Plaza cinema, Port Talbot

The Plaza is an abandoned cinema in Port Talbot. The building is listed for protection as Grade II.[1] The cinema opened in April 1940.[2][3] It has a modern design with Art Deco influences.[2] Patrons included Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins.[4]

The Plaza

History

The cinema was built in 1939 and opened in April 1940.[2] It initially closed as a cinema in 1983 with the film Tootsie when it was converted into a bingo club.[3] It re-opened again as a cinema on 18 October 1985 with Walt Disney's Peter Pan.[3] It finally closed on 4 January 1999 after several multiplex cinemas had opened around the venue, starving the cinema of "first run" new release film product.[3]

The cinema was listed Grade II on 4 August 1999 because it was considered a very rare example in Wales of 1930s cinema architecture,[2] with an interior which was largely intact.[2]

References
  1. Howells, Roe, "Plaza Cinema, Talbot Road, Port Talbot", Cinema Treasures
  2. "Plaza Cinema". BritishListedBuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  3. "26 classic Welsh cinemas you went to as a child that aren't there now - Port Talbot, Plaza". Media Wales. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  4. Cinema reopening could threaten Port Talbot's theatre, 6 October 2015

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