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Description: | 11th May 1935.
View of Brotherton Library under construction.
The foundation stone was laid by Lord Brotherton on 24th June 1930.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang and the Duke of Devonshire officially opened the library on 6th October 1936.
It cost ?100,000 to build, William Airey was the building contractor.
In the early 1950s, the Parkinson building was erected, this now obscures the view of the library from Woodhouse Lane. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Leeds University Library | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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