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Description: | 1902.
View of crowd posing around fountain on Victoria square, in front of Town Hall. This photograph shows one of the many changes that have been made to the square in front of the Town Hall. A statue of the Duke of Wellington was erected in the square in 1855; a statue of Sir Robert Peel which originally stood outside the old Post Office in Park Row was moved to the front of the Town Hall in the 1890's. Between them was the large fountain shown here, which had originally been in Vicar's Croft; Kelly's directory of 1903 described it as 'elaborately wrought in iron and stone, consisting of three super-imposed basins, the lowermost of which, constructed of stone, has a diameter of 40 feet...the whole structure reaches an altitude of 34 feet but is very seldom in action'. The photograph was taken in April 1902; the fountain was removed in June of that year. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | fountain Victoria Square | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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