Oooh I just loved looking at the cinema photos .......the Piccadilly in Sparkhill and the Sheldon in particular.
My parents actually met at the Sheldon cinema and also used to go the Adelphi on the Coventry Road, which they nicknamed 'The Unhealthy'.
Does anyone remember the Olton cinema (next door to what used to be the Golden Arrow pub) .
and also 'The Tivoli' at the Swan? I went there on my very first every cinema trip when I was about 4.
I was a projectionist at the Sheldon in 1961- a wonderful building, however the Kalee projectors were out of the Ark and a pig to keep right. All your other cinema's and others, such as Solihull, Tivoli, Adelphi, Coronet, Grange, Kingston, Green Lane, Beaufort, Atlas, Capitol, Ritz, Olton, Acocks Green, Royalty (Harborne) Rock, Aston Cross, Futurist, Gaumont, Odeon, West End, (worked at News Theatre and Tatler ) and Godiva Coventry, etc., etc. Indeed in 1960 the Birmingham Mail carried programme listings for forty cinema's in the Birmingham area, now, well probably a handful??