Llandudno Pier & Pavilion - Old Photos & Memories

[Tosh]

The photos are over 80 years old, don't expect miracles.
The poor soul taking the shots was probably in an open cockpit freezing to death.

[Blodyn]

Jacko, thanks very much for the link to those old aerial photos - they're fantastic! 

[DaveR]

The good old days...

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[Gwynant]

              After just seeing at your last posting of the Pier and Pavilion, Dave. R. and also the one of Arthur Askey in answer to Romanjohn's question recently I was wondering if you had anything in your archives on "Twinkle", a seaside revue produced by Clarkson Rose and Olive Fox and which used to play the Pavilion regularly in the late 40s and early 50s and included my father who was the company comedian who was known as Rupert Rogers.
         I can remember the show's title "Twinkle" being displayed in lights across the front of the Pavilion at night and I have been given a few programmes from various people in the town over the years but no posters etc.

[DaveR]

Here's everything I have, no mention of your father though that I can see, sadly.

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[Gwynant]

                              
                 Thanks very much Dave.R. for your reply and cuttings. I have read through them and I found my fa $ther mentioned in the last article, (the bottom square one), in the last paragraph after "in the 25th year such a grand team as:- Eddie Childs. Rupert Rogers etc". I have some programmes but they were from the 50s. Thanks very much again.

[Bri Roberts]

  Y^^Y 

[Merddin Emrys]

from an old guide book, probably Sixties

[DaveR]

You can see the large wooden mast (for want of a better word) at the end of the Pier by the Landing Stage that they used to fly flags on. That disappeared sometime in the 1990s, I think.

[DaveR]

LLANDUDNO PIER - FINANCIAL RESULTS 1895
North Wales Journal - 16 January 1896

The year 1895 was the most successful season for many years at Llandudno Pier and Pavilion. There was a gross revenue of £12,510 14s, 11d., an increase of £ 2,264 19s, 11d upon 1894; whilst the working expenses show an increase of only £ 159 10s 2d. The profit on the year's working is £ 4,266, 4s, 10d. as compared with £ 2,260,15s 1d. in 1894. The total sum available for dividend is £ 4,607, 10s, 4d. The directors recommend 12½ per cent dividend; that £1,000 borrowed from the reserve fund in 1895 be repaid and that £989 10s 4d be carried for-ward for future expenses. Before next season the pier-head is to be enlarged and the landing-stage farther improved, and a verandah balcony will be erected on the sea side of the Pavilion for promenading at the evening concerts.

[DaveR]

LLANDUDNO - PIER PAVILION CONCERTS
25 October 1900

Mr A. E. Bartle, for a number of years conductor of the Pier Pavilion Grand Orchestra at Llandudno, has resigned the appointment, and the directors "have engaged Mr Arthur Payne, leader and sub-conductor of the Queen's Hall Orchestra, Langham Place, London. Mr Payne is well known in Llandudno, having at one time acted as leader for Mr Riviere when the latter presided over the Llandudno pier concerts.

[DaveR]

LLANDUDNO - THE PIER REFRESHMENT ROOM
8 March 1878

The contract for the refreshment room at the end of the new pier has been let for £130 to Mr. George Brookes, chemist, of Mostyn street. Other tenders were £ 125 from Mr. Clay, Baths Hotel, £ 120 each. from Mr. Crockatt and another, and £110 from Mr. Parsons, Edgbaston Hotel. In all, eleven persons tendered.

[DaveR]

NEW PROMENADE PIER FOR LLANDUDNO.
Saturday 16 September 1876

The first pile of a new promenade pier, which is to be erected at a cost of £ 30,000, was driven at Llandudno to-day by Lord Arthur Trevor, M.P.

[DaveR]

North Wales Journal - 27 December 1901

The old swimming bath in the basement of Llandudno Pier Pavilion having been filled up with the debris from the foundations of the new Grand Hotel, the directors have had the space levelled and asphalted, and the walls are being lined throughout with white glazed bricks. Electric light fittings are installed, and the result is a hall for entertainments, fancy fairs, etc of extra- ordinary dimensions. If the Company could see their way to providing for this hall and the pavilion overhead a hot-water heating system on modern lines, with ample radiators near the entrances, to prevent the terrible draughts now experienced, the two places of assembly would be rendered much more useful for all public purposes in cold weather.

[DaveR]

North Wales Journal - 21 June 1895

An exciting scene was witnessed at Llandudno Pier on Saturday night when the St. Tudno steamer was being moored alongside to disembark passengers, of whom there were a large number on board. Two of the number by some means or other got entangled in the ropes which were being thrown ashore, and were carried overboard. One of them could swim, and managed to keep himself afloat. The second was not a swimmer, and was in an extremely perilous position, when Mr. John I Roberts, the piermaster, jumped from the pierhead and held him up until assistance arrived. Mr. Roberts, who has before been instrumental in saving life, was loudly cheered for his gallant rescue, and it is understood that steps will be taken to bring it under the notice of the Royal Humane Society.