I visited this cinema often. My first visit was Easter 1974. The main film was Digby. The price of a child ticket was 20p. Unaccompanied children had to sit in the front three rows of the stalls. My last visit was in the week the Palace closed in June 1977. The film was a Sinbad adventure. I forget which one.
An artical wich appeared in the South Wales Gaurdian just before the cinema was demolished in 1981, tells us.
Built in 1912 by Evan Evans the then local chemist. The opening night was a grand occasion. Lords and ladies squires and tradesmen gathered for a presentation by the Ammanford Dramatic Society of a four act play “The Middleman”.
The Palace was acquired by Mr. Hunt of Margaret Street. During his care films such as Dr. Zhivago and Enter the Dragon Packed the house. He tells the news paper, that what got him in the end was the running cost of such a big building. “Towards the end there was an evening when exactly two lads showed up for a film, the name of which is mercifully forgotten”. Mr. Hunt turned them away and shut up shop.
In June 1977 the theatre which had held the entire National Youth Orchestra and plyed to a full house went dark.
The last paragraph tells that the site after being demolished will become a temporary car park. I have not been to Ammanford for twenty years, but I belive the site is still a temporary car park.
I visited this cinema often. My first visit was Easter 1974. The main film was Digby. The price of a child ticket was 20p. Unaccompanied children had to sit in the front three rows of the stalls. My last visit was in the week the Palace closed in June 1977. The film was a Sinbad adventure. I forget which one.
An artical wich appeared in the South Wales Gaurdian just before the cinema was demolished in 1981, tells us.
Built in 1912 by Evan Evans the then local chemist. The opening night was a grand occasion. Lords and ladies squires and tradesmen gathered for a presentation by the Ammanford Dramatic Society of a four act play “The Middleman”.
The Palace was acquired by Mr. Hunt of Margaret Street. During his care films such as Dr. Zhivago and Enter the Dragon Packed the house. He tells the news paper, that what got him in the end was the running cost of such a big building. “Towards the end there was an evening when exactly two lads showed up for a film, the name of which is mercifully forgotten”. Mr. Hunt turned them away and shut up shop.
In June 1977 the theatre which had held the entire National Youth Orchestra and plyed to a full house went dark.
The last paragraph tells that the site after being demolished will become a temporary car park. I have not been to Ammanford for twenty years, but I belive the site is still a temporary car park.