anyone out there remember saturday afternoon matinee's at the manor pictures plus do you remember the rex pictures

i spent many hours in the rex.........i saw jaws 26 times and grease about the same...we used to chip in the entrance fee for one person then he'd go and open the fire exists for the rest of us.....:D

It must have been before my time. Where were the Manor pictures?.

is it now sommerfield?

My earliest memories are of the Gateway. My mum would always say "C'mon were goin tu top o manor". I hated that walk up City rd.

I used to go to Manor Pictures and the Rex regually. I lived at Intake.

When young we would go twice a wk There used to be different pictures on on thursdays-- saturday. There was usually a small film on as well as the bigger one and Tom & Jerry, or a DIY man called ?Pete Smith. The films ran continuously so u could go in early and see everything round twice. I can remember peying 10d about 4 p
Never went to the manor matinees tho My dad thought they were a bit rough (were they).?
Took my hotwater bottle to the Manor pictures once, it was freezing.
hazel

remember it well,irish usherette,she would bash your head in with her rubber torch if you did any thing she considered wrong,manager always wore a dickie bow,if you went down underneath there was the snooker hall, looking up you could see up the lasses skirts as they qued up waiting to go in to the pictures because some of the small glass windows were missing,we,d poke a snooker cue up sometimes and listen to the arguments that started when the girl accused the bloke behind her of lifting her skirt

I've bin to the Manortop pics when I was a kid.

Manager of the Manor snooker hall was called Tom. Only a little guy, but he would chase you out if he thought you wasn't 16. The lady who used to work in the cinema kiosk issuing the tickets used to place me & my mate at the side of any young ladies who she thought was 'nice'. As a ticket used to reserve your seat, she used to hang on to them until we had finished playing snooker.

Only went to Manor pictures a few times but used to go a hell of a lot to the snooker hall in the cellar.
Great days, lucky if you got a straight cue, table without cellotape or balls that weren't chipped.

Hazel
I remember you and your hot water bottle --B B was the name of the boyfriend.

The Manor Top
used to be a name to be conjured with - - The Elm Tree pub - - The Cinema, and the snooker hall below.
Tom the manager, ---You were honored if you could use the first table in front of the office!
The cafe by the side - - two ladies - - Margerate & Beatie I think - - original style coffee bar to me. Think Vimto or frothy coffee. I think it later turned into the clinic (Maternity that is)
The Saturday rush! The tanner special - - watch the manager come on to open the show - - bow tie et al - - flash gordon - hopolong cassidy - Then dash out to run around on "Pit Hill" - now the fire station.
I've slid down that on 'alf an anderson shelter and nearly made it across the pit pond at the bottom - - had to swim to shore! Wonder we didn't catch typhoid. Happy Days.

Manor Picture House, now Somerfields supermarket,I'll be in there tomorrow morning taking my old auntie shopping (she's 97 and likes to go shopping on a Wednesday Bless her) well it gets her out.

What was the last film shown at the Manor Pictures?

I used to go to the Manor picture house in the early 1930,s with my mother and dad and my sister,when there was a good film showing the queue used to reach Ridgeway Road,it used to cost a shilling for the 3 of us with a quarter of sweets, 4pence each for mun and dad 2pence for me and carry my sister inplus 2pence for a quarter of sweets
the kids matinee on saturday afternoon were great ,they had a serial which always ended with the goodies chasing the badies I well remember Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette in the Phantom Empire.It always started with a cartoon but the 3 Stooges always got the best cheers better than any you heard at bramall lane or owlerton

I used to go to manor pictures for the saturday matinees in the sixties. it was a bit of a free for all if i remember, lots of kids running around and screaming and the staff constantly trying to keep order. We had to sing happy birthday to kids who we didnt know and were probably lying about it being their birthday anyway!! they seemed to give a lot of seaside rock away as prizes. loved going there though my dad took me to all the james bond movies in those days shown as double bills. went to see one million years bc with raquel welch, and another dinosaur film, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, when a cavewoman exposed her breasts and my dad didnt know where to put his face!!

I vaguely remember it being ripped out and changed into the "CHALLENGE!!" supermarket but i can't think when that was .

When I was a teenager, I went up to a girl who was strolling by and asked her for a date. Forward, wasn't I? We went to the manor Pictures and saw Peyton Place. :)

oh my god - I had my first proper snog in the manor pictures - Ian Carrier ! where are you?

I vaguely remember it being ripped out and changed into the "CHALLENGE!!" supermarket but i can't think when that was .

i work for somerfields now the one on the manor and recentlly we had our roof mended because it was practically falling down x when they had the tiles off once you could see right up to the top of the old decor in the roof it was amazing also down in our warehouse there are some sighns of where the cinema & snooker hall? used to be x

I went to the Manor and the Rex,but nobody has mentioned the "Ranchhouse". Do you remember that one? All you blokes after the skirt probably went on the "monkey rack" at The Manor,if you could afford it. Otherwise in the pit.

use to watcn woodywoodpecker and flash gordon saturday afternoon
took it inturns to pretend it was our birthday and get half a crown

In the late sixties Friday nights at the Manor were to say the least a bit rowdy, however like most teenagers we soon calmed down and got girl friends
I remember taking one girlfriend later to become my wife to the Studio Seven in the Wicker to see Woodstock.
To my horror the manager of the Manor had taken over the Studio Seven.
Despite trying to avoid him stood in the foyer he saw me , looked me up and down grinned and said 'I hope we're going to behave ourselves tonight'.

That took some explaining.

you could always tell if saturday afternoon matinee showed zoro,all the kids came running out with their coats tied at the neck like a cape

you could always tell if saturday afternoon matinee showed zoro,all the kids came running out with their coats tied at the neck like a cape

We use to gallop home from the Forum like that :hihi:

!946-52 lived in the prefabs just across from the Carlton, remember going twice a week to see the superman serial there and the Manor every Saturday morning,
I've had my fair share of the Blueberry cape coming home from that, My favorite was the Durango Kid..
I think it's safe now to reveal he was really Charles Steruck....sssssssssh

Went to the Manor Pictures every Saturday morning in the early 50s.It used to be packed with screaming kids and if anyone got out of hand there was a bloke with a torch who used to shine it on the offenders.If that did'nt work then he would knock them on the head with it. Wouldn't get away with that today !!!!

Used to throw rice and stuff up into the projection light, you couldn't actually make out the dialogue for all the racket going on, though it was a bit more upmarket than the little dick in Darnall!

Went to the Manor Pictures every Saturday morning in the early 50s.It used to be packed with screaming kids and if anyone got out of hand there was a bloke with a torch who used to shine it on the offenders.If that did'nt work then he would knock them on the head with it. Wouldn't get away with that today !!!!

Hi Davekowl,

I think the man you are talking about, was known to us as "Parrot nu-us" (for obvious reasons). When all the kids were in, he would close the door, and to a massive cheer from the kids, would go and press a button just behind one of the screen curtains to signal the projectionist to start the first film.

It's funny but when I think of the Manor's kids matinees I also automatically think of the Joy-Stick triangular ice lolly. Maybe this is because the cooling system behind Adsetts shop could be seen when queuing for the matinee, and Adsetts made the Joy-Sticks.

(Adsetts later diversified into supplying insulation materials. Lead by the son Norman, later Sir Norman, they founded Sheffield Insulations Ltd. which is one of the largest companies of it's type in Europe).

Regards m.

What was the last film shown at the Manor Pictures?

Manor Cinema closed on 14 June 1969. The last film shown there was Charles Aznavour and Ewa Aulin in 'Candy'.

!946-52 lived in the prefabs just across from the Carlton, remember going twice a week to see the superman serial there and the Manor every Saturday morning,
I've had my fair share of the Blueberry cape coming home from that, My favorite was the Durango Kid..
I think it's safe now to reveal he was really Charles Steruck....sssssssssh

Hi Grinder
My aunt May Mattewman lived across from the Carlton in the prefabs
She was one of those Aunts that is not related but you seem to inherit. She had a son called John.

hazel.
I lived on Algar Drive, when we moved in they where still finishing some off on the Cresant, I'm sure there were some German prisoners of war working on there but this was 1946, anyone know if that's true..
Manaman mentioned the joy-stick lollies my favorite. At the top of the road was the Carlton cinema and at the side near the entrance to the pit there was a sweet shop that sold these lollies....
Can't remember how much they cost, but can remember how nice they tasted , and this is the first time I've heard them mentioned..Manaman , where they just a local thing...?

I too remember the joysticks. They were a triangle shape and orange flavoured and delicious.
Don't know whether German Prisoners worked on the prefabs but I remember them being built.
hazel

Thanks for reminding me of the cooling system "Manaman". I'd totally forgotten about that.
Oh take me back !!!!!

hazel.
Do you remember the 1947 winter up there, nothing could get down our road which was a couldesack.. those Prefabs where made of sheet asbestos with one small all-night burner ( which didn't) in the middle to warm the whole house and the coal man couldn't get down the road.
Remember we had a small portable one bar electric fire we could only afford to burn for a couple of hours..
You couldn't get a pair of wellingtons for love nor money and the snow was so deep you couldn't cross the road.
I've never been so cold in my life.....Happy days ?

Yes grinder.
The snow was so high and hard packed that no one could be seen walking on the road which was cleared because the bus had to come down Arbourthorne Rd.
The snow was piled up high, everyone had there own gennel of snow leading to their house and when we walked on top of the hard snow we were almost level with the bedroom windows.
When we opened our front door the doorway was blocked to the top and more with drifted snow.
I was 10 and stayed off scool for 6 wks because milk, coal etc had to be collected from the easiest place the man could stop.
We had a new baby who could not be left so I was the one dispatched to do the fetching and carrying.
hazel

Manaman mentioned the joy-stick lollies my favorite. At the top of the road was the Carlton cinema and at the side near the entrance to the pit there was a sweet shop that sold these lollies....
Can't remember how much they cost, but can remember how nice they tasted , and this is the first time I've heard them mentioned..Manaman , where they just a local thing...?

Hi grinder,

I think they used to cost 2p for a full stick, and a 1p for half a stick. The triangular thin cardboard tube the lolly was in was marked at the centre so that the selling shops could cut them in half, and sell half lollies if they wanted to.

To be able to lick or bite a piece off the lolly, the bottom of the tube had to be squeezed in order to push the lolly above the top level of the tube. It was then advisable to fold up the bottom end of the tube to stop the lolly and any melted lolly coming out of the bottom of the tube. This only worked for a time before the non-waterproof tube would go all soggy and hands become wet and sticky.

They were local, being made by Adsetts at their shop next to Owens Chemists at Manor Top.

Regards m.

I remember very well going to the manor rex & carlton..back in the fourtys
we had to ask some adult to take us in .

Done that a few times roy, Funny I would never have let my kids do that but it was quite common then....
Hi manorman.
Thanks for that, boy do you bring back a few memories,I never knew where they came from but I know where a lot of them went, think I was addicted...

does anyone remember at the a end of the war free ice cream from a local Manor shop Abbots i think.kids came from running from far and wide.

hazal..
We're round about the same age, did you go to the old Arbourthorne north school....
If you remember Alger Drive and the crescent were like two fingers sticking down into the fields, about five prefabs down either side a small Island at the bottom with I think about another five prefabs around it..
Last time I looked the road was still there but of course the prefabs are gone now a lot being blown down or badly damaged in the big gale we had,now it's different houses different lay out...
When we moved in in 1946 they were supposed to be a sort of temporary housing with a life span of 10 yrs........yer sure.
But it meant when they cleared the main roads it was piled up at the top of ours it was like living behind the Berlin wall.....

hi Grinder
That baby brother I talked about in the bad winter of 47 , is at this moment undergoing a triple heart bypass in NGH so I pleased to take my mind off the present and remember the past.
So you moved there in time for the snow then must have been quite a shock because winters were always worse near Manor top.
I was born in Arbourthorne Rd in 1936 and only went to Arbourthorne Central for a year or so while St Vincents recovered from the bomb blast My Mom sent us back to the school where she had been to be taught by the nuns.
Think we were the only kids on the estate with the convent uniform and we used to take a lot of stick.
I to can remember standing outside the Carlton and asking people to take us in -- difficult to believe now but luckily we came to no harm. Occasionally a more responsible adult who had taken us in made us sit beside them instead of running off when we got inside. I was always a bit wary of them but they were only doing what our parents should have done and supervised us.
I think you are a few years younger than me so as I played around Arbourthorne Rd and the fishing pond you were perhaps were nearer Eastern Ave or Northern Ave can never remember which was which.
My Brother John was born around 1940-41 you may have known him -- we moved in about 1950

hazel

Hi Hazel.
Sorry to hear about your brother, hope every thing works out...
Me.
I was born in 1939 at Jessops, No brothers or sisters..
Dad was on reserve, so called back at the outbreak of war and taken prisoner in France..
Didn't see him till 1945, mom worked at English steels and we lived in a flat down the cliff,
We were offered a prefab in 46 and took it.
Mum wasn't pleased she wanted a real house but it was better than the flat ,we stayed there for six years...
All the kids I remember were from School or off our road, we were a tight bunch....
Looking back it seemed I did most of my playing on the fields, in Norfolk Park,
or Cherry woods ...
Great place for fresh air....Ha,Ha