Leeds lost cinemas

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 25 Jul, 2007 7:19 pm

arry awk wrote: Hi Simon,Drapesy and Ravey!Stirring up memories of my 'Travelling' days in the late 60's/early 70's I used to call on a Reliant Dealership in that very building.They were called 'King's of Oxford' and I remember they were one of the first dealers in Yorkshire to take on the 'Bond Bug'! (don't think it sold very well,actually.It should have gone down well with the biker/hell's angel fraternity! (3 wheeler).King's moved there from Thwaite Gate,I believe,and they also hada premises on Roundhay Road.I,too thought that building may have been a cinema! Why didn't I find out Then? Grrrr! Patrons would have been exhausted climbing all those steps at the front!CheersArry There's nothing to find out Arry ! It Really, Really,Really REALLY never used to be a cinema. Really.

pid · Post by **pid** » Wed 25 Jul, 2007 7:43 pm

really ?

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Wed 25 Jul, 2007 9:57 pm

yes, Really

dERvXeroX · Post by **dERvXeroX** » Wed 25 Jul, 2007 10:12 pm

I remember it being a hardware store before it was Dyrons.

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JanCee · Post by **JanCee** » Wed 25 Jul, 2007 11:04 pm

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arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Thu 26 Jul, 2007 5:38 pm

Orright! I believe ya! T'weren't a bug hutch! (Only BOND Bugs! Hee hee!) Deffo a King's of Oxford establishment b4 Dyron's tho'! Mebbe just after the Co-op ? Had a job getting the 'osses up them steps!Lucky white heather, lady?Arry

farbank · Post by **farbank** » Mon 30 Jul, 2007 5:36 pm

Surprised, having re-read completely thro' the whole thread, no one has a mention for the dear old Scala off Briggate, on Albion Place. Not only a cinema, but an up-market dancehall too. {Up market to lads like me who frequented places like 'The 101' and if we were going slumming, The Starlight Roof on York Rd.]

farbank · Post by **farbank** » Mon 30 Jul, 2007 7:02 pm

PS. Just remembered, {common thing when your'e 'arry 'awks age}, what about the Gaiety on Roundhay Rd.?And can you imagine the furore if kids had to do what we did in the 40's.? The picture classification [X; H; A; B; C etc.], meant that to get into a cinema showing a film that classified it as ,accompanied by an adult only. We kids by the score would be dashing up to every complete stranger that approached the cinema, with a "will you take us in please".?Often it was " If I do , you go sit somewhere else when your'e in". This was more likely if it were a courting couple you had asked. They were the best to ask. The lad was showing off to the girlfriend how 'sympatico' he was.

parksider · Post by **parksider** » Mon 30 Jul, 2007 7:11 pm

Dervyour dead right it was a hardware store before..owned by a jewish guy called Cohen..