Olympia Picture House

In the Burmantofts district of Leeds, the Olympia Picture Hall was opened by Premier Bioscope Ltd. (managing director: Earnest Clifford Prudence) on Monday 2nd September 1912.

It was a conversion of a cloth factory. The heating, lighting and projection equipment were installed by the New Pelaphone Engine Company of Dewsbury and, unusually (though perhaps one or both were second-hand) there were two different projectors, a Kalee and a Tyler Ernemann.

By 1927, according to the Kinematograph Year Books, it had been renamed the Olympia Picture House and was by then owned by A and L Bassovitch. It was equipped with a British Thomson-Houston(BTH) sound system.

The Olympia Picture House closed on 16th March 1934. The building was used as a warehouse for many years. Much more recently (according to a June 2024 image on Google Street View of what is, I assume, the former cinema) it has been home to a number of businesses, including the Medina Restaurant (now closed) and the Babylon Shisha Lounge.

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