The Orion Cinema
A Memory of Midhurst.
My grandmother, Violet Bowden, worked as a usherette at the Orion. I used to love the Saturday afternoon matinee shows that gave sweets as prizes.
Towards the end of the cinemas time my friend Robert Constable and I were watching a film when the manager asked us if we would mind coming back another day as we were the only customers and he wanted to close!!
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My mother and father lived at Iping and Stedham just outside Midhurst. I'm trying to find out if Midhurst had a cinema around the start of the second world war. I am writing a capstone story which involves my Uncle Fred who died retreating towards Dunkirk saving a whole village from the German advance. Their (Four of them) Bren Gun Carrier was destroyed from the first shell that landed from a German 'tank' positioned on the next hill to the village in Belgium. He was a very brave man along with his comrades, to think of saving a village full of strangers, rather than save his and theirs, own skin.
I'd be grateful for any help
Kindest regards
George Hickman