In the eighties, up until closure, the Continental was well run by a young guy (and mother on tickets & ice creams) who showed stuff that wasn’t on in town, including a repertory evening on Tuesdays showing classic. We were in there every week. He had a great stash of old adverts and public information films from the 1960s which all got an airing. “How to raise a dog” was a good one. One evening, when the February temperature inside the cinema was colder than outside, he treated us to “Exploring in the Antarctic”, which seemed a little cruel at the time.
I do remember films being shown here after it closed as a cinema. In 1969 I saw Burt Lancaster in “The Train” here. I also remember walking down the Empire from Hamworthy Primary, as we had our school assemblies in there, not to mention the Christmas play.
In the eighties, up until closure, the Continental was well run by a young guy (and mother on tickets & ice creams) who showed stuff that wasn’t on in town, including a repertory evening on Tuesdays showing classic. We were in there every week. He had a great stash of old adverts and public information films from the 1960s which all got an airing. “How to raise a dog” was a good one. One evening, when the February temperature inside the cinema was colder than outside, he treated us to “Exploring in the Antarctic”, which seemed a little cruel at the time.
I do remember films being shown here after it closed as a cinema. In 1969 I saw Burt Lancaster in “The Train” here. I also remember walking down the Empire from Hamworthy Primary, as we had our school assemblies in there, not to mention the Christmas play.