Picture Palaces Of Swansea.
The Castle Cinema, later known as the Filmcenta.
The Castle Cinema Swansea.The Castle Cinema sits on Worcester Place. It opened on 14th Dec 1913. It played major movies, including soft porn in the the 70,right through until the mid 80's. It is now a lazer theme park. It was badly damaged by fire in 1927 and again in the blitz of 1944. A refit in 1962 saw the last of the old auditorium though the foyer area is now listed. | The Castle Cinema.The very deep auditorium that had a small circle of 4 rows. The Castle also had the famous 'love seats' in the last two rows of the stalls. This is pretty much how it looked from its 1962 refit to its closing day as a cinema. | | | | |
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