shared by Chris Perrior. Photo: Nick Prince
Chris Perrior… this image comes courtesy of Nick Prince and cinema treasures web site,it shows the Regal cinema mid 1960’s a decade after it closed ,demolition began 1973 and the office block that replaced it was known as Gundolphus house and then ocean house, in the foreground is the tin building that was the sorting office for Royal mail, with a glimpse of the station forecourt
David Fussell… I remember the empty cinema in the seventies before it was knocked down.
Roger Simmonds… Me too such happy memories!
Mick Knights… I have no idea why but I remember my parents taking me there to see Eddie Calvert. (aka the man with the golden trumpet)
Mick O’Dowd… The building bottom left was the GPO sorting office that my Dad was based at.
John Busbridge… I remember going there!
David Kent… We lived just up the road from here. There was a poster on the front of the cinema that said “Tonight, Syncopating Sandy will attempt to play the piano” – or something very much like it.
Patrick Turner… The Flea Pit in my day
Nigliv… Went there often in the 50s: remember seeing the marvellous ‘Forbidden Planet’ (1956) there. At that time, we also had the Curzon, Roxy Continental, Gaiety, Orion, Ritz, De Luxe.
Kev Perry… I started my job as a postie in that old tin hut,great memories
The Flea Pit in my day
Went there often in the 50s: remember seeing the marvellous ‘Forbidden Planet’ (1956) there. At that time, we also had the Curzon, Roxy Continental, Gaiety, Orion, Ritz, De Luxe.