I also spent a lot of time at the cinemas when I was a child in the forties and early fifities, cinemas were every where, two movies and a newsreel, previews and sometimes an organ recitle at the break. girls with trays with ice cream and drinks would tour the aisles. Most ot the cinemas seemed to dissappear when tv became popular. I remember going to the Warwick on Stratford rd one winter evening to see White Christmas, with my mother, and when we came out it was snowing, I think the Warwick is still there but I think they show Bollywood movies.