Welcome To Saturday Morning Pictures

Talk about enjoying yourselves, we used to love it.

Ok, who remembers going to the pictures on a Saturday Morning after breakfast?
It was the highlight of our week.
Our Parents also knew that if we went, we would be looked after for a few hours and give them a break as well. So it was a win win situation all round, for us as well as them.

We were given a shilling to go, 6d for admission and 6d for a lolly or ice cream in the interval when the usherette came round with them.

We had a film, something like Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid and the Lone Ranger and my favourite was Robin Hood. Cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck etc. etc. It was such good fun, and when the film reel broke you could hear us all booing and stamping our feet and of course Pathé News, which was of no interest to us lot at all!

The projection room of the Cinema in those days.

This was the Granada I went to.

There were also the Saturday Morning Pictures Club. I was a Grenadier as the local cinema was called The Granada.

I was fortunate to live opposite this cinema so it didn't take me long to get there !!

As a Grenadier, you got free admission on your birthday and a free ice cream in the interval. I think you also got called up on stage and got a small present.

It was all great fun for the kids at the time, and generally, there was no trouble apart from a lot of noise!

I met my first boyfriend at Saturday Morning Pictures, his name was Richard and I was about 9 years old and I can still remember where he lived!!

I am not sure if you still get Saturday Morning pictures nowadays, and it's a shame if you don't cos it was part of our childhood and taught us a bit of independence, how to be sociable, and how to behave when our parents weren't around.

Ok, what are your memories of Saturday Morning Pictures.
Did you go, did you love it, were you a member of the Cinema Club for Saturday Mornings?
Let us have your memories etc. of one of the great things of our childhood.

All are welcome.
And please feel free to share all discussions you enjoy.