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The Penarth Pier Pavilion includes an art gallery, auditorium, a cinema able to seat seventy, retail area, bar, and a tea room with a view out over the Bristol Channel. Dr David Trotman, was appointed director in 2013 and said that he was excited and privileged to serve the community, and added that the "iconic pier site would be used to ...
In 1929, the pier was bought by Penarth Urban District Council, who added a new pier-head berthing pontoon, and in 1930 the current art deco pavilion was added. In 1931, a fire started in the seaward-end theatre, which, after a sea and land-based rescue, saved all 800 people on board at that time.
Theatr Gwaun is a cinema/theatre in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. Built in 1885 as a Temperance hall, it was briefly converted for use as a school in January 1895 before being converted into a cinema in the 1920s. Originally, the building was known as The Studio Cinema, a sister to the Studio Cinema in Bristol.
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Penarth Head seen from Lavernock to the south Penarth Head seen from near the Cardiff Bay Barrage. Penarth Head is a headland in Penarth on the south coast of South Wales near the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. St Augustine's Church sits on the highest point of the Head and has been used as a landmark to aid navigation for seafarers for centuries.
The site lies at the edge of Ty'n-y-ffrith, the 'house in the sheep pasture'. [2]The first theatre at the site was the Victoria Palace, which opened in July 1894. [2] It was intended to be a temporary building, [1] and it was designed as a 1,150-seat concert hall [3] for Jules Rivière (then aged 75) [2] and his 42-musician orchestra.
Penarth continued in the Pryce family ownership and there are references to a later Richard Pryce in the Manorial records in 1696. In 1710 and 1717 an Edward Powell, Gent is mentioned as living at Penarth Ucha. The Rev John Parker, (noted for his diaries and drawings of Church screens), who was Rector of Llanmerewig (1827-1844), lived here. Mr ...
Penarth Dock was a port and harbour which was located on the south bank of the mouth of the River Ely, at Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales. It opened in 1865 and reached its heyday before World War I , after which followed a slow decline until closed in 1963.