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Company:Reel Streets

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Information on UK locations for films made in from the 1920s to 1980s.

The author John Tunstill was born in North London in went to the Coronation cinema in the High Road of New Southgate at least once a week with his mother the cinema became a furniture showroom the programmes were changed every three days with a one day show on Sundays of old films He remembers hiding under the seats when a V a flying bomb went over cut its engine and exploded near the Standard cable works in Friern Barnet The screen flickered for a moment and the audience resumed their seats and continued to watch George Formby in one of his classics which showed the Isle of Man TT races and Douglas do you recall the title His mis-spent youth was often engaged by the offerings at his other local cinemas the Odeon and Gaumont in North Finchley and the ABC Ritz in Bounds Green all in North London

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