Extract from one of Mr Aspden's letters
Raymond Aspden of Accrington, Lancashire contacted Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain during 1995 in response to an article about the project in a local newspaper. Born in Blackburn in 1923, he finished his fulltime education at the age of fourteen and took up a job in the Compositing Department of the Northern Daily Telegraph. In later years he worked in a range of roles including a 4½ year stint in the Army. In a long letter he tells of a memorable early cinema visit, describes some of the cinemas in his home town and recalls attending Saturday matinees with groups of friends: “The thirties was a magical age for the silver screen,” he writes. Later in 1995, Mr Aspden took part in CCINTB’s postal questionnaire survey.