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Description: | c.1821.
Print of the Philosophical Hall which was on the corner of Park Row and Bond Street. The foundation stone was laid by Benjamin Gott on July 9th 1819 and it was opened on April 6th 1821. It was designed by Robert Chantrell. The print shows the original entrance in Bond Street. This was the meeting place of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. It also housed the City Museum. This was enlarged in 1861-2 and reopened in that year. An air raid in 1941 caused severe damage to the Museum and the Park Row entrance, built in 1862, was destroyed. A concrete frontage replaced this entrance but the museum finally closed in 1965. The HSBC bank is now on the site. This building opened in June 1869 as Midland Bank House, the name of the bank was changed to HSBC in 1998. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Park Row City Museum Philosophical Hall Bond Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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