In the 1990s, hundreds of men and women from all over Britain told researchers about their past cinemagoing lives in interviews, questionnaires, letters, and essays as part of a research project called ‘Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain’. Because of its rapid population growth and cinema provision during these years, the London suburb of Harrow was chosen as a location for fieldwork, and eighteen people living in the area took part in depth interviews, offering up vivid, entertaining, and sometimes intriguing memories of their younger lives and leisure pursuits.