Dronfield had a cinema a long, long time ago
It used to cost us two old pence to see a picture show.
Cowboy films and comedies, cartoons and pathe news
And intervals in between for us to visit the loos.
A two-hour show on weekday nights with three on Saturdays
Sunday was a day of rest when we would go to pray
And theirs many a Dronfield couple who met beneath its roof
Fell in love and married, which only goes to prove.
That when the television came and the old cinema had to go
Dronfield lost a way of life and not just a picture show.

By
Alfred Weston
© Copyright Reserved 2003

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