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Offline DaveR

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Re: Alex Munro & Live Entertainment in Llandudno
« Reply #30 on: November 14, 2010, 09:31:02 am »
I wasn't even born then Ian.  :-[
Just.  :D  ;)  :laugh:

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« Reply #32 on: November 17, 2010, 08:33:29 pm »
The 'Red Aces' performing in Happy Valley in 1945:
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« Reply #33 on: November 21, 2010, 05:55:01 pm »
Advert for the reopening of the Happy Valley Theatre on June 3rd 1933, after the previous building was destroyed by fire in an arson attack:

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Re: Alex Munro & Live Entertainment in Llandudno
« Reply #34 on: November 23, 2010, 12:00:15 am »
It seems to me that Llandudno has had more than its fair share of arson attacks.
Ivor Wynne Jones's book is replete with such incidents.
Many great edifices have been lost.

In the 1970's, an Irishman apparently tried to burn down The Grand Hotel ... TWICE !!!

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Re: Alex Munro & Live Entertainment in Llandudno
« Reply #35 on: November 23, 2010, 04:17:14 am »
It seems to me that Llandudno has had more than its fair share of arson attacks.
Ivor Wynne Jones's book is replete with such incidents.
Many great edifices have been lost.

In the 1970's, an Irishman apparently tried to burn down The Grand Hotel ... TWICE !!!



Oh! dear! Fester, I always wondered where all the UK arsonists were hiding!  Don

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Re: Alex Munro & Live Entertainment in Llandudno
« Reply #36 on: November 23, 2010, 09:26:07 pm »
The Princes Cinema (now HMV), Mostyn Street, goes up for sale in the 1950s. Who knew that Charlie Chaplin performed there when it was the St. George's Hall?  :o

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« Reply #37 on: January 18, 2011, 09:21:12 pm »
An interview with Alex Munro, featuring many shots of the pier, pierhead pavilion and pier pavilion:

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« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2011, 10:02:28 pm »
An interview with Alex Munro, featuring many shots of the pier, pierhead pavilion and pier pavilion:

Alex Munro Llandudno Interview.avi

brilliant, some spooky sounds on there! I remember the tram attendents wearing those brown cowgowns and its a shame the old poles on the trams for the telephones have gone, progress I suppose!
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« Reply #39 on: January 25, 2011, 05:24:29 pm »
I think this is a fantastic image, Alex defiantly promoting his show against the backdrop of a crumbling Grand Theatre. Dates from the late 1970s, I believe.

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Re: Alex Munro & Live Entertainment in Llandudno
« Reply #40 on: January 27, 2011, 04:42:40 am »
Alex used to drive a cream coloured Commer caravanette, similar to this one pictured below. He had it serviced regularly next-door to the Grand Theatre at L.S.P. Motors.

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Re: Alex Munro & Live Entertainment in Llandudno
« Reply #41 on: January 27, 2011, 08:22:45 am »
I have some pics of the actual Munromobile, which I will stick up when I get a min.   8)

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« Reply #42 on: January 27, 2011, 01:30:42 pm »
Nice little feature about Alex Munro in the Weekly News today.

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« Reply #43 on: January 27, 2011, 02:06:24 pm »
Nice little feature about Alex Munro in the Weekly News today.

I've just read it, very nice to see and I noticed at the bottom 'thanks to Three Towns Blog  &well&
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Re: Alex Munro & Live Entertainment in Llandudno
« Reply #44 on: January 27, 2011, 10:16:37 pm »
Here's the pic of Alex's Commer caravanette putside the Grand Theatre:

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