CONSIDERING all the efforts being made to try to save the Odeon Cinema at York, it was strange to read Brian Page's comments "....but don't really like going to the cinema" (Property Press, February 19).
At Tadcaster, people of my generation who lived in less affluent times, were eternally grateful for the two cinemas we had.
The Cosy Cinema (now an office block) had been converted from Lord Londesborough's town hall property. It was a little gem of a picture house so far as we children were concerned, especially the Saturday matinees with silent films and a gifted pianist to create the "atmosphere" for the action on the screen. It was magic.
Later we had the purpose-built Regal Cinema of which we were very proud.
When it was closed, and later demolished, some of us felt the heart had been removed from Tadcaster. There is still a void, an aching one.
With all its technical know-how, television will never compensate some of us at Tadcaster for the loss of our cinemas.
Ida Mary Goodrick,
Woodlands Avenue, Tadcaster.
Updated: 11:14 Saturday, February 28, 2004
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