The Theatre Royal, a replacement of an earlier theatre which sat there in 1790 till 1904, theatre royal opened in 1905 purely for live entertainment. A superb façade in ashlar stone in the Edwardian style dates from this period, and was designed by Richard Horsfall & Son of Halifax.
The 1,900-seat auditorium, believed to have been on 4 levels was gutted in April 1937 and to the plans of architect Christopher Rowland Cooper a new two tier 2,200-seat cinema auditorium was created which extended into the stage area.
The cinema closed around the 1960’s and became a bingo hall which in turn closed in the 1990’s
