The Oadby Cinema was a big part of my childhood. I saw so many movies there: Jaws, Lady and the Tramp, Pete’s Dragon, Star Wars, Superman I and II, National Lampoon’s Animal House, the Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Watership Down, Warlords of Atlantis, Crime Busters, The Jungle Book. And of course all those Saturday Morning shows with cartoons, Laurel and Hardy shorts and Children’s Film Foundation movies, where I always got shouted at for moving the barrier prohibiting us kids from front-seat paradise. (What ever was the purpose of that barrier?) And in the 1980s they turned the place into (of all things) a FUNERAL PARLOUR!!! Like the dead needed that place more than the living??? And no one apart from ME seemed to be outraged! It still drives me into a fit of Nebuchadnezzan rage every time I think about it!!
The Oadby Cinema was a big part of my childhood. I saw so many movies there: Jaws, Lady and the Tramp, Pete’s Dragon, Star Wars, Superman I and II, National Lampoon’s Animal House, the Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Watership Down, Warlords of Atlantis, Crime Busters, The Jungle Book. And of course all those Saturday Morning shows with cartoons, Laurel and Hardy shorts and Children’s Film Foundation movies, where I always got shouted at for moving the barrier prohibiting us kids from front-seat paradise. (What ever was the purpose of that barrier?) And in the 1980s they turned the place into (of all things) a FUNERAL PARLOUR!!! Like the dead needed that place more than the living??? And no one apart from ME seemed to be outraged! It still drives me into a fit of Nebuchadnezzan rage every time I think about it!!