25 June 2012
Alan Ashton writes
Former BBC Radio broadcaster and current journalist responds to reader's letter
Alan Ashton, one of Britain's most well known personalities on cinemas and cinema organs, has responded to a letter sent in by the daughter of the man responsible for the building of Neath Empire, Vincent Snow, one of the seven sons of the famous builder W H Snow. Vincent Snow (right) was only 26 years of age at the time the Empire was being built - it was his first big contract.
Alan Ashton (left) has produced many cinema organ based videos on his Gram-r-fone YouTube video channel and is a collector of cinema memorabilia. He was wondering if the family of W H Snow had any souvenir programmes of the opening of the cinema in 1926.