The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

When my good lady was a small girl she would go in the Lyric on Holbrooks lane on a Saturday afternoon and it cost a shilling, that cinema is now a pound shop.

Aren't they all .
The one we did our most of courting in is now a Wetherspoons.
The other one is now town centre car parking.........before that it was the famous Mr Smiths of Pete Waterman fame.
A 3rd one is a car wash.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Aren't they all .
The one we did our most of courting in is now a Wetherspoons.
The other one is now town centre car parking.........before that it was the famous Mr Smiths of Pete Waterman fame.
A 3rd one is a car wash.

Yes, its sad, the one we used is now part of the university.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I used to go to the ABC Minors at the Robin Hood cinema on the Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham every Saturday morning when I were a lad. Cost 6d to get in.

I remember seeing that demolished with one of those big concrete balls swung from a crane, very exciting for a small boy . They knocked it down in order to build a Waitrose.
Just checking my recollection with Google, I notice that it’s still marked as a Waitrose, and even better, Scotts Cycles in the row of shops opposite still appears to be there. Our parents bought all of our childhood bikes from there.

 

[oldwheels]

Such as!!

There is very little fiction of mine. A lot were my wife's who liked Dr Zhivago and Carmina Gadelica. She had a wide range of interests and all the fiction was hers. If I was into grave goods I would have put Dr Zhivago with her. Too much to list.
Lots of cycling related stuff of various ages as well as travel. Gardening tomes and plant, bird , insect, tree recognition etc. looking to my left as I type Travels with a Donkey catches my eye as well as Coin Collecting and Popski's Private Army, also Travels of Tramp Royal and a fair number of boat repair and sailing books. The Agricultural Notebook from my student days I still refer to sometimes.
As you can see there is a very wide range.

 

[oldwheels]

Sometimes I detest the garden and the tyranny of keeping it more or mostly less tidy. However when this season comes round there is some satisfaction in digging up enough tatties to do me for a couple of weeks from just 2 shaws and the savoys are coming along nicely. Beans are all picked and mostly frozen. Purple sprouting broccoli won't be ready for a while yet but handy in the lean season and gives me an excuse not to rotovate.
Spent the afternoon fighting with a Topeak bar extension to hold my new camera on the front of the trike. This one was removed from somewhere else and I cannot get it to tighten on a different diameter bar. Useless bit of junk.

 

[oldwheels]

Trouble is that some stuff is too nice to be binned.

Charity shop is where my still useful junk goes. The dump has changed now but it used to be referred to by many as The Spares Department.
I should perhaps add that the charity shop I use is locally run and all profits remain on the island.

 

[classic33]

I used to go to the ABC Minors at the Robin Hood cinema on the Stratford Road, Hall Green, Birmingham every Saturday morning when I were a lad. Cost 6d to get in.

That were the expensive one, Costing over a £1 to get in. Bit of a difference, pricewise.

One is now a bingo hall, the other a closed up nightclub. The other diagonally opposite, is a night club.

 

[screenman]

Aren't they all .
The one we did our most of courting in is now a Wetherspoons.
The other one is now town centre car parking.........before that it was the famous Mr Smiths of Pete Waterman fame.
A 3rd one is a car wash.

Our local cinema is still a cinema but called The Kinema, great place that still has the organ pop up during the interlude. Funny I did not want to use the word organ after what you lot were talking about doing.

 

[screenman]

Just heard that you have to isolate for two weeks after coming back from Iceland, does anyone know if it is the same for Farmfoods?

 

[ColinJ]

After that a call at Asda. I bought a cordless mouse last week but it appears the receiver/dongle thingy is missing. It shows it on the package but its not there .

Let me see if I can magic one up for you, Dave...


"ABRACADABRA give Dave a dongle...."

Okay, Dave, you now have a dongle! (It is inserted in a little compartment on the bottom of the mouse!)






(I could be wrong, but I went through the same process with a Lidl cordless mouse and eventually discovered the dongle!)

 

[BoldonLad]

How long ago was that.In the late 1940s I paid a shilling to go to the kids Saturday morning cinema.

The first time I took a girl to the pics I asked for two one an sixes( ( they were the seats near the front)She wanted two and sixpence seats(balcony) No problem said I just one one and six and I will see you tomorrow.

Due to not wanting to get banned I can’t repeat her response.It did end with tight blank blank.

A shilling!

When I was 5-6 years old, (1952-1953), I used to go to Saturday morning cinema.

I was given a shilling (5p), this broke down as follows: 1.5d bus fare there; 3d for sweets; 6d entrance money for cinema; 1.5d bus fare home.

For the youngsters: Twelve old pence or a shilling ie 12d or = 5p

 

[classic33]

Our local cinema is still a cinema but called The Kinema, great place that still has the organ pop up during the interlude. Funny I did not want to use the word organ after what you lot were talking about doing.

Nor it popping up during the interlude.

 

[Dave7]

Let me see if I can magic one up for you, Dave...


"ABRACADABRA give Dave a dongle...."

Okay, Dave, you now have a dongle! (It is inserted in a little compartment on the bottom of the mouse!)






(I could be wrong, but I went through the same process with a Lidl cordless mouse and eventually discovered the dongle!)

Really ????
Nothing, absolutely nothing to suggest that.
Fortunately I wasn't well enough to go back today.... ....I will check that out.

 

[Tenkaykev]

This cinema thread is getting a bit racy. What with Dave7 in the back row with his hand up some lasses jumper, and Screenman with his Organ popping up 😯

 

[pawl]

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Nor it popping up during the interlude.

There’s one in Norfolk called theKinema I the woods Is it the same one?