“My father did shift work, so every third week we would all go to the pictures either to the Regent, Plaza or the Corona.

If it was the Corona we would have an early tea, rush from Brownmore Lane down Endbutt Lane through Coronation Park to get to the Corona Picture House, which was were the Co-op shop is now in College Road. The park would be closed when we went home so we walked the full length of College Road, Kingsway, Stuart Road and into Brownmore Lane: A long evening out.

Most Saturday afternoons I would go with school friends to the Stella in Seaforth, as the father of one of my friends was the manager and we would get in free.

Sometimes we would go to the Queens or the Winter Gardens picture houses; they were also known as the ‘Flea Pit’.

We always had to stand in queues to get into any picture house.

On Saturday mornings there was a club for children, I think it was 6 pence to get in.”

Cherie Bootle

“The Liverpool Echo would list over a 100 cinemas each night. I would travel all over Merseyside to watch certain films.

I lived in the Anfield area of Liverpool and would go to places such as Huyton to see ‘Top Hat’. Once I travelled to the Winter Gardens, Waterloo to see ‘Blue Skies’. One day I would be in a ‘flea pit’ like the Cabbage Hall, or the Everton Palace. The next day I would be in the Forum or the Odeon in London Road.”

Burt Hamblet