Victoria Cinema
Peel Place,
Burley in Wharfedale,
LS29 7JS
Peel Place,
Burley in Wharfedale,
LS29 7JS
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Previous Names: Victoria Hall
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Located in Burley in Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, 3 miles east of Ilkley. The Victoria Hall was built in 1888 and had been used by the Home Guard during World War II. It was used as a cinema from the late-1940’s. CinemaScope was installed in 1955 but prices stayed the same. It was closed in the 1950’s and demolished in 1962. Today a scouts hut stands on the site.
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The Burley Local History Group has a little more information: the Victoria Hall was built in 1888. Opened to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, it housed the local Rifle Volunteers, a detachment of the Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment 3rd Battalion Rifle Corps. Burley residents also used it as a multi-purpose hall for meetings, weddings and the like.
The A.S. Hyde circuit operated the Victoria Hall as a cinema during the 1940’s to the 1950’s, the building was demolished in 1962.