Pubs and Cinema

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Transcription But it was, it was just such a, a lovely gentle pace of life and of course westerns were still there. Westerns with the cider and their heavy horses would come through bringing their barrels of, because they were barrels of cider in those days, delivering um to the pubs, and there were a lot of pubs, I mean so many of them have closed now, um. and they were, they were centres of um social activity because the plough and the Royal Oak and the pool pitcher all had skittle alleys and you know people like the Young Wives Club and the men's clubs and things were always having skittles matches and they were a lovely gentle evening's entertainment, and the cinema, of course, the cinema was was still open.

The last film we saw there. Was the baby in the the the the, yes, the baby in the bathroom. No, the baby in the battleship.

Oh yes, with the sailors looking after this baby, and we sat upstairs and upstairs, if the, if the seats were full, you just had chairs that were dotted around, so you'd pick up a chair and take it to where you wanted to sit and then sit and sit and watch. And Mr. Clark, who had bought the cinema. When he gave up, he turned it into a supermarket, but.

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