Here are some photos of the old cinemas from around West Leeds they were taken by a guy called Mark Platts in the 1980s, writes Mark Stevenson.
How many do you remember?
Picture House, Church Lane, Pudsey. Photo: Mark Platts Haddon Hall Cinema in Burley. Photo: Mark Platts Palace Picture Hall, Eyres Avenue, Armley. Photo: Mark Platts Pavilion Cinema, Stanningley. Photo: Mark Platts Imperial Picture House in Kirkstall Road. Photo: Mark Platts Electric Picture Palace, Lowtown, Pudsey. Photo: Mark Platts The former Clifton Cinema, Bramley. Photo: Mark Platts The Lyric, Tong Road. Photo: Mark Stevenson
Brilliant photos of cinemas but none of the Picturedrome in Wortley Road Armley We have searched but no success perhaps you might have better luck Wendy Beaumont
Yes, the Lido Cinema, known affectionately as the Loppy de Luxe on Bramley Town Street which was demolished when Bramley Town Street was redeveloped. Usually showed B rated films which usually broke down to lots of cheers and stamping from the audience. Happy, fun days.
I can think of at least three that have been missed. First ‘The Crown’ at bottom of Tong Road. Secondly ‘The Kinema’ at the bottom of Carr Crofts, opposite of Armley Health Centre. And thirdly the cinema that used to be on Wortley Road alongside the railway bridge and opposite Statio Approach (as it is now called but used to be Cabul Row).
I think the cinema Bramley where i used to work there as a Saturday boy when it was called howarth timber and I remember seeing the last showing of Rocky 5 at the lyric cinema
Notable exception is the Lido located on Bramley Town Street roughly where the Cardigan Arms was.
Closed approx 1961.
Burley Road and Kirkstall Road had practically a cinema at the end of most streets too.
You have missed the Picturedrome Armley,Western Cinema Armley,Crown Tong Road,Picture House on Tong Road which burned down in 1936 ,Palace Stanningley Road
Yes,remember the Haddon Hall cinema,plus the Imperial on Kirkstall Road(.also the Embassy?).
There was a cinema on Burley Road,the Burley Cinema,until 1959(you can find this on Leodis website
Yes. You’ve missed the cinema at Rodley bottom. Apart from the radio it was where we got wartime news. (Pathé, I think).
They also screened a Saturday matinee for children. A huge treat before the days of television.
Remember the Clifton Cinema at Bramley Town End so well. A nice cinema and a favourite, especially the double seats on the back few rows. Happy memories of good times.
There was a small cinema just off Stanningley Road, down one of the streets from Armley Branch Library. Perhaps that was the Western that another correspondent has mentioned. The Picturedrome, or one of them, was on a Street ran from the end of Whingate Road where it joined Whingate itself. Can’t remember the name of the road now but there was a pub on the Whingate corner called, I think, The Commercial. Saw many films there around the end of WW II. Hard to believe nowadays, but a group of us children would stand outside the entrance when the film had an A classification, clutching our ninepences, and ask passing couples, ‘Tek us in, Mister?’. We rarely missed a film.
I remember Forest Products at Bramley as my Dad was manager there, and helped convert it from the old Clifton Cinema. There were still bits of equipment lying around in the projection room, and the screen was still there. The seats were taken out and timber etc was stored in the auditorium. My Dad left there some time in the 70s. I don’t know when it closed, but it was demolished and on the site now is Greggs bakery.
Brilliant photos of cinemas but none of the Picturedrome in Wortley Road Armley We have searched but no success perhaps you might have better luck Wendy Beaumont
Stanningley road had what looked like a cinema yet in the day I had only known it has a bingo hall called the Royal.
That was the Savoy cinema. There was also another one further up nearly opposite the road end from Farsley
Yes, the Lido Cinema, known affectionately as the Loppy de Luxe on Bramley Town Street which was demolished when Bramley Town Street was redeveloped. Usually showed B rated films which usually broke down to lots of cheers and stamping from the audience. Happy, fun days.
The Palace also had a dance hall/ roller skating rink. Gosh, memories of fun times.
I can think of at least three that have been missed. First ‘The Crown’ at bottom of Tong Road. Secondly ‘The Kinema’ at the bottom of Carr Crofts, opposite of Armley Health Centre. And thirdly the cinema that used to be on Wortley Road alongside the railway bridge and opposite Statio Approach (as it is now called but used to be Cabul Row).
I think the cinema Bramley where i used to work there as a Saturday boy when it was called howarth timber and I remember seeing the last showing of Rocky 5 at the lyric cinema
M&S in the middle of Pudsey was a picture house . nicknamed the new un
That’s the one near the top of the post when it was a Fine Fare
Rialto in Rodley and Criwn on Tong Road where my father was manager for many years
I seem to recall a cinema on Bramley Town Street which became a dance venue for a time. It was weird dancing on a sloping floor.
Notable exception is the Lido located on Bramley Town Street roughly where the Cardigan Arms was.
Closed approx 1961.
Burley Road and Kirkstall Road had practically a cinema at the end of most streets too.
You have missed the Picturedrome Armley,Western Cinema Armley,Crown Tong Road,Picture House on Tong Road which burned down in 1936 ,Palace Stanningley Road
Yes,remember the Haddon Hall cinema,plus the Imperial on Kirkstall Road(.also the Embassy?).
There was a cinema on Burley Road,the Burley Cinema,until 1959(you can find this on Leodis website
there was a cinema at Stanningley called the Savoy and one at Rodley but I don’t know it’s name
The cinema in Rodley was the Rialto
old picture houses ,,lido bramley ,,picture drome armley,,think its was the crown botom tong rd.mick coulson.
Yes. You’ve missed the cinema at Rodley bottom. Apart from the radio it was where we got wartime news. (Pathé, I think).
They also screened a Saturday matinee for children. A huge treat before the days of television.
Remember the Clifton Cinema at Bramley Town End so well. A nice cinema and a favourite, especially the double seats on the back few rows. Happy memories of good times.
Great photos. Went to the Lyric and the Pavilion (Saturday matinee, Children’s Film Foundation films …)
Abbey Cinema Kirkstall, became a funeral parlour I think
There was a small cinema just off Stanningley Road, down one of the streets from Armley Branch Library. Perhaps that was the Western that another correspondent has mentioned. The Picturedrome, or one of them, was on a Street ran from the end of Whingate Road where it joined Whingate itself. Can’t remember the name of the road now but there was a pub on the Whingate corner called, I think, The Commercial. Saw many films there around the end of WW II. Hard to believe nowadays, but a group of us children would stand outside the entrance when the film had an A classification, clutching our ninepences, and ask passing couples, ‘Tek us in, Mister?’. We rarely missed a film.
I remember Forest Products at Bramley as my Dad was manager there, and helped convert it from the old Clifton Cinema. There were still bits of equipment lying around in the projection room, and the screen was still there. The seats were taken out and timber etc was stored in the auditorium. My Dad left there some time in the 70s. I don’t know when it closed, but it was demolished and on the site now is Greggs bakery.