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View from Portland Crescent showing the rear wing of the 1933 built. Civic Hall, left and the 1969 built Annexe right. A connecting glass panelled bridge extends between the two buildings. The Annexe and bridge extends between the two buildings. The Annexe and bridge were phase 1 of a two phase scheme to provide office accommodation for Council employees. They were built to the designs of E. Weston Stanley, then the City Architect. The firm of Trollope & Colls Ltd. won the contract for the construction which was in pre-cast concrete and incorporated many large windows for the benefit of the first occupant the Councils Architects' Department. The bridge was built in March 1968 when a window to the Records Office of the City Engineers Department in the Civic Hall became the access to it. Phase 2 was never to be built. It was to have included a 20 storey tower block for offices and a staff canteen. The whole scheme was estimated at ?2,500,000 but phase 1 cost ?500,000. Leeds Metropolitan University is visible in the background. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Civic Hall Annexe Portland Crescent Leeds Metropolitan University | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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