Hi there,I remember the Star cinema very well, when I was in the Erdington cottage homes,if you elected to go to the "pictures"(instead of having pocket money,) we had to queue in a seperate line from the other children
Don't know if this has been asked before, but was the Star on Slade road, the only cinema in brum with no upstairs, I can rememember it was only 4d for the saturday matinee, whereas most of the others cost a tanner.
It must be hard to envisage nowadays, especially for youngsters, that in the mid 1940s, there were 84 cinemas listed in Birmingham alone, I bet there's not many on this list still standing!View attachment 45227