Regent Cinema
26 Newton Road,
Oystermouth, Mumbles,
Swansea,
SA3 4BD
26 Newton Road,
Oystermouth, Mumbles,
Swansea,
SA3 4BD
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Additional Info
Functions: Nightclub
Styles: Neo-Classical
Previous Names: New Cinema
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Located in the Mumbles/Oystermouth district, about 10 minutes out of Swansea. The New Cinema was opened in 1927. It was soon renamed Regent Cinema, and was still operating in 1937, but had closed by 1939 after the new Tivoli Picture Theatre had opened.
The building was then used for storage, the by the Home Guard during World War II. Later used as a nightclub/restaurant, it became a bingo club in the early-1960’s, then returned to nightclub/disco use by the mid-1960’s.
In 2009, the building was in retail use as an indoor shopping arcade, known as Castleton Walk. By early 2023 it was back in use as a nightclub.
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Ken Roe
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I believe that MumblesMatters is mistaken, and may be confusing the New Cinema (later the Regent) with the Tivoli cinema which was nearer the seafront, with its facade still surviving as part of the Coop supermarket. The photo does indeed show the location of the Regent in what is now Castleton Arcade. The highly-decorated interior ceiling of the Regent is still visible in the CUs entertainment venue within the arcade (check CU’s website). After use as a cinema ended a floor was constructed at the level of the old circle to create two levels in the auditorium, and CUs occupies the top floor. There is a bar counter just where the old circle seats would have started.
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.
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