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Resolven Workmen's Hall and Institute

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NPRN414823
Map ReferenceSN80SW
Grid ReferenceSN8288902505
Unitary (Local) AuthorityNeath Port Talbot
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityResolven
Period20th Century
Description

Constructed in modernist style in the late-1920s, Revolven Workmen's Hall provided a cinema and public hall (capacity 750), library and reading room, billiards hall, committee rooms, and other features typical of such buildings in this period. For much of the twentieth century, the Hall was known as a cinema however in more recent times it has been used principally as a social club. The bar dates from the 1960s.

Daryl Leeworthy, RCAHMW, 16 September 2011.

 

Source:

'The cinema that time forgot and the people trying to bring it back to its former glory', Wales Online, 1 April 2018