at last a light ..........

I have been browsing that old memories of Brum website of late and then found a similar one.  Among the old photos on this other site were several of the inside of the old Beaufort Cinema.
You recall my earlier post about the Phantom of the Opera coming to our local theatre - well! it's not playing on my mind ............ not at all!  lol
I would dearly love to go and don't understand why I have this fear.
Looking at the photos made me realise that my surroundings couldn't have helped me at the time.  I was about 9 or ten remember and never having been to this cinema before.

Here is the old cinema,

now see what I have found - think Phantom in scary black and white (not colour and beautiful songs with a bit of comedy thrown in to lighten the tension - oh! no! scary!) and then coming out into this

this is the inside entrance from where you either went through the doors at the back for the stalls, or climb the stairs for the circle.

The stairs and balcony

you had to pass this lion on your way up the stairs.

I REST MY CASE!!