norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
Hi Eddie, thanks for the memories regarding the Piccadilly Cinema on Stratford Rd.
Regarding the pictures of those coming attractions I remember that often they were in glorious Technicolor but the actual movie was in black and white and this maybe the start of my distrust of the advertising industry.
My other memory is of standing in the queue that went way the corner and when you finally got to the front it was a case of "Standing Room Only".
Cheers Tim.
Hi Tim. To be honest I cannot recall the sugar bowl experience. My mother used to take me to afternoon tea dances above Burtons, the tailors, situated next door to the Piccadilly, around 1943, and that was when I first became interested in the drums. Sometimes, I would sneak out to look at the photographs on the Piccadilly forecourt.
I well remember the cinema queues. sometimes stretching around the back of the cinema, onto Poplar Road.
In the40s/50's, one could pay at the kiosk at any time during a performance, enter the cinema, find a seat, and sit there, watching the film, right through to the next performance, until the film reached the point where you first went in. If it was a good film, I would try to make the first evening house, and then sit through the whole thing again, for the second house.,
No TV in those days.
Eddie