This is a bit of a confusingly-titled page, but we have a growing amount of material on what Durnanites did for entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s & 70s. This is a contents page for that material.

The Lido is gone!!

• Gerald Buttigieg's original page.
• Gerald Buttigieg's big interesting page.
• Dodo's page - more stuff added 11 November 2007.
• Rose Enstrom's Page
• The way we were - a page of bits and pieces from Gerald, Dodo and others.
• Neil Gould's Page - 70s nightlife and other memories.

• More on the Little Top - See also Dodo's page for pix of the Little Top tent and Tim Pullen's page for more details..

Undated picture of the Little Top courtesy Mike Osborne
Click to enlarge.

• Beaches, bioscope and milkshakes by John Taylor
• Umbilo Drive-Inn by GM Enerson
• Durban Memoires Gastronomique 1967 - 1993 By Dave Baird
• Watering holes by John Taylor
• The central Cinemas - Jenny Pache / John Taylor
• 1950s & 60s memories - By Glynnis
• Cinemas page 1
• Cinemas page 2

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Aerial shots of the beachfront. The rectangular building with the squared-off roof, shown in both, was apparently the Arundel Tearoom. The right-hand picture is dated 1949 and the other is from quite a bit earlier than that.
Pictures courtesy Arthur Gammage. Click to view enlargements.

• Miniature train and paddlesteamer - Gerald Buttigieg
• Cookie Look and Rock 'n Roll - Allan Jackson and contributors.
• Cookie Look and the Rock n Roll Scene - Brian Milner-Smyth
• Memories of a Montclair Boy - Dave Phillips.
• Memories of the Mermaid Lido - Patrick Button
• Out and about in the 1970s - Allan Jackson
• The International Arts League of Youth
• Remiscences from Tim Pullen - beachfront.
• Going to town - John Taylor
• Watering holes of my youth - David Baird

Courtesy Etienne Du Plessis - Beachfront 1953

• Kenilworth

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The Kenilworth Amusement Arcade. Barbara Maude-Stone writes that the Kenilworth was next to the Rachel Finlayson swimming pool and owned by the Newton family. Barbara's mother worked there on the darts stall in the evening and, she says, the building must have been demolished in about 1970. Hopefully we'll get more information on the building, and the Newtons Amusement Park, in time. <== Click for enlargement. See here for another postcard of the building. Postcard courtesy Barbara Maude-Stone

• A page of pictures sent in by Trevor Friend of the motorboat pond, Caves of Terror, go-kart track, Vintage Car Ride & Kenilworth Centre.

• Cuban Hat and Nest Restaurant page. - more pics added 11 November 2007.

• Sport - The page of the two King's Parks
• Sport - St Henry's first soccer team - Playing at Lords Ground