Marvellous. I'm bookmarking all these websites for later research purposes (or idle mucking around). I also really want to write a romance about a cinema projectionist falling in love with an usherette in the 1940s.
Thanks so much for the write-up Matt. Hope anyone new to the Memory Palaces site enjoys it and perhaps see some of you on a walking tour before too long.
How funny to read "my grandfather Brown was a projectionist, and met my usherette grandmother between the reels" . Resonates with me as my Dad was the projectionist at the ABC Cinema Kensal Rise when he met my userette Mother. As well as being an usherette she also sold the ice creams during the interval. Before they became 'an item' he used to shine a bright green light on her which made her look like a ghoul. He thought it was funny and she thought he was too big for his boots! The rest is history❤
Ha, brilliant. And funnily enough, I got an email from a third person whose aunt and uncle had met in identical circumstances in Wimbledon. Sounds like projectionist-usherette couplings were quite common.
Marvellous. I'm bookmarking all these websites for later research purposes (or idle mucking around). I also really want to write a romance about a cinema projectionist falling in love with an usherette in the 1940s.
Thanks so much for the write-up Matt. Hope anyone new to the Memory Palaces site enjoys it and perhaps see some of you on a walking tour before too long.
How funny to read "my grandfather Brown was a projectionist, and met my usherette grandmother between the reels" . Resonates with me as my Dad was the projectionist at the ABC Cinema Kensal Rise when he met my userette Mother. As well as being an usherette she also sold the ice creams during the interval. Before they became 'an item' he used to shine a bright green light on her which made her look like a ghoul. He thought it was funny and she thought he was too big for his boots! The rest is history❤
Ha, brilliant. And funnily enough, I got an email from a third person whose aunt and uncle had met in identical circumstances in Wimbledon. Sounds like projectionist-usherette couplings were quite common.
The link to London Lives takes me to the Old Bailey site; is anyone else having that issue?
Sorry about that Clint. My bad. I've fixed the link.
Thank you, sir; the old one remains in the email of course, but the Substack one works perfectly.