Entries for the tag ‘Leeds Coliseum, 55 Cookridge Street’
📌 1885 Coliseum Theatre replacing old circus building, 1905 cinema, 1928 bought by Gaumont, 1938 interior rebuild, 1961 various uses, 1992 rebuild into music venue, now O2 Academy. 
- 10 October 1908: Morley-born Liberal PM Asquith gives a speech on alcohol licensing at the Leeds Coliseum, as suffragettes, suffragists, unemployment activists and mounted police entertain outside
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