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It was the future Edward VII and his wife Alexandra of Did you know? Steps 1849-1933 Did you know? T O Main E P T Opal 3 Denmark who opened the Coliseum in 1885.entrance The Coliseum P N E Many theatres in Leeds O E The Hippodrome has had a number of nameSteps changes. It Once when the theatre was known as the R Jubilee R C presented circus acts with the most famous of these being T T Wing (LGI) L S Stick and Twist S are reported to be haunted A E was originally called the Princess’s Theatre, where the Princess’s Theatre, a variety act took place N R T Gilbert’s Circus, which drew rave reviews from The Yorkshire D C Arena B Y including The Grand Theatre G famous clown W. F. Wallett performed in 1857 who was outside involving a bizarreR O N spectacle with H LEEDS A D S G Point T R Harlequin in 1898. The acts included the Three Rosebuds T N E Citispace T I E T E T and Opera House who is A M known as Queen Victoria’s jester. The theatre was sold to a clown, called John Garret, being pulled R E E R L W R T E I W who were aerial gymnasts,D Professor Hull who had trained O E A O N L GENERALO haunted by the friendly R R Joseph Hobson, the theatre proprietor who owned the Royal around Leeds by geese as he sat in a tub. W L R O Steps T O A Y I his horses in “waltzing”S and Captain Leslie who had trained P ’ S E E ‘Lavender Lady’ who visits D Amphitheatre next door, and he renamed it the Princess G 1 B M R E H Y R his dogs in “leaping”E O among other tricks. Like many of Leeds’ Merrion Centre O N INFIRMARY Box D in the dress circle. O2 G O Concert Hall. In 1898 it was changed to the Tivoli, which like R S G Technology Campus T T D U Morrisons other theatreS venues the Coliseum was set for big changes Academy I Martin (LEEDS CITY COLLEGE) S E (LGI) At the Coliseum another P R City Varieties went out of business due to theS success of the T O E N T Wing R T K A T H L Brunswick O Car Park and became the first cinema in Leeds after being bought by (LGI) A N O T L M ghost resides, said to be Civic Hall D E L Empire Palace. It then became the Hippodrome, whichA closed S R E Boots Point S G O T A E R A T S Brunswick O W E C Bowling Alley Pure D Sydney Carter in 1905.Old Medical O N N a circus master from the R N Gym A in 1933 as a fatality of the increasingly popular cinemas. Pratt’s C E (LGI) E P School V W S T A E 19th century who A L T Baa R B A L N M C S E Brotherton V Steps Bar P L L B I Home Bargains A O committed suicide. C E U N Wing E V Commerce R N A E R The Cuthbert Leeds S T (LGI) L R House T L Brodrick College E E E T The T W E E S Macro’s H L E of Art T Reliance O O Y Costa MERRION W

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P T 1848-1957 (LGI) Ramp E R Did you know? E R T R N 1929-2005 L T B I L Did you know? S E L N B W A T O B E S T R B G L G R E R U C N N S I R A E S W Maplin S V The Theatre Royal began in 1848 as the Royal Casino, a T I C E R O E Trafalgar The Leeds Rational RecreationK Society, created The Civic Theatre began as the Civic Playhouse, opening in The original architect of Leeds S T R S T All Beckett One Stop E E T Street Bar Centre controversial music hall opposed by the middle classes. in 1852, aimed to combat music hall culture 1929. Prior to that the buildingG R E A hadT been used by Stepsa number of the Civic Theatre buildingS T R E E T One Revolution Private Car Park G E O R G E N D S T R E E T L A Fairfax Nearly a decadeShuffledog later it was expandedT and renamed The Royal exhibited at Hobson’s Royal Casino, which they T R Carriageworks R N organisations including the Mechanics Institute, the School was CuthbertP O Brodrick, Mandela Council Oﬃces C A F (THE ELECTRIC PRESS) Pryzm House R A L E

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N W T G CIVIC B R E I N Taco E T G N N E A O Nation of I St Anne’s and it opened as the Theatre RoyalE (whose nameW was to stick A G Old Y R R Y T M in 2005 being succeeded by the Carriageworks Theatre. It is Leeds Town Hall and the Shopkeepers Bell E R R O B E R P B I Cathedral The Wrens R I N K M H O N G R A School L POLICE A B P L until it was sold in 1957). The Theatre Royal R became famousO A G A C K W A C O D M R OX D E C E I Corn Exchange. Board A now Leeds City Museum which has a 5000 year old Mummy F D

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Assembly R F R Steps T Ramp Ramp Browns B E Y X Did you know? ’ A Victoria Square Steps Dortmund Room E E S O Cenotaph M Steps S A R The Carriageworks was created to replace the Civic R W C E T War Memorial K L R T Victoria Gardens Square A N E I E E R E H S V T N A E T Theatre, with the theatre’s building located in the Electric The theatre’s unique name R R Edward I S E O N N D Street S The S T C R A Sainsbury’s E E T R comes from the building’s Drayman A Press complex. It is advertised as a family-friendly theatreT G L E S A T E W E Halifax A T H E H E A Travelodge L D R G O W Town Hall W TK Maxx R P origins as the West Riding

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T Victoria Site of the Empire Palace Theatre The E R S H T O R T S T Core N K Molton S John Lewis T HMV Queen Brown A R D 1898-1961 Did you know? Dakota L S I D N U E Y Victoria S T O Sesame Hotel O C O B U T T S The Steps T Street R The Empire was a part of a theatre chain run by Moss and Angel Ship Inn 6 W West Yorkshire E The staff of the Empire R 1 East Inn E E S R U S S E L L S T R E E T Harvey Playhouse Jobcentre T A R R P Tommy A Parade O Stoll, and the Empire sign can still be seen in the brickwork wereU no strangers to stress, Blackhouse Nichols A C Plus T L ’ S Hilfiger Natwest Body I H S S T Restaurant Cross S R E HSBC T E & Bar Shop V at Harvey Nichols. The playbills at the Empire varied and like as when they Topened for W L Bond Pinnacle Arcade COS P A E Court E E T E R A L B I O T R the Coliseum they also offered circus acts, but this could be their first night in 1898 Tesco N P L A C E French R E E T D Y E R S T T S T K Connection G E E T R N I N G E O R Atlas G E D W dangerous as a trainer in the later 1930s wasE attacked by the plasterers were still A R D ’ S T R E S C Brauhaus E T 9 P B WH Smith A A R K Jamie’s O S leopards. The Empire had many renowned entertainersP L A like at work as the crowds N T Leeds C E 53 Degrees Italian D R E Skyline College North S G Frankie Vaughan and Gracie FieldsThe perform. Chambers Like most other waited outside. Interchange T Debenhams E T Apartments of Music I R

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R T B R I Hill in 1990. Many prestigious entertainers have performed H S Crown C S A I Black Nandos B C depended on strip shows to stay open, but the BBC’s The Good O C T S L L Street A R Prince O E R The Queens Hotel R T there such as Ian McKellan, who featured in The Seagull, H O A T K I L U Old Days TV show which ran from 1953-1983 is what really R E S A N H

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I I H R Light Transport R T C O U V L Gateway N ’ S E Slung Low is a theatre company run by artistic director Alan Slung Low performed The White E Whale by Opera HouseA L and the Royal Amphitheatre that both burnt Police A T O N E the idea to build this theatre H E D E H POLICE Slung Low Holbeck Revolución L A R T 10 S THE CALLSCalls U I Covered De Cuba L Lane. In 2010 they obtained the abandoned HUB, which had James Philips, which is a modern re-telling of D H I A downW within a year ofwalkway each of other, and also to combat began surprisingly with Underground Ballroom L D Landing A M Ticket M E W S E B ’ S 42 The Calls L A Y D C previously been a club, as a rehearsal space and theatre. the classic Moby Dick, on Leeds Canal. A boat A Gates B The New C music hall culture which was seen as vulgar. Interestingly Prince Albert. Albert came L LS11 9UA T T S A Penny They are a subsidised theatre supportedBrasserie by 44 Arts Council H E C A L L its original shareholders included a surgeon and a brewer. to Leeds with Queen Victoria Y on the water was their stage with the audienceO D P S I E T V Travelodge ’ W F England and Leeds City Council, whose financial backing S I R surrounding the canal listening to the actors R The Grand is a receiving house and showcases West End to officially open the Town I Cosmopolitan Hotel A L R N Bibis Y L LEEDS E Steps S A helps them to rent the HUB. The company’s philosophy via headphones. Hall in 1858, and allegedly Dark Arches G T touring shows as well as housing Northern Ballet and the R R Centenary A E T STATION D T Roomzzz E Bridge T centres on community and collaboration. Their first UK’s largest opera company outside London: Opera North. commented that “Leeds 10 minute walk E City K N V I L L E S T R E E T Criterion communityL project at the HUB was OriginalA Bearings which N E

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