Cinemas and Music around Richmond – by DM

Oh yes, cinemas, yes, yes a gang of us, a crowd of us, of course as lads, we always used to go.  Richmond was a great place. I can remember as a teenager going there.  Where Nandos is at the moment that was called L’Auberge Coffee Bar and I sat there one evening drinking coffee making it last as long as I could and I looked and its Billy Fury! and I said “eh its Billy Fury and no it, yes it is, its Billy Fury”. (laughter) I seemed to miss out on Mick Jagger and Eel Pie Island.  I don’t know why that passed me by. I think I’d moved away by that time.  I think I’d got too old by that time.  I’d gone and lived elsewhere, that’s what happened at the time.  But we went to the Odeon cinema in Richmond, of course, which was one cinema, most weeks we went or we went to the Granada in Kingston, entertainment there. Didn’t seem to… Kingston Kinema , the old flea pit there.  We never went in there we always said “eugh flea pit don’t go in there, horrible place”.