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Memories of the Odeon Cinema
10:41am Wednesday 19th March 2008
My mother worked at the Odeon when she left school at 14 in 1940.
It was called the New Victoria then not the Odeon.
I used to go dancing in the sixties, seventies and eighties and if I'm sure, I went once or twice in the ninties when it was the Top Rank.
I saw groups and used to go to the Tuesday night dance that was for the police, fire emergency service only.
I had some fantastic nights there. That era will never be captured.
Carole Turle via email
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barryskelhorn, Leyland says...
12:34pm Tue 17 Jun 08
I can remember saving all my pocket money and paper round money to go every single day and sit through every screening of the day when The Beatles graced the screen in "A Hard Days Night" and likewise with "Help". I was a Beatlemaniac back then.
Great times, great cinema's. The Ritz across the road was also a regular attraction.
God help any parent who allowed an 11yr old to travel so freely today.