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DOES ANY ONE REMEMBER THE WORDS TO THE SONG WHICH WAS SUNG AT THE SATURDAY CLUB AT THE ODEON ON SATURDAY MORNINGS. IT STARTED " WE COME ALONG ON SATURDAY MORNING" WHEN WE HAD THE THREE CORNERED LOLLIES AT 3d EACH.

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Oh Can I Just Add, I Would Like The Official Words Not The Ones The Lads At The Back Sang !!!!!!!!!

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You mean this place?

Photo by Jambutty

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there is a thread somewhere with all the words to the song, fireman.

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Is this it?


We come along on Saturday morning,
Greeting everybody with a smile,
We come along on Saturday morning,
Knowing it's well worthwhile,
As members of the Odeon club,
We all intend to be,
Good citizens when we grow up,
And champions of the free,
We come along on Saturday morning,
Greeting everybody with a smile, smile, smile,
Greeting everybody with a smile

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woah

where's that pic from/?

where did it used to be???

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Woolworth and M&S etc are now where those sunken gardens used to be.

I remember singing that Odeon club song and "following the bouncing ball" aaah happy days. :)

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"Good citizens when we grow up,
And champions of the free!"

I think that they should make this song compulsory in all of the borough's schools. That and the introduction of public flogging for minor offences. I am getting to the far end with all this namby-pamby "can't be named for legal reasons" Horse Sh*t! I think that juvenile delinquents should be made to stand in front of the Market Hall for the whole day on a Saturday with a placard of their misdeeds hung around their necks.

Can you imagine it? being forced to stand there with a sign around your neck which read something like "I was bored. so I beat up and robbed a pensioner" I wonder what the response of shoppers would be?

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thanks for that K.S.H. we have been trying to think of them for ages. Yes they were happy days and wasn't broadway beautiful.

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Great photographs,good to see the coppice without all the trees.

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why cant our new local cinema bring back the saturday club and make it affordable for all the kids. it would utilise the cinema and give the youngsters an interest, and, maybe they could be taught the song, possibly making them think about becoming good citizens and champions of the free.

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:D Bloody hell fireman its way b4 my time ...tehehehe:rolleyes:

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well you could be the first member of the NEW SATURDAY CLUB.....

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Hey im not that young LOL i did go to the odeon b4 it got demolished in my teens n last film i saw there was Batman :o

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You mean to say you never saw PATHE NEWS and cheered when the lone ranger and the cisco kid came on.

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you mean to say that you never watched PATHE NEWS, or cheered when the cisco kid came on.........

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:rolleyes: Nope i dont remember that

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When did the flicks in the town centre close?

I remember that Monday night was half price night, in the early eighties. One Tuesday morning, half of Moorhead were wandering round uttering the phrase, "He's not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy!" 'cos it seemed that half of the schol was crammed in there to watch The Life of Brian. :D

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Sparky........... " I'll have 3 pointed stones..........and a bag of gravel for the kid " :)

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I think it closed down about 1988-89 officially b4 knocked down, if u know when Batman was released at cinema then that was the last month, i remeber going cos i knew it was gonna be demolished shortly

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Don't let's get into a quoting war, Simon, or I'll be rummaging round in the loft, seeking out my VHS copy of LoB. :D

What you quote there is without doubt the funniest scene from the film. The part that John Cleese plays as the officious Stoning Officer was pure class.

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The door on the left side of the cinema led upstairs to the PICKWICK restaurant which i think opened after the cinema closed. I remember going in there one night with some friends, the waitress put a gravy boat at the end of the table after she had served our steaks i poured everyone some gravy out only to discover that the gravy boat contained vineger, the lighting was very subdued. When we complained we were told that if you had been regulars you would have known we always serve vineger in a gravy boat. We asked for a refund for our spoiled meal and were escorted off the premises by a police man with a very large dog. (WE DID NOT BECOME REGULARS) instead we finished our nights with a meal in the cafe at Barnes street chippy and it was very good.

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Photo was taken by a member called Jambutty (is he still on here, not seen him on for a while)

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flipin' eck

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i agree its even more of a mess now than before the old market was demolished i now hate the town centre.

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I remember it well......aaah. And the sunken gardens......well before woolies and M&S were built on the site........the Odeon that I remember was well before the Pickwick days. There were quite a few picture places..... let me think. Ritz, Prince's, Empire, Palace, Kings Hall(otherwise known as the bug hut)......I'm sure if I have missed any you'll remind me.

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knowlmere street (the arcs or arts) joe morts con club and youth clubs like st. augustines in huncoat

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Oh......I was just mentioning the picture houses. I never, ever went to Knowlmere St or Joe Morts.....my mother said he would rip my arm out and beat me with the soggy end if she found out i had been to those places......don't quite know why.
I had a really miserable social life!!!!!!!

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never went tojoe morts it was all fighting their did you read the early part of this thread re saturday morning club at the odeon

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Yes..... and I could remember the words of the song, but someone beat me to it!

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Loved the pictures of Broadway from when I was a kid and I'm proud to say I did remember all the words to the song Happy days Pam

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Well Pam, don't know about you..... but the Saturday club was the highlight of my week.....must've sung that ditty hundreds of times.
If I was ever to be punished for anything it was by not being allowed to go to the Saturday Club!

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i had the same if i was being punished severely , no saturday club.just a mild one would be no three cornered lolly

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Hello there

I'm new to this site and was delighted to see the pictures of the old Odeon looking just like I remember it. I used to catch the 46 (I think) Blackburn bus at a stop next to the gardens, to go home to West End, a long time ago.

I have relatives still living in Blackburn but none left in Accrington or Oswaldtwistle now so I haven't seen Accrington for at least 10 years. I had no idea that Woolworths had "moved".

The pictures bring back many memories.

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That would be when Broadway had a definite function.......I could happily see it go back to that. I'm sure it would regenerate the centre a bit.

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The Blackburn bus stop was on Union Street,did the Huncoat bus stop leave from
St,James Steet,outside the libary,one used to go up Avenue Parade,and the other up
Burnley Road.

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I only ever remember catching the Huncoat bus in Broadway. It was a loooooong time ago.

Do you remember the Burnley bus stop was outside Melbourne House?

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melbourne street was the ribble bus station you could go to bunley,padiham,manchester,leeds/bradford,whalley,or wherever and have a milkshake or summat in the melbo.