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Tenby South Beach, Pavilion, Tenby

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NPRN32119
Map ReferenceSN10SW
Grid ReferenceSN1305600147
Unitary (Local) AuthorityPembrokeshire
Old CountyPembrokeshire
CommunityTenby
Type Of SitePAVILION
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
The amusement pavilion on the South Beach, Tenby, was known as `Shanly's Pavilion? from 1929 to 1937 and later as the `South Beach Pavilion?. It was a six storey concrete and iron building constructed on the site of the corn mill on Windmill Hill by Michael William Shanly.

"It combined under one roof, a roof garden for band concerts and concert parties, a cinema, soon to have the 'talkies', a very fine ballroom, a restaurant and a basement amusement arcade. It was wisely provided with a large car and coach park, and it had adjoining tennis courts and a roller-skating rink. The Pavilion seems to have anticipated the disco, for it introduced dancing to gramophone records played on the panotrope." [Journal of the Pembrokeshire Historical Society - Vol. 2 1986-1987 Tenby guides and Tenby visitors, c.1800-1940].

The cinema stayed open through to 1973. The building was demolished in 1978