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Started by: bentlegs (5295)

How many of the old posters remember going to the pictures as kids? I and a few friends in the 40s & 50s used to walk up to Billinge bug house on a Friday night, There were no street lights due to the blackout, Sometimes one of the lads would have no money to get in the Bug house so a couple would pay to enter ,then go & open the toilet window to let the others in, we never got caught, The seats were just planks of wood at the front for a few rows then proper seats father back, It was always noisy with it being full of kids but before the film started i think every kid used to rhyme off the adverts by heart , Before the main film ,words to a song would come on the screen with a bouncing ball over the words so that you could follow the song, every kid joined in the singing, If for any reason kids got thrown out for being rowdy the thing they would do was to run up & down the side of the picture house with a stick to make a rattling noise on the corrugated tin building or throw stones on the roof, sometimes their friends would let them back in through the toilet window. How i wish we could bring back those days.

Started: 2nd Jul 2015 at 15:50

Posted by: norman prior (817) 

bentlegs, I'm glad you have confessed, the police can now put the case to rest.
On the other note about the blackout, down Crippins all the time but we had 20/29 vision then and it did have its good points.

Replied: 2nd Jul 2015 at 16:01

Posted by: bentlegs (5295)

I dont know how we managed Norman I have been reading about your time in the LFs Interesting, My dads uncle was killed at 18 , in the first W W, He was in the L,Fs.

Replied: 2nd Jul 2015 at 16:10

Posted by: bentlegs (5295)

Norman, i also remember your relative Jake Prior, I think most of the people who lived in the Dolly Tub Row kept pigs during the war, They were only allowed one pig to kill for them selves so if they were killing more than one us kids were paid 3d to stand at the end of the street to shout if we saw the Bobby coming down the road on his bike,

Replied: 2nd Jul 2015 at 16:20

Posted by: norman prior (817) 

bentlegs.I'm glad you remember Jake Prior and the goings on at Simms Road Ends area. The pub would be the focal point and just after the war we used to visit Downall Green and the Blue Bell and then we got promoted to the Simms Lane ends pub. They were great days and of course, the pubs were plentiful and always full, as were the clubs of those days.
Times change.

Replied: 3rd Jul 2015 at 10:03

 

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