This very imposing cinema building on Talbot Road opened at Easter 25th March 1940. It looks like a typical ‘Odeon’ circuit cinema, but it was always operated as an independent. It closed as a cinema with the film “Tootsie” in 1983 and was converted into a bingo club.
However this too had closed in July 1985. It was re-opened again as a cinema on 18th October 1985 with Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan”. By August 1988 it was converted into a four screen operation with seating capacities in the screens listed as 450, 280, 165 and 120. The Plaza Cinema finally closed on 4th January 1999 with a screening of “Prince of Egypt”. The Apollo group had opened a new multiplex cinema in Port Talbot.
The Plaza Cinema has stood empty for some years and but now owned by the local council who plan open the place back up as a business hub sometime in 2018 as i believe funding has been approved.
Partly demolished but the front facade retained late 2020.