"Coming up roses" - Welsh cinema in decline ...

[davesgcr]

Another youtube gem - Welsh medium film with subtitles , low budget (!) - about the community and its efforts to save the local flicks. In 4 parts.

Very local ! - and with such idiomatic slang - it is a pleasure "dim clem" - no idea , "crottyn" (a slipof a girl"

Highly recommended if you recall the last days of the Welsh local picture house. Fond memories of the Palace Cinema , Ammanford , - which could have been this place.

 

[Pickman's model]

Another youtube gem - Welsh medium film with subtitles , low budget (!) - about the community and its efforts to save the local flicks. In 4 parts.

Very local ! - and with such idiomatic slang - it is a pleasure "dim clem" - no idea , "crottyn" (a slipof a girl"

Highly recommended if you recall the last days of the Welsh local picture house. Fond memories of the Palace Cinema , Ammanford , - which could have been this place.

seems to me you mean welsh cinemas rather than welsh cinema.

 

[davesgcr]

seems to me you mean welsh cinemas rather than welsh cinema.

Indeed - a lost part of the community - apologies - (amazingly saw this for the first time in SW London on release).........there are a few noble survivors - such as the Public Hall , Brynamman. A gem , unchanged since I first knew it. Had a few relatives who were "usherettes" (sic) in the glory days of the 1940's to the early 1960's.

 

[rhod]

Aberdare Council still knocked the fucking place down, so that they could have a nice car park within walking distance of their offices.

It's really criminal that the entrance foyer, at least, wasn't preserved.

But what could you expect from a Council planning department that allowed a perfect example of a miner's cottage (with plaque commemorating a visit by the King and Queen in 1912) to be ripped out and turned into a toilet extension for the workingmans' club next door?