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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.