William Coutts was the first manager of Star to show films and in 1905 begin to turn it into a cinema. He went onto create Coutts Circuit, a chain of cinemas all over Swansea.
It’s maybe getting a new life in 2023. Proposed redevelopment of the Former Castle Cinema to provide a mixed use scheme of commercial units and Residential Apartments consisting of refurbishment, extension and associated works
William Coutts was the first manager of Star to show films and in 1905 begin to turn it into a cinema. He went onto create Coutts Circuit, a chain of cinemas all over Swansea.
It was called the News theatre in 1941 as I have a news article from March 1 1941
I guess this is the son of the music hall performer George H Snazelle? The man who gave us the word Snazzy, due to how well dressed he always was.
It’s maybe getting a new life in 2023. Proposed redevelopment of the Former Castle Cinema to provide a mixed use scheme of commercial units and Residential Apartments consisting of refurbishment, extension and associated works
https://www.asbriplanning.co.uk/statutory-pre-application-consultation/former-castle-cinema-swansea/
Coliseum Cinema was opened on Christmas eve 1913 by William Coutts. The first film shown was Psyche a coloured film from Pathe