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When I was a kid...I used to love going to the pictures.I used to go at least 3 times a week...Now in those days, Accy was well served with picture theatres....there was the Empire and the Princes next door to each other in Edgar st...the Princes was the one where I usually ended up behind a pole....grrrrrrrrr,cos I couldn,t afford to sit upstairs....then there was the Odeon.....where I recall queueing for 2 hrs to get in to see a performance of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness and ended up in the very front row craning my neck to see the film...my favourite was the Palace in Abbey street....but who can recall the picture theatre across the road lovingly referred to by the youngsters as....the bughut....seem to remember it had a double barelled name..can still remember the guy with the long pole going up the sides of the auditorium closing the shutters before the performance......in those days you were wise to pay extra and sit upstairs......threepence for downstairs.....sixpence for upstairs....cos the youngsters had the disgusting habit of spitting on the cattle below..:)
It was also interesting to note that this theatre frowned on ice creams at interval and had trays full of penny arrows and black sambos......oh happy days:rolleyes:

Tal

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[quote=talentedbutslow black sambos......oh happy days:rolleyes:

Tal[/quote]
OH SHOCK HORROR.........black sambos,,,,,you cant say that now,,,lol but they were great,, big black bubbles,i liked chix too..
We lived in Burnley,and there were a few cinemas that catered for kids ... Saturday morning at the Odeon...the Empress ie (bug and scratch)sat afternoons
stamping our feet at the baddies and cheering at the goodies...
bottles of pop with a straw, and 2oz of peardrops...
YES talentedbutslow ,they were happy days

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It was called the Kings hall...and it 2d to get in.....kids upstairs threw orange peel on those downstairs....my brothers used to get in via the fire exit if they had no money....and I don't know the finer details of how because I always paid!

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And do you remember the Ritz....? The programmes changed twice a week, and they often had the horror pics......I used to stand and look at the photos from the films, (which were in a glass case outside) on my way to Peel Park school.

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Anyone remember the Queens Hall in Church, later the Tudor? Ossy even had two cinemas, the Palladium and the Empire, with a change of programme twice a week.

Ah, but we didn't have the telly then ...

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I used to have to take my little brother to the Odeon in Accy every Saturday.

He was such a nuisance!

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Remember all the others mentioned Margaret, but not the Ritz ? which in my recollection was a ballroom just past the Bridge Pub. I went to Peel Park, and if here (converted later to ballroom) then you had a long walk :)

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There was a Ritz picture place as well as the ballroom (I think)...wasn't much interested in dancing but was interested in films.......and at the time I lived in the Woodnook area...so yes it was a fairly long walk. I used to meet my friend who lived at the pub just below the Ritz picture place.....her name was Susan Denwood......we used to walk to school together and I used to spend my bus fare on Majestic wafers at playtime:)

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I can't remember the name of the pub....it was on the opposite side of the street to the Bridge pub......and I think it was a Massey's pub......you know my memory isn't quite as good as I'd like it to be

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I remember the Ritz cinema, the Ritz "ballroom" was where (amongst other places) my dad played drums in the band (The Ritz Syncopated Orchestra, leader Sid Ashmead) in the late 1920s and early 30s. :) Not sure if the 2 places were connected.

I used to go to the Palladium every week with my mum in the pre-telly days and have memories of my dad taking me every Thursday for a few weeks to the Empire, Oswaldtwistle, to see the Superman series starring Kirk Something-or-other (not Douglas). Dad never went to the pictures as a rule - but he liked Superman.

Only went once to the Bug-hut, with my brother. He convinced me I had caught fleas when we came out (I hadn't, of course) and I really itched! :D

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I used to go to the Princess and Empire down Edgar St. Also to the Palladium in Ossy, but that was a real dump. I don't remember the Empire in Ossy, where was it? on Union Rd.

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The Empire Ossy was a bit lower down than the Palladium on the opposite side down a ginnell. It was better known as a dance place, I had some of my best times there in the late 50s early 60s. I remember going to the Ritz as a lad, it was on the brew coming off the street where the Pop Club is down Church St. The Bug Hut was over the Kings Hall snooker hall, I spent many a Saturday afternoon there cheering the "goodies" and booing the "badies". I think that,s where we watched Flash Gordon too, or maybe that was the Pallace. Most of the old picture places had a snogging area at the back, at least it was supposed to be for snogging!!!!!

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Wasn't there three in Ossy?

I seem to remember there was one next to the Conservative club, now demolished and the site of four houses.

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I can't remember one next to the Con club, though the Empire wasn't far away from there, but there was one on the street where Ryddings Park gates are at the top - it may have been called the Palace, I'm not sure. The street name escapes me too.

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Early fifties – Monday evenings to the Empire for 6d for the 6 o’clock showing.
Friday evenings to the Odeon. We went in early and stayed as late as we could get away with before some nosey parker usherette remembered that we had almost taken up residence and threw us out.

Even though I went to the school (Accrington Secondary Technical School 1948 - 1952) across the road from the Palladium in Ossy I never actually went to the cinema. I lived almost in the Centre of Accrington on Castle Street and then on Blackburn Road next to what used to be the Coop clothes shop so it was too far to go especially when there were plenty of cinemas closer. And then there was the question of money or rather the lack of it.

So most of my leisure time was spent up Gatty park or on wet days under the railway bridge near the bottom of Scaitcliffe Street playing football. We also had a ‘den’ under one of the platforms in the railway station where boy met girl and found out the difference. There used to be a way in (for kids) from Paxton Street. I wonder what ever happened to Mavis Hargreaves? Her dad was a brute. If any of us lads came within ten yards of Mavis he would threaten us with his belt and chase us away.

Then in ’53 when girls became something more than someone to tease we discovered dancing and went to Knowlmere Street to learn and on to the Ritz on Saturday nights.

Once in a while I paid my sixpence and took the long climb up to the gods in the Hippodrome to watch a variety show.

Sometimes I wish that I could go back to those carefree days but then there would be no computers.

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What some folk would do to get hold of a Majestic wafer ! :D Did ya' take each wafer slice off one at a time then lick the fondant cream 'til you got to the next slice, albeit did go rather soggy if you licked too hard.. hee hee.

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Oh....! Katex, you were watching me....now I am soooooooo embarassed!

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My Mum informed me that the one in Rhyddings Street, next to the Con Club, was called the Palace.

The three picture houses in Ossy showed two pictures a week, so if you timed it right, and you had the money, you could see a diferent film every night of the week, except for Sunday, when apparently they closed.

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Ah - wrong Con Club. :D I thought you meant Church Con. It was all so lo-o-o-ng ago.......!

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No, your memory served you well, you were right. :)

The Palace was on Rhyddings street, next to the Con.

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Ah! The Church Con up Ossy. I remember it well. Opened by Joe Mortimer who ran Joe Morts rock and roll club above Kingdom Hall on Blackburn Road adjacent to the railway bridge for youngsters who still preferred real dancing. You know waltz, quickstep, foxtrot, tango and a selection of Olde Tyme dancing like the Barn Dance, Paul Jones etc.

Sadly it wasn’t well patronised and closed after a few months but it was great while it lasted.

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hello, you have found me! [mavis hargreaves]..Please tell me about yourself.:hothothot

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what era mavis? welcome by the way.:)

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Quite possibly Accyweb's most cryptic first post ever! :confused:

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This is what Mavis must be answering!!!! It was dated 7/04/2006

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yeh penny just dropped so i pmd her.:)

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Hope you redirected her to Blackburnweb! :)

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Dont be daft,i aint that cruel.:D

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:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Sod of we're trying to get shut of him on there:D

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I'll have you know there are some very sophisticated people on BW Wyn, there's me for a start, then Retlaw, Katex, but the biggest plus is there's no Mancie or comnstanley:D:D:D

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Hi ithink the ritz was on church st. just pass j.g. barnes furniture shop i used to work there as a carpet fitter in 1954..please correct me if i am wrong.

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Noboby,s mentioned the Ritz and Empress in Clayton.

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Ok ... one was by the bridge over the cut, near the con club, I think ... and the other was up past the Load, opposite the chippy, which would make it the top end:mad: .... but I can't for the life of me remember which was which:confused: I think the Empire was the one by the bridge ... I remember watching cultural gems like "The Thing From Planet X" ... and I remember the going to watch "Rock Around the Clock" in the one by the Load. Also saw my first skin flick there, "Naked As Nature Intended" I think it was called. This was a great cinema: 3d on Saturdays for a cartoon, an oater, and the cliffhanger:mosher: I also remember that it was referred to as the laugh and scratch ... similar to the bug hut, I guess. Oh, and you could whip out when it was slow and grab a bag of chips from across the road.:D

A different world, running down the street with your mac buttoned around your neck to look like Batman's cape ... I miss it sometimes. Must be getting old:rolleyes::D

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Eric, it was the Star, ( later the Carlton ) next to the Load of Mischief, and the Empress, accross the road from the Commercial Pub. The chippy, accross the road from the Star, was Dora's then it was chan's, for great curry & chips with two fried eggs.

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Ok ... thanx .... I remember the chippy well .... I think I got in on the curry and chips thing ... but I can't remember the fried eggs bit:confused:

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dont forget the grand cinema on blackburn road great harwood on the corner of rushton street,also one in rishton on the corner of walmsley street and the high street near the walmsley arms

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I know the one in Gt Harwood became a Bingo Hall Alan, because Fred Skinner had it in the 70/80s the Carlton as well at one time, he also had one near the Canal in Clayton, did a bit of work on both of them for Fred at some time

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It is a litle known fact outside the town that all of Accrington's cinemas began with the letter 'T':-

Th'Odeon, th'Empire, t'Princess, t'Palace, t'Ritz and t'King's Hall.

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Tha doesn't say:D

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I used to go dancing down the Ritz-met a boy who owned 9 suits! He came from Blackburn, though!

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Heyup, lad!

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Was actually 10 Stephanie and I didn't come from Blackburn:D

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the pictures in ossy was the palace,rhyddings street where the shopfitters used to be, my doctor was on that street dr millar

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There was also The Empire, more or less across Union Rd from the Palladium. Down a 'back street'

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The Royal was on corner of the back,long gone,became a kitchen place i think.:)

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So as the pub cashy, there was the Cavern Cafe accross the road a place I used to hang out, living the pinball wizard:D

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remember the cafe very well, every time i hear cliff richards oldies its always reminded me of the coffee bar as it it was, called by us, long time ago,

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The cavern cafe always reminds me of Del Shannon. seem to recall the owner was a West Indian Lady or summat?

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I went in the day it opened and it weren't no big mama cashy:D

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Make yourself known-you of the 10 suits who didn't come from Blackburn!

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Was there still a Nellie Burke's shop across from the Princes? We used to queue for about half an hour to get a bag of pear drops before getting into the picture queue

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Used to work at the Little Empire up Ossy, three times a week in the evening for extra pocket money. Had a sort of crush on a bloke with a tweed jacket and a pipe!

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I used to go dancing at the Middlehursts club. The dancing teacher was Claare and there was Jimmy the expert. Does anyone know what happend to Irene Maher, Clare Middlehurst's sister? She lived in Church and worked at Chambers' Mill over the bridge near the canal.

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You mean there is actually somebody on here who doesn't know who I am wow:D

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Jaysay - Aged stud muffin & faded fashion icon. ;) If your own eulogy is to be believed ? :D

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Better to be a has been than a never was.

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Aged yes, Muffin Yes,
stud, more like a football boot stud.
Faded fashion icon, more like vanished.
:tongueout:tongueout:tongueout

Retlaw

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Oh I don't know, still, each to their own I suppose. :)

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Margaret its sad you feel the need to put yourself down, I'm sure you weren't so bad if you look back:rolleyes:

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Do you mean in Accy Stephanie, because I used to work in a little toffee shop during school holidays opposite a cinema and the lady was called Nellie Burke?