Windsor Kinema
Lower Windsor Road,
Penarth,
CF64
Lower Windsor Road,
Penarth,
CF64
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The Windsor Kinema was opened in February 1914. Equipment in the projection box consisted of two GB Kalee 11 Arcs and sound heads. There was also a cafe in the cinema. It was owned and operated by the same people who owned the nearby Washington Luxury Cinema.
The Windsor Cinema was closed in May 1958.
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Editha Pearce
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Additional details and confirmed dates can be obtained from local newspapers archived locally and from several books on the history of Penarth.It is thought that the Willmore Brothers opened the Windsor Kinema some years before the date quoted, and the building is pictured in a local paper dated 1927.
The report of the sale to a garage proprietor appeared in late 1957.
Examination of the local press reveals that the Windsor Kinema was built for Oliver Willmore and his company by local builder John Britton to a design by Lennox Roberston(sic) FRIBA, with seating for 800. The opening took place on Monday 2nd February 1914.
A picture of the building (“A Magnificent Structure”) is included in the report. Large windows could be opened to admit daylight and fresh air between performances in addition to electrically driven fans.
Ticket Prices in 1914 were;-Balcony (reserved) 1/–; Fauteuils 6d ; Stalls 4d; Pit 3d.
The Willmore Brothers had operated their Windsor Cinema for a while in an old building on the site.
The closure of the Windsor Kinema in fact took place on 4th May 1958, announced a couple of days earlier in the local paper.The staff were moved to the Washington, just down the road.
The sale was reported in December 1958 and the site continues as a garage today.