The Mayfair cinema, College Road

“Just to add to the Saturday matinee (morning) shows. I don’t know if we were the poorest of the poor but we would buy our tickets from a little ticket window under the metal fire escape. Because of the poor light we would often `silver` a halfpenny using mercury, and purchase a ticket and get sixpence in change. Blame the science teacher, Mr Drew, at Dulwich Road school who taught us such things.”

“My Uncle,Allbert Harrison was the doorman there for most of his life.!930s,40s,and some of the 50s He was a very gentle simple man and loved his heavily braided uniform which was pressed daily and kept immaculate by my aunt Edith.”

“Born in 1938 in Kingstanding the Mayfair was my favorite Cinema. Probably the most important job in the world at that time was to be the doorman of the Mayfair, who was a General by the look of his uniform.”

“most people would come from kingstanding via the passage next to the mayfair known as the gully.such a shame when they bulldozed it.end of an era”

“loved the mayfair flicks on a saturday morning spending my pocket money on sweets from mr cookes sweet shop next door to the cinemathat man had the patience of a saint took ages choosing what to have and he never moaned saw the young ones at the mayfair”

“There is now photos of the Mayfair cinema on the link of VOK. Just click on the Mayfair link. Although, I recognised the frontage of the building I seem to remember it being more art deco in design.”

“THERE WAS ALLWAYS A QUE UNDER THE COVER AT THE LEFT SIDE SIDE.”