Many children would leave the cinema slapping their thighs and pretending to be cowboys like their favorite action hero’s. They would also use their coats as a capes, pretending to fly like batman, reliving what they had just watched on the screen.

The songs and musicals would be enacted around the streets when the young people left the cinema.

“Our street gang used to go to the REGAL for the ABC Minors, and we sang our heart out….”we are the boys and girls well known as, the members of the…..” after the song was finished we got into the feature film and every baddie on screen we BOOOOOOED and every goodie it was YEEEEEAAAAAHHHH…..we were a noisy bunch…..it was dark inside that when we came out to the light of day we were blinded by the light…..but we became Cowboys and Indians once we hit the streets home….ha”

Pam in Indiana USA 
Keegan, Carruthers, Rigg, Copland, Lobb, Hough, Mee 
born in Bootle later lived in Netherton