It was the much-loved venue which became a jewel in the city’s entertainment crown.
The Astoria Ballroom will be remembered by generations of dancers, concert-goers, music fans and even wrestling fanatics from back in the day. It first opened on Roundhay Road in 1929 as the Harehills Palais-de-Danse. By the 1940s it hosted tea dances where people wore dinner jackets and long gowns. And by the end of the 1960s until the early 1980s it staged live televised wrestling bouts.
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