28th July
This is what was happening at Victoria Pier on the 28th July in years gone by...
| 1933 | (Friday) In the early hours of the
morning, the 600 seat Bijou Theatre at the pier head, which escaped the fire
which consumed the Pier Pavilion 10 weeks earlier, caught fire and was
completely destroyed. The North Wales Weekly News reported: "The fire was first discovered about 4am by Mr. Hugh Hughes, signalman, Oxford House, Bayview Road, who was on duty in a box near the station. He shouted the alarm through a megaphone, and succeeded in attracting the attention of the sorting staff at the General Post Office, opposite his box. The sorting staff immediately summoned the Fire Brigade, which arrived on the scene within twelve minutes of the discovery". The theatre was destroyed and the pier head was burnt through in several places. Jack Rowlands Summer Revellers lost their costumes, music and script. Oddly, later the same day the new swimming pool opened at Rhos-on-Sea. |
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