Regent Theatre

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Come late 1953, and I was staying on my uncle’s poultry farm at Maida Vale (that was before the powers that be designated that his land was in the flight path of the new airport) It was a beautiful country property on 12 acres that I loved to visit - Saturday night would come around and we would all jump into the back of Uncle Frank’s Bedford Ute, and chug along the highway to the big smoke, up the road in Guildford. The nearest theatre was The Regent which was screening Errol Flynn in “The Master of Ballantrae” - Oh happy days, little did I know that in 18 months I would be the Assistant Projectionist at that same theatre. Uncle Frank’s farm was compulsory acquired by the government, and the planes would fly over his empty paddocks for ever more - The photo on this page is how I will always remember “The Regent” A Picture Palace run by Bob Yelland, that in 1953 dominated the main street of Guildford - Contributed by Greg Lynch -