Plaza Cinema
100 Commercial Road,
Newport,
NP20 2GX
100 Commercial Road,
Newport,
NP20 2GX
No one has favorited this theater yet
Additional Info
Previous Names: Pil Electric Palace, Tivoli Cinema, Astoria Cinema
Nearby Theaters
Located in Newport, Gwent (previously Monmouthshire), South Wales. The Pil Electric Palace was opened in 1911. It initially had 350-seats and was a rather plain building. By 1932 it had been equipped with a British Thomson-Houston (BTH) sound system and it was renamed Tivoli Cinema. It also had a new facade and entrance foyer and the seating capacity was increased to 830-seats. At the end of the 1930’s it was renamed Plaza Cinema. It had a 25ft wide proscenium. In 1948 it was renamed Astoria Cinema, but by 1950 it had been taken over by Icra Cinemas Ltd. of Cardiff and went back to the Plaza Cinema name. It was still open in 1954, but had closed by 1958.
The building became a DIY hardware store which was still in use in 1994. It had been demolished by 2008 and housing had been built on the site.
Contributed by
Ken Roe
Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater?
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater.
Recent comments (view all 1 comments)
The Plaza Cinema most likely closed on November 21, 1956 with “A Kid From Two Farthings” and “Forever My Heart”. Its cause of closure wasn’t revealed until mid-January 1957 when the staff told the South Wales Argus that it was due to the “television popularity and estate issues”, meaning that the Plaza became a television victim.