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View of the Lancasterian School on Alfred Street off Boar Lane. This was situated at number 13 Alfred Street and was a purpose built school room. The Lancasterian School was named after Joseph Lancaster and it began in the Old Assembly Rooms in Kirkgate in 1811. The foundation stone for the school on Alfred Street was laid on January 24th 1812 and was designed by Thomas Taylor. It opened in 1813 and had Thomas Bischoff, Richard Kemplay and Samuel Clapham as trustees. The school taught 500 boys and was an interdenominational institution. This school was for children from the age of 8 to 11 or 12 and taught reading, writing and arithmetic. The building was later converted to multiple occupancy and by 1888 housed wool merchants, iron and steel merchants and a company producing bill posters. At the time of this photograph the building was to let. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Alfred Street Lancasterian School | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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