I too spent many happy hours in that very cinema, watching Flash Gordon, Old Mother Riley, and a host of other stuff. It was 6d for the morning’s entertainment as an “ABC Minor”. , and I’m sure my mother thought it was a shilling well spent to get my brother and I out of her hair for a while.
I too mourned when I discovered it was going to be demolished, for it was indeed a palace of the imagination. The last filmI saw there was a showing of Ben Hur shortly before it became rubble. So sad.
“We are the boys and girls all known as..
Minors of the ABC…
And every Saturday all line up…
To see the films we like and shout aloud with glee..
We like to laugh and have our sing-song…
Such a happy crowd are wee..eeeee
We’re all pals together…
We’re Minors of the ABC.”
I too spent many happy hours in that very cinema, watching Flash Gordon, Old Mother Riley, and a host of other stuff. It was 6d for the morning’s entertainment as an “ABC Minor”. , and I’m sure my mother thought it was a shilling well spent to get my brother and I out of her hair for a while.
I too mourned when I discovered it was going to be demolished, for it was indeed a palace of the imagination. The last filmI saw there was a showing of Ben Hur shortly before it became rubble. So sad.
“We are the boys and girls all known as.. Minors of the ABC… And every Saturday all line up… To see the films we like and shout aloud with glee.. We like to laugh and have our sing-song… Such a happy crowd are wee..eeeee We’re all pals together… We’re Minors of the ABC.”