Who knew that memories of the Gaumont Cinema in Weymouth would generate such a response?

We've been overwhelmed by the number of Looking Back readers who have got in touch to share their memories of this iconic Weymouth venue.

A particular highlight has been Looking Back regular Alan Wolsey visiting the Echo offices to belt out the Saturday Morning Pictures anthem which was sung at the start of each show at the Gaumont.

Thanks to Alan's sharp memory, here are the lyrics to the anthem which youngsters would heartily sing before they sat down to the latest B film or Batman feature starring Adam West!

All together now...

"We come along on a Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile,

"We come along on a Saturday morning knowing it's well worth while.

"We're members of the Gaumont Club - we all intend to be,

"Good citizens when we grow up and champions of the free.

"We come along on a Saturday morning greeting everybody with a smile, smile, smile (Hands and arms opened out to each 'smile')

"Greeting everybody with a SMILE!!!" (Hands and arms raised to LONG last note).

Alan recalls: "I went to Saturday Morning Pictures from the age of eight or nine to when I was about 16. All the films had a U certificate, but I remember quite a lot of them did frighten us! They would be shown in instalments and I always remember them saying 'tune into next week's startling instalment'.

Alan watched Ben Hur in 1959, Guns of Navarro in 1961 on the wide screen and, after 1963, when his father had an advertising hoarding at the cinema, could get in for free.

He said: "I watched Lawrence of Arabia every week as a summer season. It was about three and a half hours long!"

Alan also mentioned the plush bar at the Gaumont, which his father would visit dressed in a dinner suit. That then changed to a pirate-themed bar with rum barrels which people would sit on.

Andy Hutchings, another Looking Back regular, remembers going to see the Rolling Stones and The Hollies at the Gaumont and thinks that Chubby Checker of Let's Twist Again fame may have performed there too about the same time as the Stones (1964).

"I have fond memories of the Gaumont," Andy said.

"I remember we would go in at 6.30pm and see a Randolph Scott film with an intermission in it, during which the ice cream lady would come around."

And afterwards a cinema outing would be rounded off with cod and chips from the Criterion for 1/6 and a cup of tea for six pence.

Thanks also to a Looking Back reader, who didn't wish to be named, for getting in touch and reminiscing about the days when the Gaumont was the Regent dance hall.

She said: "I always remember the days of the dance hall. The Regent always had tea dances in the afternoon and ballroom dancing in the evening. I'd be interested to know if anyone else remembers the dances there."

Another commenter on the Dorset Echo website wondered if Genesis played a gig at Weymouth Grammar School in 1971. Does anyone remember that gig?

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