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Hyde Park Picture House was designed by architects Thomas Winn & Sons in 1906. [1] It was originally built for Leeds hotel businessman Henry Child, who owned The Mitre hotel in Leeds City Centre, however Leeds Corporation repeatedly rejected his application to transfer his license to his proposed new hotel, The Paragon, and the building was therefore modified to become Brudenell Road Social ...
Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance". [2] Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.
Leeds Rifles War Memorial: Outside Leeds Minster, Kirkgate: 1921: Edwin Lutyens: Cross with bench and inserts: Portland stone and bronze: Grade II: Q26655868 [10] [11] More images: War memorial: The Headrow: 1922: Henry Charles Fehr: Obelisk with 3 statues: Portland stone and bronze: 7m tall Grade II: Q26547390: Architect, Reginald Blomfield ...
The Hyde Park Picture House, Hyde Park was originally built in 1908 as a hotel [38] and in 1914 it was converted into a picture house. [39] The cinema has gas lighting, the original organ and piano. It is a grade II listed building and one of the few surviving picture palaces in the UK.
Leeds Museums & Galleries began life as the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, which opened in 1821. In 1921, the collection was purchased by Leeds Corporation, to continue as a municipal museum (Leeds City Museum). [7] In 1928, Abbey House Museum was purchased by the Leeds Corporation, as place to display social history.
The area surrounding Munro House is now known as modern Leeds' Cultural Centre. [3] Following the redevelopment of Quarry Hill and the construction of The West Yorkshire Playhouse, St Peter's Square became home to BBC Yorkshire, Leeds College of Music, Northern Ballet, Yorkshire Dance and The Wardrobe. It is also unofficially known as the 'Arts ...
The film, called To Leeds, With Love, sees the return of a gingerbread man who starred in last year's projection in City Square. The show, beamed onto the frontage of the Queens Hotel, begins on ...
The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds primary school teacher Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, a lace merchant and freelance journalist, and was one of the most advanced centres for modernist thinking, radical thought and experimental art in Britain in the pre-First World War period. [1]