An Old Cinema in Liverpool
Liverpool is a city, where I can walk about the city centre and find loads of memories from my time in the 1960s, there both post and after the time I met C.
An Old Cinema in Liverpool
This cinema in Lime Street, was a bit smaller than most of the others and generally showed less mainstream films. I’m trying to remember what I saw there with C, although I can remember seeing The Collector there with another girl.
One memory of the cinema was that in 1968 or so, a film called Sixteen or something like that was released. It was a feature length film made with sex education in mind. You had the strange site of nuns herding school-girls into the cinema to see it.
I wonder if it had any positive effects. No-one knew what the nuns thought of it.
The Anonymous Widower 
The nuns I have known, and there are a lot of them, are very different and much more open minded than I would have imagined until I started. And they mostly had a realistic understanding of what life was like for young women, and didnt necessarily go along with all the teachings of the Pope.
Comment by liz | September 12, 2011 |
I think it was originally called the Scala. http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhistory/journey/lime_street/cinemas/scala.shtml
Or was it the Futurist? http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/32281
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurist_Cinema,_Liverpool
Comment by tristramshepard | August 14, 2014 |
I think you could be right!
Comment by AnonW | August 14, 2014 |
Hi!
I grew up in Crosby (where the Gormley statues now are) between 1959 and 1972. Sounds like you were in Liverpool then too! I recall going to the Futurist a couple of times – I think I saw ‘The Body’ with music by Ron Geesin/Pink Floyd there.
I’ve actually just come back from a long weekend there showing my family where I grew up. In 1972 I was keen to get a way for the bright lights of London and did not return at all until a few years ago – the city seems to have come alive again!
I see you are interested in trains – I have many memories from the 1960s of the Liverpool Exchange to Southport line and Liverpool Lime Street to Crewe and beyond.
Best wishes
Tristram
Comment by tristramshepard | August 14, 2014
I was at the University from 65 to 68 and then I worked for a year at ICI, whilst I lived with my wife in Woolton.
I go back regularly. I also feel that it doesn’t get the visitors it deserves as tourists from abroad tend to go to the usual places. Liverpool is finally starting to promote itself in London as a day trip destination, as with two train companies serving the city from London, it’s an easy day out. Portsmouth is doing the same and is increasing its visitor numbers.
Comment by AnonW | August 15, 2014 |