Further memories of the cinema have been provided by Ken Durkin, he says:

"The first cinema in Pocklington was in the Victoria Hall (where Betterton Court is now) it was at the top floor where English's mill was. It was a shilling to get in and in addition a chair was 3 pennies, a stool was 2 pennies, a penny for children on a pouffe, so Jim Beckett told me, and you could stand at the back for a halfpenny. Jim Beckett's mother worked for Mr Lund (or Lunt?)  in about  1900 to 1915. She was his cashier, and he was a fairground man. All his films were shown in tents at this time, but he hired Victoria Hall  to show them in the town.  In other towns, he would get new films to show and about every 5 weeks would come back to Pocklington. He had 2 horses and carts to load his seats on. The films were 20 minutes long, and he would have about 5 reels. They were very amateur.  It was  one shilling and threepence,  one shilling and twopence and one shilling and onepence  and one shilling and halfpence for the different seats and cushions.  You could also stand at the back for a shilling. Papa Swan also told me all about this. The stage Lund (or Lunt) had built for his projector was still there in the 1980s. If you had to go to the toilet, you had to keep well down or you were in big trouble! Clare Evans got free cinema tickets from Mr  Grant,  she also said  the travelling cinema man gave her one penny a seat to carry them down to his transport and the same when he came back with new films.

The second cinema was Central Hall. The heating in there was a big round stove, and it got red hot. My mother told me the third was the Majestic owned by Allisons. It became their joiners shop (where Manor Buildings was). Central Hall belonged to Eric Lee. It held more like 250 then 400.  Then came the Oak House. It held 418 and was full on many  occasions. The queue often went round to Stubbs's in Deans Lane. Mr Robinson was a big burly ex-policeman and was the manager. There was no nonsense with him! Dorothy Richardson was on the pay desk and others who worked there included Anne Ward, Janet Hunter and her sister. Norman Craggs and Vera Kirkbride used to put chairs in the aisle to get more in. Allisons also owned 3 other cinemas at Pickering, Howden and Filey.  The oak house was open for most of the second war. Alf Allison told me it was built in about 1939/40. I worked as a projectionist at oak house."