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PULSELOOKING BACK
Words: Stephanie Burns
MOVIE MEMORIES
Were you among the audiences at Ecclesfield’s long-gone cinema? his month’s photograph is by Cyril Slinn and is taken from Around Sheffield Then & Now by Geoffrey Howse. It depicts Ecclesfield Cinema and The Arundel Arms at the end of Church Street in 1925. The cinema, which seated an audience of 685, was built in 1920 by Michael J. Gleeson and opened the following June. Besides its closure between 1930 and 1932, at which point it reopened with sound, it remained in operation until 1959. If you have any memories of Ecclesfield Cinema that you would like to share, please get in touch. Call Stephanie Burns on 0114 250 6300 or email Stephanie.Burns@ regionalmagazine.co.uk and we will print your comments in the next issue. We would also like to receive your old pictures for Looking Back. If you have any that you would like to share, please send them, along with your name and a short description of the photograph, to Pulse Looking Back, 6 Broadfield Court, Broadfield Business Park, Sheffield S8 0XF. Or you can email them to Stephanie.Burns @regionalmagazine.co.uk. If you would like us to return your photographs, please include your address with the images and we will be happy to post them back.
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More recollections of Ecclesfield Grammar School Lynda Almgill (nee Hewling) got in touch after her Ecclesfield-based cousin sent her the November issue of Pulse to say that she and her husband Chris attended the school in 1960 and could recognise some of the teachers. They agreed that the lady behind the head master is geography teacher Silvia Douglas and next to her is Miss Gregory (domestic science). They also identified the last unnamed lady (fifth from right on the second row) as domestic science teacher Cora Bircher. We also received an email from Margaret Tracey, who believed the teacher third from left on the back row, who had been identified as geography teacher Mr Hymers by David Frisby in the December issue, was in fact Mr Malham (Latin). Margaret also identified the unnamed teacher on the far right of the third row as Mr Uttley (maths) and agreed that fourth from right on the third row was Mr Dungworth, who taught languages.
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