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The Automobile Palace, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells; Palace of Sport, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells; National Cycle Museum, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells

Motor Vehicle Showroom; Garage; Petrol Station
The Automobile Palace, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells; Palace of Sport, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells; National Cycle Museum, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells
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Temple Street in Llandrindod Wells became a stage for wheels, housing an automobile palace, a sporting palace and a national cycle museum during the twentieth century. The building collected speed, muscle and human ambition under one roof. It is no longer a palace of display, but the street still carries the vibration of engines and the memory of motion.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records The Automobile Palace, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells; Palace of Sport, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells; National Cycle Museum, Temple Street, Llandrindod Wells as Motor Vehicle Showroom; Garage; Petrol Station from the Modern; 20th Century period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
The Automobile Palace, later known as the Palace of Sport and National Cycle Museum, was built in the early 20th century by the entrepreneur and motorist Thomas William Coward. It is remembered as a unique example of early 20th-century automotive and sporting enthusiasm in rural Wales.

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