Empire Theatre

Barry Island, South Glamorgan, Wales

Harbour Road

, Barry Island, South Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom CF62

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Status:	Closed/Demolished
Screens:	Single Screen
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	Unknown
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Unknown

Located at the rear of Barry Railway Station. Billy Butlin opened a holiday camp at Barry Island in 1966 which contained an Empire Theatre equipped for films. Butlins Holiday Camps offered an 'all inclusive' holiday, which included, acommodation, food and all entertainment.

In 1970 the camp started issuing day admission tickets to day-trippers, which included access to the cinema. This caused quite an uproar from the Barry Town cinema proprietors.

Later the cinema was converted to a coffee bar and amusement arcade. The camp was closed in 1996 and demolished in 2005

Contributed by Editha Pearce

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This was one of the few cinemas equipped with Bell and Howell projectors.

posted by Editha Pearce on Nov 7, 2009 at 9:36pm

The holiday camp site was sold for £2.25m to Vale of Glamorgan Council, in October 1997, who demolished the camp and sold it to Bovis Homes for housing development. Now known as Bryn Llongwr, two, three, four and five bedroom houses were built on the site between 2002 and 2003

posted by Editha Pearce on Nov 8, 2009 at 3:52pm

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