The big screen

Sometimes you feel you were between ways of living not least as that boy as today it is rare for children to be taken a lot to the Cinema - in our day they were in town and city centres rather than vast retail and leisure parks out of town - as many opt to stream films on large screen televisions instead

The cinema is different for being a very much a social experience as collectively you all respond to the film, talk with others before and after it has ended with Ooms and Ah's, holding on to the plush fold down seat.

One thing there was were cinema clubs for younsgsters with discounts for Saturday matinee showings so it was the place to go with your mates armed with some money for the film and popcorn.

A thing that was starting to change when I was first introduced to the cinema watching classic Disney productions like The Aristocats was while we'd be put in our best, thankfully at that point in proper short trousers, later on children like adults stopped dressing up for that and the theatre wearing jeans or jogging bottoms.

Girls wore pretty skirts and dresses aided by their mums.

For a period that great christmas stocking filler, the Annual, might of contained one dedicated to the stars of the the big screen with features on the latest films and leading actors and actresses of the sort of films we watched.

And they were films back then, not Movies that was so so American and looked down upon.

There were rules about behaviour while there and if you joined a cinema club, specific ones that breaking could lead to you being banned from the club.

Sometimes I feel it is sad so many youngster don't get the buzz of a Saturday off whatching a film with their mates, being in a nother world for a few hours.