I was living in Bromley Common in the mid-1950s. My parents ran a grocery store there which, because it had a billboard for the Gaumont outside the shop, gave us free tickets each week. I used them to good effect. However, I seem to remember two other cinemas in Bromley at the same time. One was certainly the Astor (it was called something else by then), but there was a third, near the Astor, and for the life of me I can’t think what it was called. I saw “The Vikings” (1958) there. Does anyone know the name of this cinema?
Interested to read about the Regal at Uxbridge. It was, if memory serves, one of three cinemas in the town back in the 1950s. One of the others was the Odeon at the end of Uxbridge nearest the canal. I was a regular there for Saturday Morning Pictures, and was greatly excited when on one such occasion the manager came out onstage to tell us all to go home after the show and let our parents know that Cinemascope had been installed.Does anyone know the name of the third cinema in Uxbridge at the time — and it was geographically? The Regal was I think in the centre of town.
I remember, as a child, seeing the George Cuckor/Judy Garland version of “A Star is Born” at The Coronation. We lived close by, on Dersingham Avenue. This would have been about 1956 I would say. I hated the film too and walked out, waiting in the foyer until my parents came out after the film had finished. I was probably about 12 at the time. Ten years later I was dragged to see a revival of the film at the NFT by a girlfriend, and it’s now in my top ten American films. How times change one.
I was living in Bromley Common in the mid-1950s. My parents ran a grocery store there which, because it had a billboard for the Gaumont outside the shop, gave us free tickets each week. I used them to good effect. However, I seem to remember two other cinemas in Bromley at the same time. One was certainly the Astor (it was called something else by then), but there was a third, near the Astor, and for the life of me I can’t think what it was called. I saw “The Vikings” (1958) there. Does anyone know the name of this cinema?
Interested to read about the Regal at Uxbridge. It was, if memory serves, one of three cinemas in the town back in the 1950s. One of the others was the Odeon at the end of Uxbridge nearest the canal. I was a regular there for Saturday Morning Pictures, and was greatly excited when on one such occasion the manager came out onstage to tell us all to go home after the show and let our parents know that Cinemascope had been installed.Does anyone know the name of the third cinema in Uxbridge at the time — and it was geographically? The Regal was I think in the centre of town.
I remember, as a child, seeing the George Cuckor/Judy Garland version of “A Star is Born” at The Coronation. We lived close by, on Dersingham Avenue. This would have been about 1956 I would say. I hated the film too and walked out, waiting in the foyer until my parents came out after the film had finished. I was probably about 12 at the time. Ten years later I was dragged to see a revival of the film at the NFT by a girlfriend, and it’s now in my top ten American films. How times change one.