Leeds lost cinemas

Biscuit Tin · Post by **Biscuit Tin** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 9:21 am

Anybody remember the Gainsbrough on Domestic Street?

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 10:10 am

Scandy Bramley wrote: Wasn't the Lounge reopened a year or so ago? I remember LCC had a public meeting about it.Thank god they saved the Hyde Park bughouse...I saw Woodstock, Easy Rider and all the classic hippy films there in the 70's as a student. Not to mention getting a sex education in there, with all the groping and such with female students I dated there! ;-)TMI, I know, but great memories lol. No it was the Cottage Road that reopened after a brief period of closure - The Lounge is still closed.

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 10:18 am

There were at least three cinemas in Horsforth, don't know what they were called tho'. The one at tho top of Town Street was locally known as "The Tin Tabernacle" as it was constructed from corrugated tin sheets! There was one halfway down Town Street, where the Barclays bank is now, was a carpet shop in the 80's 'til it burnt down! And the third was on New Road Side where the 7-11 is now (used to be Grandways supermarket! what ever happened to Grandways???). gonna look on leodis after brekkie!!! now where's that bacon?

parksider · Post by **parksider** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 10:34 am

I remember the Gainsborough ..that was on Holbeck lane..next door was a little pub..its now a car showroom...

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 10:57 am

Right boys and girls, this is how it goes, T'old Tin Tabernacle was at the top of Town Street and was officially called The Imperial, it was demolished in the early 20's when they built a more permanent home further down the street also called The Imperial. this became a CO-OP in the 60's/70's and then a carpet shop which burnt down as i mentioned before and then was demolished! The cinema on New Road Side was rather spectacularly called The Glenroyal which opened in 1937 with "Michael Strogoff" and closed in 64 with "The VIP's" aparrently it is now part of the Tesco's chain! When it was Grandways in the 70's and 80's the floor still sloped to the back of the shop i asume towards where the screen would have been!

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 11:10 am

Abby Picture House, Abby Road, Kirkstall. Opened 1913 and closed in 1960. is now Leeds MIND so i'm told! just looked on Leodis and there's hundreds of lost cinemas i could be here all day

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 8:25 pm

arry awk wrote: TheCinema at the bottom of Tong Road was 'THE CROWN! Now, turn Left down Wellie Road.Remember 'The Lyric' on Wellington Road? It was burned down!Car Sales there now on site.I saw 'Sanders of the River' there in the THIRTIES! Paul Robeson starred! (Who?)And the local pit, (to us Burley Roaders) was 'The Burley' Bughutch! Itching to get in and scratching to come out! It was on the Burley Road junction with Lloyd Street.opposite bottom of Hyde Park Road.I'll try and think of more when I've had a liedown!A real authority on the subject of Leeds cinemas is John Morgan,EXYEP sports columnist and excellent writer/reporter!'arry awk The Lyric's on tong road - the building is still there.The cinema you're thinking of was, according to Robert Preedy, the Plaza . This closed after a fire in 1937 - But the shell of it remains - and is still there - I'll get a picture of it as soon as I canHeres a picture of it in its heydays, from Leodis

Biscuit Tin · Post by **Biscuit Tin** » Sun 17 Jun, 2007 8:53 pm

Is the Shaftsbury still standing on York Road?

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Mon 18 Jun, 2007 7:37 am

Yes the Shaftsbury is still there! it's a cafe!

Biscuit Tin · Post by **Biscuit Tin** » Mon 18 Jun, 2007 7:49 am

What a shame that all the old cinema's are changing or disappearing, did a lot of courting on the back seat!!!!The new multi-plex' haven't got the atmosphere - or am I looking through 'Rose tinted Glasses'??