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[…]eally quite interesting, we of course, as independent salesmen had nothing to do with the Odeon cinemas on our territory, or indeed what was then the ABC chain. They were the only chains existing in those days. There was a company called Essoldo and anybody that had more than about 20 cinemas was co[…]

[…]the 50’s?EB: Yes. The O’Connor brothers, they had several cinemas in South London, and when they saw risk coming in they decided to sell out. I think ABC bought 1 or 2 of them, The Regal, Kennington, was one of them. I played there several times for them, did odd weeks. They went to South Africa, th[…]