Gillingham, The Former Embassy Cinema 2005
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Memories of Gillingham, the former Embassy Cinema 2005
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The Embassy in Green Street was formerly called the Odeon. Other cinemas in Gillingham at that time were the Plaza in Duncan Road (on the site of what is now Aldi's) and the Grand on the corner of Skinner Street and Jeffery Street. The Grand closed sometime in the 1960's I think after part of the ceiling collapsed during the Saturday morning kids' pictures. Other cinemas near to Gillingham were the Royal in ...see more
After the war I used to go to the Salvation Army flicks, almost next to the Odeon. They were free on sat ams I believe. I lived at 191 Gillingham Road till 1955,then went to Canada. Memories of Kerridges, Livingstone Circus, Darland Banks, Gill grammar school, David Frost, Strand, ice cream wafers...handmade...damson jam made at home, scrumping,gooseberries, Byron Road Sschool, Cubs and Scouts, St. Barnabus church, ...see more
Does anyone remember the old Brittania pub in the old high street, not the high street where it is, it was in Pier Road? I am looking for photos of it as my nan owned it.
I worked here and the manager was Mr Tremaine, good times then. The boy who worked the lights was Len Bowgen who lived at The Brook, Chatham but emigrated to America. I used to sell ice creams in the interval.
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