The Flicks

A Memory of Hoddesdon.

This is the first cinema I ever went to! I even went to see 'The Circus of Horrors' X-rated film here, I was smuggled in by my mum and her friend Long Lil (Lillian Smith), it's ok, I've had no real side effects from it, ha ha. I think I was between 6-8 years old. I remember I had to hide under Lil's coat (it had a flare type bottom) and Mum and Lil walked in from the ticket booth arm in arm, into the darkened cinema. How funny it must have been, you couldn't get away with it now. Ahhh, the good ol' days. I would love to live from anyone who lived or stayed at the Glen Faba or Riverside.