Archive for the ‘Gallery’ Category
A photo from the EGM
(From left to right: David Williams, Ian Meyrick, Charles Morris, Martin Hall, Paul Smith, (?), Ian Grey, Ian Houseman, Johnny Cliff, Derek Atkins, Gerry Glover)
This photo was taken by Kate Taylor.
September Gallery- Gerry Crane recollections
From Bioscope 91 – May 04
A personal recollection by Gerry Crane
I was working as a Laboratory Assistant at Ship Carbon, the firm who manufactured carbons for industrial arc lamps and, of course, for cinema projectors before these were replaced by xenon lamps, when in 1952 I saw an advert for Trainee Cinema Managers in [...]
August Gallery- entertainment buildings in York
Our Administrator recently visited York on July 6th with a new (to him) Fuji s7000 camera. The buildings shown are extensively covered in our Publication, York Cinemas.
June Gallery- Cinema in Braintree
from Mercia Bioscope no. 94 February 2005
CINEMA IN BRAINTREE
Richard Cooper
When I first came to live in the Essex town of Braintree, it was a relatively small community that boasted little more than a quaint High Street with a couple of supermarkets, a number of pubs and a twice-weekly market. Already struggling for survival by the [...]
May Gallery- Leicester/Lincoln memories
Leicester / Lincoln memories, reproduced from Bioscope 85, November 2002.
IN RETROSPECT
Notes by the late George Clark
The following article is the first in a series by George Clark, who was an active cinema historian and enthusiast until his death in December 2001. These were published by the Society in his book The Cinemas o Lincolnshire. As this [...]
April Gallery- Lincolnshire mobile showman
RECOLLECTIONS OF A Lincolnshire MOBILE SHOWMAN
Extracts from a taped interview with Fredrick Norris
The following article appeared in the Mercia Bioscope no. 86, February 2003, and wais the third reprint from George Clark’s The Cinemas of Lincolnshire published by the Society in 1994. As this is now out of print, his long-standing friend Brian Hornsey considered [...]
March gallery- Lincoln
From the Mercia Bioscope no 98 – February 2006
A LINCOLN REWIND BOY
Frank Cossey
In 1937, at the age of 14, I started as a rewind boy at the Central Cinema Lincoln, on 8 shillings a week for 6 (full) days a week. This may seem low, but Grammar School boys with School Certificates were being set-on [...]
March gallery- Ormskirk
This article originally appeared in Bioscope 102, with the letter from Keith Parkinson published in Bioscope 103. The illustrations are after the article and before the subsequent letter. Hover your mouse over the photos for captions and click for a larger image.
MEMORIES OF A FLEA-PIT
19th December 2006 marks (marked) the 25th anniversary of the closure [...]
Manchester Paramount Explored
On the fringes of legality, urban exploration is an unusual hobby where people get into abandoned spaces and document them. Provided that the UrbExer doesn’t actually break into a premises, they are only committing the civil offence of Trespass for which the owner can sue but the Police cannot arrest. (There are a number of [...]
December Gallery
Photographs from the 2007 AGM, held at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, by courtesy of the General Manager, Graham Sykes.
Photos by Mervyn Gould.
Committee members (Left to Right)- Ian Grey (Treasurer/Webmaster), Paul Smith (Bioscope Editor) Frank Wright, Frank Manders, Kate Taylor (Chairman).