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Description: | 30th April 1924.
View of very old property in Malt Mill Yard which was situated off Lowerhead Row (now the lower Headrow). The camera is pointing north-east towards Harrison Street. Behind the gas lamp in the centre number 8 Malt Mill Yard can be seen. Curtains hang at the multi-paned windows and there are wooden shutters to the exterior. On the right-hand side number 9 is visible, also with wooden shutters at the ground floor window. Below the window is part of the cellar window and a grating. The yard itself is paved in large stone flags with a gulley down the centre. The Old Malt Mill Inn was once one of the public houses owned by Kirkstall Brewery in Broad Lane. In 1925, Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856-1943), a London architect, was commissioned to redesign what was then called Upperhead and Lowerhead Rows (now The Headrow), and also right down to the bottom of Eastgate. The work began in 1927 and it included substantial widening of the road. This involved demolishing much old property and yards on the north side of the Rows, including Malt Mill Yard. The trade directories show that Malt Mill Yard had disappeared by 1929 and it is likely that the inhabitants of Malt Mill Yard moved out in about 1928. Apart from the road widening, the Paramount Cinema (later to become the Odeon) was eventually built on the site, opening in 1932. (Nowadays, it houses Primark.) | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Odeon Cinema Malt Mill Yard Lowerhead Row Headrow Kirkstall Brewery Harrison Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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