Birmingham film buff has cinema in his shed
His love of cinema started when he was just 16 back in 1943 when he was working as a projectionist at the Apollo in Erdington.
The design of that iconic picture house has now been immortalised in his back garden.
The 18ft by 9ft shed is decked out with 14 seats from a real cinema, but its 6ft 6ins by 3ft 3ins screen now has hi-tech surround sound.
Mr Parr screened Doris Day’s I’ll See You In Our Dreams at the weekend and he even offers refreshments to cinemagoers, with ice-creams available in the summer.
He said: “When we don’t fancy anything that’s on the television, I just grab a DVD and go down to the bottom of the garden.
“It’s a real blast from the past because it’s decked out in a very nostalgic way.
“I think I did it because I just love the way films can affect people when they see them, it’s just magical to watch sometimes.
“It’s very rare I actually go to the real cinema because I have this one just a few metres away from my door.
“In fact, I probably only go about once every five years - the last one I saw was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.”
