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Description: | 26th November 1957
Image shows a row of back-to-back terraced houses on a cobbled street. The street was probably named after Samuel Ledgard who took over the Nelson Hotel pub on Armley Road from his father in the late 1890s. He later began and ran a thriving catering services, a cattle farming business, a steam wagon haulage firm, a floor firm and bus routes. The father of 8 boys and 3 girls he died in 1952 age 77 still resident at the Nelson Hotel. This area was later cleared under a Leeds City Council slum clearance programme and Ledgard Way created between Armley Road and Canal Road. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Ledgard's Place | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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