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Kathleen Reeves
Kathleen Reeves

The night I saw Elvis

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Before the advent of television, cinema was a huge part of people's lives.

Cinema was such a comfort to Kathleen Reeves amid the upheavals of her early childhood that she later went on to work as an usherette to support her two small children and disabled husband during the lean years of postwar Britain.

But she couldn't believe her luck when one night, Elvis came to Longton..


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