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Description: | 14th October 1928.
On the extreme left are the Municipal Buildings, which is now the Central Library. The Leeds Permanent Building Society block was demolished, then cleared land created the Victoria Gardens in front of the library and the Garden of Rest for the war memorial, and for the Headrow to be widened. The narrowness of what was Park Lane is clearly shown. This view looks down the Headrow towards Briggate. To the right is the Pearl Assurance Building on the junction with East Parade. The building to the left of the Permanent Building Society was Calverley Chambers, occupied by a variety of offices. The Leeds Permanent Building Society bought 'buildings now occupied by Messrs. Swaine and Coleman at the corner of Park Lane, and Calverley Street, together with the land on which Mr. Thorpe has his sculpture works' for alteration and expansion as its headquarters, Victoria Chambers, in 1876. The former woollen warehouse required extensive adaptation, and the architecture was intended to complement that of the Municipal Buildings. When it was scheddduled for demolition under the scheme for widening the Headrow, the City Council offered the building society the site at the corner of Guildford Street and Cookridge Street for its new offices. The business was transferred to the present building in 1930. Pearl Buildings, on the extreme right, was built for Pearl Assuance in 1911 by William Bakewell, and was the first large-scale building in Leeds clad in Portland Stone. The statue of Patrickd James Foley, founder of Pearl Assurance, is just visible between the two turrets. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Calverley Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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