The Eight Lancashire Lads. Courtesy of the West Yorkshire Archive Service Leeds, WYAS 72 Empire Palace sign in the Victoria Quarter. L O V E L L P A R K R O A D E R A U G Q R A S F T O N T N S E E T R E E E C O E E T N C U R O R C Q N D S D A A T T R E E A L L S T Generating V T O E I H R Station R P T L S Complex Y Y R E A Steps A L D (LGI) Y C O W N S N A&E T D A R N Yorkshire Bank L Site of the Coliseum 1885-1905 E Site of the Hippodrome A Steps Y E Rose Bowl L The Rose Bowl Leeds College E T T (Underground) L L I T T L E W O O D H O U S E S T R E E T R (LEEDS BECKETT) Steps LOVELL PARK of Building 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 E L Boots Empire Palace. It then became the Hippodrome, whichA S closed S G R Point A O T A E R O T S Brunswick 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 S M C 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 O Leeds City R E R R Ibis R G & Design T R B Museum E K R S Yates’s U C S E CENTRE St George’s MILLENNIUM 2 E 5 N I S T Steps W S T I E Site of the Theatre Royal C E Church and W R K B Wellcome S S Site of the Civic Theatre SQUARE T G Y Crypt E N Wing D U R E I 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 O Alhambra by its well-known proprietor JosephG Hobson. It A E Gardens M felt was low-brow. They approved of the Albion LITTLE S Crispin House R S of Art, College of Music and School of Design. Like Slung Low who is a well-known name 3 Sandinista S G T O R E R W E E B E R T R changed from a music hall to theatre in the mid-1800sT being Street Music Hall which they helpedS T sponsor, G S T R E E T E Steps R E E E E R G T they had a ‘pay as you feel’ philosophy, relying on donations, in Leeds as he was also the O L G E R T G E R E A E G I O’Neill’s R renamed (again) as the New Amphitheatre. Yet in 1876 there R Veritas with the aim of refining entertainment the Belgrave T O A as tickets toT their productions were free. In 1949 the theatre creator behind other Leeds N V A Y Music Hall P E S M L A E A E R C was a fire devastating the theatre. Hobson rebuilt his theatre R I E T working classes indulged in. G E O N S A was renamed the Civic Theatre and 56 years later it closed monuments including S T T 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 T Merrion K U O N E Leeds Central O A B E L L R for its pantomimes, such as Aladdin. E M S L D Gardens E T R E D R S A L E amongst its displays. Police Station E X A N D E R O R I M T E S O T R E A N T E P T S K S T Brotherhood T R R L A R N N E Leeds E ’ S S L E T A T R E Steps R E T St John’s E E T ST JOHN’S C QUARTER B Magistrates Post E Town E I C Ramp S I The Pit T WOODHOUSECourts Combined D Radisson Office A Hall The Light O CENTRE Y G Blu Hotel Courts L Leeds Grand N Templar Copyright © 2016 Leeds City Council, using map design E E Underpass P and source data supplied under licence.