i used to stand outside the essoldo selling the echo in the mid 50s. the matinees saturday morning were magic all the silver paper flying down when the organ came up priceless. what was the organists name it was uncle somebody.
Does anyone have any pictures of the foyer of the Ritz, with the staircase and the ticket booths and kiosk. My memory is a bit vague, but I seem to remember thick red carpeting and loads of mirrors. Also, it seemed to me as a little'un that you had a fair old walk to the actual auditorium, and I seem to remember walking past display cases. Is this right, or is my memory jumbled up?
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025
We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn
Seeing all those pictures of the old cinemas - especially the interiors - makes me think how grateful we should be to all those people who had the the presence of mind to make pictorial records of thes beautiful buildings in their hayday. At the time, they couldn't possibly have known how relatively short-lived these buildings would be. It's just a pity that these photos weren't in colour.
Also, it makes me despair how short-sighted the powers-that-be were to let these treasures be demolished or gutted so easily.
