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Centre Gardens and Hall

Reg Claybrook remembers on Facebook’s Memories of Willagee - Reference the picture theatre in Milroy Street near Willagee Primary School. (the hall attached to Ken Booth’s Centre Picture Gardens) I remember it very well in the early Sixties. When walking to school, me living in Kirby Street I would walk up Kirby and down to Milroy Street. I used to walk past it every day. In those days there was a billboard showing what the next movie which was in the corner of the yard on the Harfoot Street end. Also on that end was a small building that had stairs to go up to the projector room.

From memory it only opened on a Saturday afternoon during summer. I recall inside it has black floor length curtains. People would hiss at anybody who opened a curtain as it was daylight outside. I think other than the Saturday it was a convent school during the week?

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