Peggy Goring
Peggy talks about the old cinemas in Woking

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You used to be able to go from the top of Goldsworth Road, and you used to walk right the way through, to where the Ritz is now and the Planets and all that kind of thing there, you used to walk right through that road. Down the other end of Goldsworth Road there used to be a stonemason’s, and then you used to get houses, and then you used to get a big Co-op, and then you go straight down almost to where the Ritz was built and opened there.

I remember going there when that first opened, and they had about a three-hour program with live entertainment, and plus two films. And I always remember the first film they had there was Texas Rangers. And it used to be the first row, right in the front was threepence, old money. Three hours when they opened, yeah, it was real entertainment on the stage as well as the two films, and the news, and what was coming next week. There used to be singers, and dancers, and everything yeah.

And in Duke Street they had the Odeon, which first, when it was built, was called the Astoria, and then they had, they had an organ in there. And then the oldest one, which was down further, it was an old place I must admit, and it was called the Plaza. Very, very old it was, because I remember going there and I mean if you moved in the seat the whole row would move, do you know what I mean?