If you look to the right on that site, you will see more Bristol cinemas... http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2063068492/in/set-72157603194396363/ Edna - Ottawa

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:00:23 -0000, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> wrote: > If you look to the right on that site, you will see more Bristol > cinemas... > http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2063068492/in/set-72157603194396363/ Thanks, Edna. I followed your directions and looked through every picture. What memories some of these cinemas have conjured up in my mind not only of the films I saw at them, but of the friends and relatives who accompanied me. The Odeon in Bristol features prominently in my mind as there I saw South Pacific, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Becket, Othello and A Man for all Seasons. The visit to the Odeon for South Pacific was probably in 1959, but the other films were seen in the 1960s. Other cinemas, where I saw films were the Gaumont, the King's, the Whiteladies, the Metropole, the Vandyck, the Regal and the Orpheus. My last visit to a cinema was 29 years ago on 6th. February, on the occasion of my nephew's 16th. birthday. It only seems like yesterday. Time has certainly flown since then. I could reminisce all night, to myself, but I've just received an e-mail from my hungry husband, which says, 'What's for tea and when are we going to have it?' Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

Hi Josephine, I remember seeing "Bambi" and "Wizard of Oz" downtown Bristol but not sure of the cinema. Had to walk down from Trinity St. through lots of rubble from the bombings. Cheers, Edna - Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Bristol cinemas... On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:00:23 -0000, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> wrote: > If you look to the right on that site, you will see more Bristol > cinemas... > http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/2063068492/in/set-72157603194396363/ Thanks, Edna. I followed your directions and looked through every picture. What memories some of these cinemas have conjured up in my mind not only of the films I saw at them, but of the friends and relatives who accompanied me. The Odeon in Bristol features prominently in my mind as there I saw South Pacific, Cleopatra, The Sound of Music, Becket, Othello and A Man for all Seasons. The visit to the Odeon for South Pacific was probably in 1959, but the other films were seen in the 1960s. Other cinemas, where I saw films were the Gaumont, the King's, the Whiteladies, the Metropole, the Vandyck, the Regal and the Orpheus. My last visit to a cinema was 29 years ago on 6th. February, on the occasion of my nephew's 16th. birthday. It only seems like yesterday. Time has certainly flown since then. I could reminisce all night, to myself, but I've just received an e-mail from my hungry husband, which says, 'What's for tea and when are we going to have it?' Josephine --

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:11:21 -0000, liverpud <liverpud-49@rogers.com> wrote: > Hi Josephine, I remember seeing "Bambi" and "Wizard of Oz" downtown > Bristol but not sure of the cinema. Had to walk down from Trinity St. > through lots of rubble from the bombings. Hi Edna, You would have gone to one of the city cinemas like the Odeon in Union Street, Bristol and you would have seen the same bombed-out streets that I saw as a child. Ian reckons that there was still evidence of bomb damage in Bristol in the late 1960s, but I must have been so used to it by then that I didn't take any notice. I saw the Wizard of Oz at the Vandyck Cinema, Fishponds perhaps seven or eight years later than you saw it in Bristol. I thought it was scary, but even more frightening was the 1958 film about the sinking of the Titanic, A Night to Remember, starring Kenneth More, which I saw at The Regal, Staple Hill with my Mum. She thought it was going to be a comedy as we had previously seen the 1953 film, Genevieve, starring Kenneth More. The link you've given to the Bristol cinema photographs has brought back all sorts of memories, not only of the films but of looking through Bristol's Evening Post to see what was on, the excitement in waiting in the queue to get in and buying little tubs of ice cream from the usherette in the interval. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com