Nottingham Castle

[Jill Sparrow 10,302]

Before he ended up at social services in Leicester.

[plantfit 7,569]

The poor bloke had a bit of a rough deal really, crooked spine, not very good looking, lost a bit of a dust up at Bosworth, written about by some bard in not a very complementary light and portrayed in a play by Richard Burton in a strange voice, you just got to feel sorry for the guy

 

 

and to top it all he had his picture taken with me

 

Rog

[Beekay 5,133]

Rog., how can you look so sophisticated in those shorts?

Were you weàring them for a bet. 

After zooming in, I'm trying to decide who has the smuggest look.

[plantfit 7,569]

Sophisticated is my middle name Barrie plus I didn't want to upstage Richard in his best armour and crown so it was shorts and baseball cap for me

 

Rog 

[Jill Sparrow 10,302]

He's a mystery. According to some, he was a murderer, a usurper and an evil hunchback.  To others, he was a saint who has been maligned and defamed.  Like most of us, the truth lies somewhere in between.  I'll bet he's bragging about having his photo taken with Rog.  "A bike, a bike. My kingdom for a bike!"

[philmayfield 6,107]

I remember going to see the film Richard 111 on a school visit to the Gaumont cinema. It was the one directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier in 1955.

[Jill Sparrow 10,302]

I have it on DVD. Olivier had great fun with the face putty, transforming his appearance. His performance on film is compelling but, apparently, nothing to the spell he cast on the audience when he originally performed the role in the theatre. I'd love to have seen it but it was before I was born.

[philmayfield 6,107]

He gave himself the facial features of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice!

[Beekay 5,133]

As kids, we were dragged to the Windsor cinema on Hartley road to see R 3rd. To me it was the most boring film I've ever seeb. What I could never understand was how the character was always talking to camera, as if he were talking to us in the stalls. We spent more time going to the bog for a smoke.

[philmayfield 6,107]

I haven’t been to the cinema for years. Apparently they’ve got talkies now and it’s in colour.

[Beekay 5,133]

Do you know Phil., that's what I heard too. Wonder if Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton are still making fillums.  

[philmayfield 6,107]

All the cinemas I used to frequent have since been demolished, the Roxy, the Curzon, the Metropole. I believe there’s one in Newark but I’ve never been. A lot of the cinemas in Notts were owned by the Levin Cinema Group. They were clients of my old accountancy firm. They used to have pop concerts at the Adelphi in Bulwell which attracted lots of girls. The manager told me that after a concert there wasn’t a dry seat in the house!