Carlton Cinema - Oxford Street - Swansea, Wales.
N 51° 37.198 W 003° 56.841
30U E 434415 N 5719196
Carlton Cinema 1914 to 1977. Now a Waterstone's bookstore. The Cinema has a very beautiful facade with a large bay glass windows. Towers crown each side, and many relief sculptures cover the front facade. The Carlton is a grade II Listed Building.
Waymark Code: WMF707
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/03/2012
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"Situated on Swansea’s Oxford Sreet, next door to the now demolished Empire Theatre, the theatre opened as the Carlton Cinema de Luxe on 31st January 1914. The Carlton Cinema which contain a very ornate staircase. This leads to the Carlton cafe which was a very popular meeting place in its heyday. The facade has now been cleaned up and looks very impressive. All this is a shame now being that everything behind the stairwell has been demolished.
The Carlton Cinema was closed by the Rank Organisation on 29th October 1977 and remained dark until the auditorium was demolished and replaced by a large
bookstore (Waterstone’s). During this time the building had been Listed Grade II and the retained facade still has this status.
The opening of the bookstore saw the stairwell opened up to access the second floor shop, the first time the area had been seen since the 1950’s. During its last 10-15 years, the cinema was accessed by a narrow corridor with a small box office at the street then a kiosk halfway down. The circle area was unused for many years before the closure". Text Source: (
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