Voices of Kingstanding
8 published memories in The Odeon.
Shirley Thain · 1940s · Kingstanding Circle
I spent a great deal of my early childhood with my aunt and uncle on the Pheasey Estate and remember being taken to a clinic on the road to the left of the Odeon with her babies (my cousins who…
Read the full memory: Henry V with the school, Mutiny on the Bounty with my future husbandRob Andrews · 1950s · The Odeon, Kingstanding Circle
Did you ever sneak in the back door near the toilets? we used to put all our money together, one would pay to go in and then open the back door for the rest off us.
Read the full memory: The Odeon club song
Martin Brookes · 1970s · The Odeon
Remembers the building becoming a bingo hall around 1973 and running until 1999; his grandparents Annie and Edward Raven of Esher Road went regularly.
Read the full memory: The bingo years
Terry Jay · 1960s · The Odeon
Went as a child with his sisters, buying sweets from Mores sweet shop beforehand — and later worked in the very same building as a bingo caller in 1966.
Read the full memory: A lifetime in one building
Angela Cotgrave · 1930s · The Odeon
Her grandmother Edith worked as an usherette in the cinema’s early days, and lived on Brockwell Road.
Read the full memory: Grandmother Edith, usherette
Richard Wall · 1940s · The Odeon
Attended the matinees in 1944, singing along to lyrics projected with a bouncing ball, children tipping up the seats during the action scenes.
Read the full memory: Singing along with the bouncing ball, 1944
Veronica Marshall · 1950s · The Odeon
A regular at the Saturday matinee — Roy Rogers and Trigger, Gene Autry — who once lost her teddy bear when a friend borrowed it during a screening. Years later she used the cine…
Read the full memory: Saturday matinees and first dates
Alan Hitchman · 1950s · The Odeon
Walked to the matinee from about ten years old, with his younger sister — cowboy films, cartoons, Flash Gordon serials. Remembers “a big foyer” and an organ that “popped up some…
Read the full memory: A grand place to a young boy