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Chapter5 GoodTimes. By now things were shaping up and I had got a good staff and the business was on the increase, some of the films I can recall that we had queues around the building for were “GHOSTBUSTERS” I can remember that on the Saturday afternoon matinee, there were that many...

Chapter 4 A Devastating Episode. The Chief had really done a magnificent job getting the presentation and the plant and projection areas up to scratch, and things were ticking along nicely, but fate has the knack of creeping up on you and biting you on the bum. On one of the evening...

Chapter 3 A NEW BROOM With a new Chief Operator now on the strength and some new front of house staff I turned my attention to fine tuning the presentation, for a start the curtain and masking motors had only been fastened down with small rawl bolts and because they did not penetrate deep...

link to a further episode in my cinematic life entitled FURTHER CONFESSIONS ........ https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=11240&page=3

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Chapter 2 The Smallest Show On Earth The new owners of The Warwick found like a good many others in the trade at this time that it was hard to make a large old cinema profitable, so they decided to knock out the screen end and gut the entire building right back to the projection room wall...

HI All, as everyone appeared to enjoy the article CONFESSIONS OF A CINEMA EMPLOYEE I decided to put fingers to keyboard again and write another episode entitled FURTHER CONFESSIONS ....... (not very imaginative I know) so here goes with chapter one. Further Confessions Of ------ Chapter...

nice pics' Colin, I remember being taken on the roof garden when I was a nipper, and walking over the little bridges that were over the stream. Later on when I worked there most of it had been dismantled circa 1958 / 60 there were odd benches left and my girlfriend and I used to go up there in...

most cinema managers were very smart, a pic of me when I was manager Of the Warwick Cinema Acocks Green.

Mike, I think you may be thinking of Leslie Holderness who was one of the first Managers of the Odeon New Street (Paramount) and was a "friend" of Betty Petrucci who was an assistant Manageress for a number of years at New Street. Regards Chris

I think you will find that Boots the Chemist is on the site of the Picture Playhouse, it closed when the WARWICK SUPER CINEMA opened in Westley Road in 1929.

in the pic looking towards Dale End along High Street. I thought that the Beehive Warehouse which is in the distance was down towards the bottom of ALBERT STREET. ? or was there 2 branches ?

I think Frank Cozens was the Manager of THE GRAND not the owner

Hi Mayne -knott, sorry I did not actually work at the Transport Dept, but because of my job at The Central premises, and latterly at Halesowen Warehouse, I had a lot to do with the lads in the Transport Dept, Len Weston became Transport Manager when Horace Wooley retired, I used to know Barry...

Hi Vivienne14, I think you will find it is the other way around the SCALA was demolished with the modernisation of the city centre and the ODEON Queensway was was built at that time in its place.

ODEON Stratford Road Shirley

THE DANILO / ESSOLDO, / ABC, / ODEON,/ REEL, Quinton.

Perry Barr Odeon original frontage and then after modernisation

Odeon Queensway, Gaumont.