Yes they were great days. I started my cinematic career with Geoff Ward and finished up travelling the world because of it. Bill worked at the Star but his wife Joan worked with Geoff and I at the Crescent. It was like a little community with the usherettes Alice, Ann, Mary and Gertie. Something the multiplexes do not have today. A shame the picture above is not the Crescent in its hey day with Tony Dickinson as manager. I also liked doing relief at the Alexandra, it had such atmosphere being an old theatre.
The Projected Picture Trust have in their collection the two Zeis projectors that were installed in the cinema. Dion
Yes they were great days. I started my cinematic career with Geoff Ward and finished up travelling the world because of it. Bill worked at the Star but his wife Joan worked with Geoff and I at the Crescent. It was like a little community with the usherettes Alice, Ann, Mary and Gertie. Something the multiplexes do not have today. A shame the picture above is not the Crescent in its hey day with Tony Dickinson as manager. I also liked doing relief at the Alexandra, it had such atmosphere being an old theatre.
Dion