Newcastle Upon Tyne

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SWEET SIXTEEN

Memories of First Dates


When I was young and very green! , no let’s say not worldly wise! Even know I could die with embarrassment looking back on my attempts to emulate the big screen stars.

My Dad owned a lot of cinemas and naturally I spent a lot of time in them, so learning how it was done (kissing that is!) The first kiss I had makes me still cringe, I spent 2 minutes kissing her bottom lip and chin before I realized I was in the wrong place, the next one I kissed I thought she was going to be ill when lips glued together she opened her mouth I panicked and ran off as I ...read more here
Contributed by DAVID HINGE

ON BEING A CINEMA OR THEATRE MANAGER

ON BEING A CINEMA & THEATRE MANAGER!        

Having written the last blog on Children’s Matinees so many memories flitted through my brain, so I had to write them down! And no doubt I shall add to them over the weeks.

Going back to the old Corona at Felling, I just remembered that I was very young fresh out of the Navy and full of my own importance! And didn’t know anything! My first day there was hard to forget, I went into the stalls and walked down towards the stage and this cleaner called Annie came out of the toilet she had been cleaning and shouted at me to get off her still wet mopped floor, ...read more here
Contributed by DAVID HINGE

THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE

THE SATURDAY MORNING MATINEE!!!!

Of course you remember it……… well most of us do!!!
It all seems so long ago now! but its beginning to drift up from the fog of ‘times gone by’ Hot and damp and steaming gently in the heat of the old Globe cinema at Gosforth, (you sold more drinks and ice cream if you kept it very hot!) from the rain sitting there with our knees under chins and feet on the seat with sweaters pulled up to our eyes and pulled down over our knees so we looked like rows of strange beasts ...read more here
Contributed by DAVID HINGE

SWEET SIXTEEN

Memories of First Dates


When I was young and very green! , no let’s say not worldly wise! Even know I could die with embarrassment looking back on my attempts to emulate the big screen stars.

My Dad owned a lot of cinemas and naturally I spent a lot of time in them, so learning how it was done (kissing that is!) The first kiss I had makes me still cringe, I spent 2 minutes kissing her bottom lip and chin before I realized I was in the wrong place, the next one I kissed I thought she was going to be ill when lips glued together she opened her mouth I panicked and ran off as I ...read more here
A memory of Newcastle Upon Tyne contributed by DAVID HINGE