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Garry
Jackson
"When
I was quite young, and during the '50's there were more cinemas,
the ABC which is still going, it was called the Plaza then, on the
site of Eros House, that was where the Hippodrome Theatre was I
think, and a cinema next to it.
There
were 3 cinemas in Catford and going towards Lewisham was the Prince
of Wales, I think it's a decorating place now, and there was the
Lewisham Odeon, and one called the Rex. They seemed to be always
full in the days before anybody had television.
My
Mum and Dad didn't get a television until quite late. I think it
was 1960 that they got theirs. We used to go the cinema once a week
and sometimes twice, and I'd look in the paper to read avidly what
was on and where. I think at first, when we got a television, we
watched practically everything, all the plays. I suppose over the
years we ended up not going to the cinema so much and that dying
off.
Also
as a boy without television, I'd listen to different programmes
on the radio, and dad ran a speaker from their radio wireless to
my bed, and I'd listen in bed. Before television, the radio featured
day and evening."
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