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nicks commented about ABC Ilford on May 8, 2015 at 4:23 am

Saturday morning pictures – c1956. We were “minors of the ABC” and there was a song called that, which we all sung before the films started. We had ABC badges. Strange that it wasn’t called ABC until 1962.

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nicks commented about Super Cinema on May 8, 2015 at 4:12 am

A couple of us kids used to climb into the ruins of the Super, around 56/57. Great, but spooky and unsafe place to play. The front end, foyer area, was intact, but dark and scary (for a 10 yo, anyway), but the back end at the stage was a ruin with superstructure hanging down precariously. There was some kind of heating passages under where the seating was, because we used crawl through them. I never knew until reading this that it was a V2. I just thought it was an ordinary bomb. That is history, for sure.
I just also read that the Hippodrome at Ilford Broadway was also ruined by a V2, but a month earlier. How many did they throw at us for two of them to hit so close – must only have been a quarter mile or so.