Wallasey, The Capitol, Liscard c.1960
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Memories of Wallasey, the Capitol, Liscard c1960
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I was a Drill Instructor at RAF West Kirby and my wife and I set eyes on each other at a dance for the RAF personnel at the Methodist Church Hall in Wallasey Village on Jan 23rd 1950. A week later we had our first date at the Capitol Cinema to see Orson Welles in 'The Third Man'.
Six months later we got engaged on July 23rd and on January 20th 1951 we were married in St. Johns Church in Liscard Road, Liscard. ...see more
I would come here on a Saturday morning for the matinee shows in the 1950s. I remember singing 'We are the Ovaltiners happy girls and boys'. Some time in the 1960s it became the ABC cinema and in the late 1960s it held dances every weekend. On a Friday it was heavy rock night and we would go and watch local bands such as Black Widow and Blister. I met my wife Susan here for the first time and we are ...see more
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