The Bradford Picture House opened in 1914 as a purpose-built, 1200-seat cinema. Two years later, when the original owners refused to hire out the venue for a speech by Ramsay McDonald MP (later Prime Minister), the Independent Labour Party bought them out so the speech could go ahead. The new owners ran the cinema themselves until 1924, when it became the Morley Street Picture House under new ownership.
The venue closed as a cinema in 1956, and the building is now the Alhambra Studio Theatre.
