Hyde Park Picture House: the gas-lit cinema

The Hyde Park Picture House (1914) is one of the world’s last gas-lit cinemas — a little Edwardian palace on Brudenell Road that never stopped showing films, not even for two world wars.

(Image: Hyde Park Picture House — Tim Green, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

A £4m restoration returned it in 2023 with its gas lights, ornate plasterwork and a second screen in the basement. The programme is art-house and repertory: this is where Leeds comes to watch films properly.

📍 73 Brudenell Road, Leeds LS6 1JD — Google Maps
hydeparkpicturehouse.co.uk

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