Friday, 16 May 2008

Merlin's

JUST  'yonder' of the traffic lights on King Street/Fieldside, Thorne stands what was, to my parents, 'the old picture house' or cinema.
Quite how cool it would be to watch the new Indiana Jones movie in there in its present state is debatable. 
The ticket office would equip each audience member with a shroud of spiders' webs. 
And if they should need to pee as the film rolls, they would have to queue for the toilet in the 'car park' at a row of smashed and stinking p*sspots!

The fact is that the former cinema building on Fieldside, Thorne, which briefly became the teenage hormone-fest 90s nightspot that was 'Merlins' is now (and has been for some time) a 'From Dusk 'till Dawn-style' greyed-out block of nothingness with a crappy stadium-style protective fence across its front, which has surprisingly secluded four old toilet bowls from the eye of the vandal for the past three years!.

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