Casinos in hillfields coventry in the 80s

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Then and now: How Broadgate has changed over the years.'And then on the Sunday they would have a separate film because of it being illegal really to run the same show on a Sunday as in the rest of the week, they had to have a separate bill on all together.' Read More Related Articles Recalling the importance of cinema in post-war Coventry, Mr Edwards, a retired languages teacher, said: 'In those days, cinemas had three changes of films in a week - they would have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday a double bill, a main film and then a B film, then Thursday, Friday, Saturday another change of film, plus the newsreel and a cartoon. Coventry had an impressive range of cinemas which later became bingo halls, temples and university buildings.

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