I never had any Saturday Morning Matinee experience as a kid. I'm not even sure whether our local cinemas had them.

What I do remember as a kid was going to "the tenpenny place" - a high gallery in an old music hall which had been converted into a cinema. Quite excitig, with a steep row of benches rather than seats, and you felt if you got too excited you might fall over the edge.

The other thing was in those days cinemas had "continuous performance", so you could stay and watch the film through again - or come in half-way through a film, and then watch it from the beginning to work out how the story actually went. Sometimes you'd find out that the people you thought were the baddies were the goodies, and so forth. A whole diffeent way of seeing films.

And of course they also used to have double features, with a B movie. You got value for your money in those days, especially if you had only paid tenpence to get in. Ten old pence that was - 5p in modern money.