There were three - One was the Park Cinema,another
called The Kinema ??
What was the other called across from Barracks ?

Went there a lot as a kid - Jerry Lewis and Norman Wisdom
films went down well.

pheonix i think ,great place me an me mate used to love going there..sort of art deco outside

Thanks Gobby - could not remember that for the life of me.

Cheers Chris

Yes it was the Phoenix and i too watched Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis . Ithink I also saw Ben Hur and Quo Vadis, I did my courting at the Kinema and the Park cinema which was across the road from the Smugglers Cave coffee bar...great times

Thanks for the memory. Chris M

When we were kids we were spoilt for choice living in the Hillsborough area'.

There was the Hillsborough Park Cinema, The Kinema and the Phoenix right on the doorstep

They all changed their programmes twice per week and so we had the choice of six different films to see every week.

Tne best of all was there were several cinemas within a short tram ride or a walk from hillsborough.

There was The Ritz, The Forum, the Walkley Palladium, The Unity, The Roscoe and the Oxford Picture House.

On Saturday mornings we went to see the serials at either the Ritz or The Forum.

Happy Days!

Anyone remember standing outside when a A rated film was on and asking the grown ups to" take me in mester"Used to do it all the time at the ritz...sometimes if you were lucky they would pay for you aswell..;)

My dad was the local copper for Hillsborough and Wadsley Bridge .One of his duties was going into picture houses and checking the ages of people in there.
I've got one of his old notebooks where he mentions him and his sergeant going into Hillsboro' park cinema.The film that was on was "Nudes of the World " an X rated film.Inside the cinema they found a young lad who was 15 years old watching the film.After interviewing him ,the manager and the cashier the final result was the cashier got fined in court 7/6d (371/2 p) and a warning.
Bring back zero tolerance !!!

The Phoenix was named after the owners of the Cinema and had nothing to do with "rising from the ashes" although the amount of cigarette smoke in there would have justified the title.

Ray

Originally posted by burnttoast
Anyone remember standing outside when a A rated film was on and asking the grown ups to" take me in mester"Used to do it all the time at the ritz...sometimes if you were lucky they would pay for you aswell..;) oh god,this post made me laugh so much,can you believe a film was given the adult warning if they said bleedin hell:hihi:

Originally posted by arrodbo
Yes it was the Phoenix and i too watched Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis . Ithink I also saw Ben Hur and Quo Vadis, I did my courting at the Kinema and the Park cinema which was across the road from the Smugglers Cave coffee bar...great times the smugglers god that brings back memorys i used to live in that smokey den with the one pinball machine and the jukebox....fluffy coffees and parkdrive....and up the passageways with the girls .....by the way who are you?????

Spent a lot of my time in the Smugglers, living on Shenstone Rd it was very near. Also Mitchells cafe at the top of Leppings, they too had a jukebox and it was there I first heard Buddy Holly. This being 1959, I then joined the Navy as a boy of 15.

Jossman,you must be Dennis Riley or Peter Swan,am i right?

Dead right, I am Pete and Dennis was my 'oppo, he joined the RAF. Let me know who you are please.

Originally posted by Jossman
Also Mitchells cafe at the top of Leppings, they too had a jukebox and it was there I first heard Buddy Holly. .

I used to sit next to Julie Mitchell at Hillsborough school!

Jossman, did you have a brother called Bob?

Originally posted by arrodbo
Yes it was the Phoenix and i too watched Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis . Ithink I also saw Ben Hur and Quo Vadis, I did my courting at the Kinema and the Park cinema which was across the road from the Smugglers Cave coffee bar...great times did you go in the snooker hall at the side of the park cinema???]][[put lights on No 13teen please pop]]]

I used to wag school and go there......after getting a pie from the pie shop about where the chinese is now. Spent many a happy hour in there.

Originally posted by RoyalRegular
I used to wag school and go there......after getting a pie from the pie shop about where the chinese is now. Spent many a happy hour in there. remember the old blokes that used to play on table 13 they used to play a game called chase the green i think

I remember the old blokes playing a game called "golf" and they had two (i think) extra balls......a purple and an orange. How many tables were there exactly? I seem to remember about 8 with the best ones being near the door.

Jossman. Its Roy turton, surprise surprise!! nice to hear from you again.

Royal regular, There were 13 tables and when my dad came in looking for me i used to hide under the tables, after all i was only 12 and you had to be 14 to get in.
you were either a very good player or a betting man to play on table 13 as it was allegedley the best one

Hi Roy, nice to speak again. Have moved since I saw you last. Royal Reg. Snooker plus had purple and orange balls. Golf was a very hard game and always positional. Table 13 was for the young "Hotshots" and not a place to be if you couldn't play, especially for money.

Roy, am sending a pm.

Royal Regular, don't know who you are but this is Bob Swann . I live in Spain now. This is my first post, cannot sen d pms as this my first post. Being guided through this by my brother in England We are both drinking through the process. Roy Hi this is petes brother just joined

Dead Gobby I must know who you are, went to Hillsborough school and played truant to spend my time on table thirteen. Was never as good as Frank B though.

What about Mr Bartimote?


Bob, It's your bandmate from "The Living Blend"!

Very interesting snippet there about my brother and the "Living Blend". I thought I was the guitar player in the family. I will use this for some embarrasing chit-chat. Thanks a million.

I saw Blackboard Jungle in the Phoenix when I was 14,wow some film at that time.

Hi Dave, nice to see you still around, up the RAF, right up 'em. Cheers, Pete.

Anyone remember standing outside when a A rated film was on and asking the grown ups to" take me in mester"Used to do it all the time at the ritz...sometimes if you were lucky they would pay for you aswell..;)

Imagine doing that today