Seats In All Areas - Leslie Halliwell

Halliwell is to film reference books as Roget is to thesauri, so I was expecting his memoirs to be a series of movie anecdotes. In fact, it concentrates on his childhood in 1930s Bolton (which at the time boasted forty seven cinemas) and later adventures running a picture house in partnership with a dodgy bloke with a background in haulage. It's both evocative and informative about the British film industry either side of WWII.