Visits to various picture houses in the area with family and friends

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

Employment in the Picture Houses

The cinema became a place of respectable employment and offered roles to both men and women

The Queens Picture House South Road Waterloo

The Queens Picture House – The first purpose built cinema in Waterloo

Children’s Cinema shows and Matinees

Children’s Cinema shows and matinees hoped to develop young cinema goers into life long film and cinema fans

To be continued…The Serial at the cinema

Cinemas would show episodes of a serial each week which would be left on a cliff hanger, this was a way of having regular cinema patrons return each week

Architectural Cinema Plans

Photographs of architectural plans for some of the local Picture Houses