Bryan Morgan Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 I remember patrons in the central stalls getting soaked with rain water when the roof was opened at the interval - following a thunderstorm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Lucan Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 I saw Psycho there. I was underage and sat in the Gods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastrick Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Ah, the “gods”! A scary place for a first timer. To get to your seat it was like walking along a cliff ledge, if you looked down. I still have dreams about it! Today, they would be forced to have seat belts on those seats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa1 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 10 hours ago, trastrick said: Ah, the “gods”! A scary place for a first timer. To get to your seat it was like walking along a cliff ledge, if you looked down. I still have dreams about it! Today, they would be forced to have seat belts on those seats! Just jog my memory please, am I right in thinking the gods didn't have proper seats but they were like wooden forms or wooden steps. I seem to remember something like this but not sure if it was the Hippodrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trastrick Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) I believe you are correct. My early memories of the Hippo get mixed up with the Empire, a similar building. Amazing what those old theaters could do. I remember a circus at the Empire with lions and elephants and all. Edited January 21, 2020 by trastrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetdexter Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 What I remember about the Hippodrome was the cone shaped fire extinguishers on the wall of the long narrow corridor/ stairway leading to the gods.l think the instruction were to invert the extinguisher and strike the end I can still see them now.I don’t Romberg what I went to see or the date, just the fire extinguisher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Petre Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 On 17/01/2020 at 11:19, Bryan Morgan said: I remember patrons in the central stalls getting soaked with rain water when the roof was opened at the interval - following a thunderstorm! I recall reading once on SF from a regular of that cinema regarding when the retracting roof was opened. In the summer time to 'air' the place out, that as the roof was being opened, several pounds of old pigeon excrement was discharged onto the unsuspecting patrons below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jad279 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 I thought the Hippodrome was in Barkers pool , where Cole Brothers was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaffa1 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 2 hours ago, jad279 said: I thought the Hippodrome was in Barkers pool , where Cole Brothers was. Definitely Cambridge Street near Nel's Bar if any one remembers that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatrajah Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 I remember walking down Cambridge Street past the Hippodrome in the Summer Holidays 1962. It was still open at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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