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Description: | 14th October 1928.
View looking from Briggate eastward down Lowerhead Row in 1928. New Briggate runs to the left and the almost ginnel-like entrance to the Lowerhead Row is on the right. The building on the extreme right still exists but Bird's store and all the properties to the right of it were demolished for the widening of the Headrow and the building of the Odeon Cinema. Bird's Store, the corner building, displays notices for a closing down sale. Bird's tenancy of the corner site was very short-lived; until 1926 the premises were occupied by H. and D. Hart, furriers and milliners, who then moved to the centre of Briggate, where the shop subsequently became Matthias Robinson's and then Debenham's. To the left of Bird's is Awmack's china shop. This firm was started in Boar Lane in 1852, moving to New Briggate in 1880 and then to the Headrow in 1931. In 1957 it moved again to Albion Street but was unsuccessful there, closing in December 1961. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Briggate Lowerhead Row | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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