1. The Kosy Kinema in Aberdare was owned and operated by William Haggar, a pioneering director and cinema proprietor. It opened on 23rd August 1915 and has a capacity of 700. The local newspaper, the Aberdare Leader, described the cinema building in the following terms:

"The front is constructed in stucco in the Grecian style, with columns and enriched by festoons of laurels, with a canopy of steel and coloured lead lights, lit up by hundreds of electric colour globes, which give a very pleasing and grand effect. On either side of the mosaic vestibule, a stone staircase leads to the balcony which is considered to be the finest in the provinces and seats 350." (Aberdare Leader, 28 August 1915).

Later restyled the Cosy Cinema, it was sold in 1927. Extensively damaged by fire in 1946, the building was later demolished.

Daryl Leeworthy, RCAHMW, 23 May 2012.

2. From 'Entertaining South Wales, A-B':

'Opened as Haggar's Kinema in August 1915, this was a luxurious building with folding seats for 700, and room for a further 200 on benches. It was one of the circuit of halls owned by William Haggar, and Haggar's Kinema was famous for its Saturday morning children's matinees in the silent-film days and its admission charge of one old penny. Before William Haggar died in 1925 the cinema had been renamed the Kosy Kinema, and when it was sold two years later to Captain Willis of Pentre, it was revamped and the peculiar spelling adjusted to Cosy Cinema. Installation of updated cinema equipment and the subsequent sound provision caused the seating capacity to be reduced to 670. The cinema was eventually destroyed by a serious fire in 1946 and was never rebuilt.'

Meilyr Powel, RCAHMW, November 2020

Source:

Entertaining South Wales, A-B, overthefootlights.co.uk, p.11