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Cottage Road Cinema

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Cottage Road Cinema. Opened as the Headingley Picture House on 29 July 1912 by film pioneers Owen Brooks and George Reginald Smith. It occupies a converted motor garage built in 1908 for the owner of nearby Castle Grove. It is the oldest continually operating cinema in Leeds.

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