Regent Cinema Hull - 1970s

Leaving school at 15, I started my working life as a trainee projectionist at this Hull cinema in September 1967. By the early 1970s I was 2nd projectionist there.

Here is a montage of 8mm home-movies I took over a period of time.

The wages were low, the hours were long, and I loved every minute of it. Oh, the stories I could tell . . .

The Kinemacolour Palace, as it was known then, opened on Christmas Eve, 1910. It became known as the Regent Cinema in 1919. The cinema was run by successive generations of the Freeman family until it's closure in 1978. The building was eventually sold to local boxing legend Wally Mays who turned it into a Roller Disco in 1980. Several years later the entire builing was demolished except for the frontage, which still remains, and was rebuilt as a pub-restaurant.

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