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Description: | 9th October 1931
View of the Shaftesbury Cinema on York Road at the junction with Harehills Lane. The Black Dyke band performed live on stage at its opening in 1928 and Beau Geste and Ben Hur were the opening films. The cinema had an adjoining ballroom which opened in February 1929. The cinema stage was used for various live shows. The cinema became the world's biggest casino in 1962 but returned to showing films until its closure in 1975. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | York Road Cinema | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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