THE ALBERT HALL TRUST
                                                  
It is the aim of a number of local people in Swansea to set up a trust fund in the very near future to get the Albert Hall open again as a live entertainment complex. 
     The Trust will oversee any surveys and planning permission, liaise with the city council, keep in contact with national heritage groups and most importantly, organize the fundraising that will be needed in order for any attempt at reopening the building for public use.
     It is the aim of the trust to engage the people of Swansea and South Wales in its efforts to preserve and reopen the building.
     Nobody has stepped inside the building since a few days after it was closed as a bingo hall in March 2007.  Indeed, it was myself who was the last member of the public to be allowed inside the building just two days after it closed and was allowed by the management to take the only photographs know to exist of its auditorium!!!

     ***All the interior photos you see here of the Albert Hall were taken by me in the final weeks before closure and two days after Mecca closed the Albert Hall on 31st March 2007.

All attempts at contacting the current owners are met with total silence. The current owners are a property company, Caverwood Ltd, based in Hertfordshire. With no contact from them nobody has any idea what plans, if any, they have for the building.
    It would be a major step if we could just get permission and be allowed to see the interior to gauge any emergency work that may be needed. This would also provide an opportunity to get more photographic evidence for the history books! Just getting this permission to get inside a building like this can cost an fortune!

    To achieve even the first step of getting entry –and the several steps that follow– we need as public and civic support as possible.
    Please support our efforts in any way you feel able and willing to help us get this great building back.

   We all can begin by canvassing the support from our local councilors. If your local councilor is non–commital then refer them to the example of the Plaza cinema in Stockport, Greater Manchester. A 1932 super cinema which, just like our Albert Hall, fell into decay and disuse but has been fully and superbly restored as a major venue for conferences, concerts, private hire and cinema. If they can do it, so can we, and our Albert Hall is a much grander, more interesting and more historically important building than the Plaza!  Another great example of what can happen to the Albert hall is the incredibly successful reopening of the famous Shepherd’s Bush Empire as a a major concert venue.

Shepherds Bush Empire London. The famous Empire theatre closed as a theatre in 1965 and became a bingo hall until it was taken over by the BBC TV as a studio for shows such as The Generation Game. It returned to live entertainment in 2003.	The Plaza Cinema Stockport Greater Manchester A brillant example of an old cinema and bingo hall being brought back to full live entertainment use.
Empire Theatre Auditorium Beautifully restored in the same vein as the Albert Hall could look.	Plaza Cinema Stockport The wonderfully restored art deco auditorium of the Plaza.