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Description: | 24th September 1999.
View of Thornton's Arcade looking towards Lands Lane. This was the first arcade in Leeds built on the forner Talbot yard site by Charles Thornton of the White Swan Inn in 1877/78. Shows the mechanical clock by Potts of Leeds in which J.W. Appleyard's figures of Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Richard I and Gerth the swineherd, all taken from Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, each strike thier bells every quarter of an hour. The arcade was refurbished in 1997. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Clock Thornton's Arcade | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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