Bradford’s New Victoria Theatre openened in 1930, and housed a cinema, ballroom and restaurant. It was distinctive for its two octagonal domed towers and its great size, to accomodate over 3000 guests. Twenty years later it was reburbished, given a new projector and a huge chandelier, and was named The Gaumont. The live shows, which had been on the decrease for years, were again stepped-up, and the venue became the focus for orchestras and bands well into the sixties, when the Beatles started their first British tour at bottom billing. It became the Odeon in the late sixties, and prospered for another 30 years before falling into disuse, and becoming the centre of a political scandal, which continues today.