Palladium Cinema

The Palladium Cinema in Ripon opened in 1936 on the site of an old coach house, which had been converted into a cinema in 1915. Parts of the walls of the earlier building were incorporated.

It had 910 seats in stalls and circle. There was also a 30-foot deep stage behind the proscenium arch also 30-foot wide there were three dressing rooms. Variety was sometimes presented. The façade was executed in a fashionable streamlined art deco manner which, it has to be said, does not blend in with the rest of Kirkgate. It was later controlled by a Leeds company —– Associated Tower Cinemas Ltd that still controls the Lounge and Cottage Road cinemas in Leeds.

The Palladium closed in 1982 and was converted into a nightclub —– a function it continues to fulfill in 2002 (known as Sly’s).

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