I remember all of the buzz and and a steady flow of pictures coming over here to the U.K.

I started collecting all the pictures I could.

When the film was released here, Star Wars was everywhere. It was like every shop you went into had some sort of merchandise.

Some of the kids at school saw the film before me and had window stickers with 'I've seen Star Wars' on them.

When I went to see the film, I remember coming out of the train station and there was a huge board with the quad poster on it. The cinema was packed out. We had to wait in line all around the pavement to the back of the cinema. The front entrance to the cinema had a big stand up display of Luke,Han and the Princess. I bought the programme that was for sale. There was a support film about bike riders called 'Fast Company'.

Most of the kids at school were swapping the bubble gum cards and I managed to collect the blue and red sets. Thing is..I remember collecting the red before the blue but the blue was released first !

Star Wars played for some time at cinemas only to disappear and then come back for school holidays for a couple of weeks.

I had a nostalgia trip back to the old cinema a few years ago. It's not there anymore. A row of flats now sit in the place of the hallowed ground. Shame. Star Wars changed my life on that spot. Incredible times !