?

Edited by eddieguff, 11 December 2011 - 09:22 PM.

[non sibi sed omnibus]

remember the bouncing ball!!!used to fight to get on front row.couldnt wait till following week to see flash gordon escape yet again.

[Nanny Ogg]

The matinee always started with Pathe News, black and white, and all the kids were throwing things at each other LOL cost sixpence, too, if I remember right.

[tessmop]

Good memory Nanny Ogg it was sixpence to get in!

[non sibi sed omnibus]

PALLADIUM-going to matinee and as a smug kid was throwing up in the air 3d bit(to get in)and catching in mouth--OOPS swallowed it.

[SKYMAN]

does anyone remember Ernie Kirkman being on the door ,he was around 7ft tall,
wore the full uniform with the tassles on the shoulder,looked quite smart,and he got respect,

ps,Ernie lived, at the top of Elephant lane ,Thatto Heath,, talking late forties now,,,,,,,,,,

Edited by SKYMAN, 12 December 2011 - 05:15 PM.

[JFM]

Who else remembers getting in for three jam jars
(Parr Dog was only two)
And part of the fun was the twenty mile walk there and back from Parr. (well it seemed like twenty miles especially in the rain)
We also set off at about 10.00 am and made a great day of it
We also collected sterilised milk bottles / pop bottles etc to get the money back off them to go to the pictures
Enviromentally friendly was not invented in 2011
(But the old saying of "when you have nowt, you waste nowt" made sure of that)

I also remember Dougie Greenall of rugby fame having the Engine in Parr, his son young Dougie would pass me empty pop bottles under the pub back gate and I would take back to the little off licence bit at the front of the pub to collect the 3d bits and off we would go to the Cap to watch Flash Gorden etc. That is until his mam realised that my dad only bought abour two bottles of pop a year, "WALLOP" for him off his dad and Wallop of my mam for me.
Funny my mam was 4ft nothing and my dad 6ft 3" but it was mam who walloped us?

[jimmy c spark]

Anyone remember the cinema organs coming up with a fella playing alsorts of music the one at the Rivoli was fantastic happy days that sad to say will never be recaptured, When i was working i was delivering to a house in Wilsmlow the old fella who lived there had a full sized cinema organ in his house and boy could he play it but said he could never have it at full volume or it would bring the walls down lol

[the olden days]

We mainly went to the Scala in Ormskirk Street behind the Sefton Arms and I remember it having a little cut out section on the left hand side downstairs (like a little cave) with about a dozen seats and also upstairs where they had a row of double seats at the back for courting couples - I presume.

I also remember the Rivoli with the organ that came up out of the floor of the stage.

[Lowe House Boy]

This topic really brings back some happy memories of Saturday afternoons in the 50s.I was a regular from about 1955 - 1958 till I started to watch Saints every week home and away. It was ninepence to get in and one shilling if you went upstairs.
Flash Gordon was one of our favourites and Three Stooges,Laurel and Hardy,The Bowery Boys and of course any of the cartoons.
Of the main features my favourite of all time was Tobor The Great.It was about a robot built for space exploration. It was my favourite film as a boy.

[Alan]

Did you ever get in for nothing? It was simple. One of the gang would pay to go in and then immediately go and open the emergency exit into Duke Street to let the rest in

[jimmy c spark]

Watching cowboy films them riding my imaginary horse back down duke st to go home to oxford st always had to go for a wee up the little entry at the side of Whittiles butchers my nan would have give me slap if she had known that part lol