British Seaside Entertainment Thanks To Llandudno
As we walked up and back down the pier, passing the wonderful Grand Hotel facade I noticed a lot of very ornate Victorian (my guess) steelwork that was obviously a building of some sort.
I love an abandoned building, who doesn't. I absolutely love just the hint of an old building, especially one that may have been large, ornate, and imposing on the landscape.
It's only now, as I come to do this daily photo, that I have discovered that this building was, Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre.
If you're British, or even just of a certain age from Commonwealth, and you think of seaside / pier entertainment of the Victorian age, through the Edwardian age, and between the world wars and up to the 1960s then you've Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre to thank for that image.
From it's double heydays of symphonic orchestras (1886 - 1936) and the variety shows (1936 - 1984) it faded away and was inevitably arsoned in 1994. Whilst it's been cleared away some steel remnants wait, and wait, and wait.
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