This photo shows the rear door of the building when it was an Amusement Centre.
This led to a car park and the Mumbles Promenade, which before it closed in January 1960, was the site of the famous Swansea and Mumbles Railway.
The Cinema, in Newton Road, Mumbles near Swansea, which had opened in 1927, had some success and then closed on the outbreak of The Second World War,along with all other places of entertainment. Many soon reopened, when the properganda value of such places, which included Theatures, was appreciated.
The former Regent Cinema was requisitioned, cleaned out and stripped bare and became it soon became the HQ of C’ Company, of 12th Battalion, Home Guard, initially called the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV).
Postwar it reopened as The Casino Dance Hall, then after many years the building was rebuilt with a Arcade downstairs and a nightclub on a new floor, upstairs. became a well-known venue under a succession of different names, these included
The Showboat, Tiffany’s, Nutz, Stud’s, Howard’s and Bentley’s.
Later it was: Cafe Play by Night and after the lockdown, has reopened as CU Mumbles, Nightclub and Venue
At last the incorrect photo has been removed, for the photo of the building taken by myself, when it was Castleton Walk, where I owned a shop, Granary Health Foods, in 1984.
In 2015, a major new development was begun on the site of the Tivoli Cinema, which was rebuilt in 1930s on the site of The Kursaal Entertainments Hall and the (New) Mumbles Cinema. (Note confusion is caused as Mumbles has had two ‘New’ Cinemas).
Known as the ‘Tiv’, it is fondly remembered by many of us, who patronised it in the 1940s and 1950s and by the younger generation who remember it as an amusement centre.
In the near future, the site will take on another guise, which will be known as The Oyster Wharf.
This photo is not the Regent Cinema, Newton Road, Mumbles.
It is The Mumbles Cinema, Mumbles Road, Mumbles, Swansea, before it was rebuilt as The Tivoli Cinema, around 1939.
This photo shows the rear door of the building when it was an Amusement Centre. This led to a car park and the Mumbles Promenade, which before it closed in January 1960, was the site of the famous Swansea and Mumbles Railway.
The Cinema, in Newton Road, Mumbles near Swansea, which had opened in 1927, had some success and then closed on the outbreak of The Second World War,along with all other places of entertainment. Many soon reopened, when the properganda value of such places, which included Theatures, was appreciated. The former Regent Cinema was requisitioned, cleaned out and stripped bare and became it soon became the HQ of C’ Company, of 12th Battalion, Home Guard, initially called the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV). Postwar it reopened as The Casino Dance Hall, then after many years the building was rebuilt with a Arcade downstairs and a nightclub on a new floor, upstairs. became a well-known venue under a succession of different names, these included The Showboat, Tiffany’s, Nutz, Stud’s, Howard’s and Bentley’s. Later it was: Cafe Play by Night and after the lockdown, has reopened as CU Mumbles, Nightclub and Venue
At last the incorrect photo has been removed, for the photo of the building taken by myself, when it was Castleton Walk, where I owned a shop, Granary Health Foods, in 1984.
In 2015, a major new development was begun on the site of the Tivoli Cinema, which was rebuilt in 1930s on the site of The Kursaal Entertainments Hall and the (New) Mumbles Cinema. (Note confusion is caused as Mumbles has had two ‘New’ Cinemas).
Known as the ‘Tiv’, it is fondly remembered by many of us, who patronised it in the 1940s and 1950s and by the younger generation who remember it as an amusement centre. In the near future, the site will take on another guise, which will be known as The Oyster Wharf.
This photo is not the Regent Cinema, Newton Road, Mumbles. It is The Mumbles Cinema, Mumbles Road, Mumbles, Swansea, before it was rebuilt as The Tivoli Cinema, around 1939.