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Image shows the Theatre Royal with large signs on the wall calling it 'The most popular prices and an advertisement promotes the current play as 'Lifes Sweetest Sins'. On the right is the King Charles Croft entrance. This theatre was originally the Royal Amphitheatre. Seriously damaged by fire in 1876 it reopened 7 months later under Joseph Hobson as the Theatre Royal. In 1909 Francis Laidler took over and began the theatres long running tradition of pantomimes earning the theatre the reputation of most famous theatre for pantomimes in the north. Francis Laidler died in 1957 and his wife carried on the theatre for 2 years until 1959 when she was forced to sell it. It was bought by Schofields and demolished 2 months later. The site is now part of the Headrow Shopping Centre. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | King Charles Croft Theatre Royal | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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