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Description: | 13th September 2003.
Dwellings in Lyddon Terrace, now part of the Campus of Leeds University, were built over a very long period, from 1825 to 1906. This section of Lyddon Terrace numbering from 15 to 25 were probably in 1839. Number 21, with the red door, has an extra storey and nowadays houses the Law Annexe. Early occupants of this house are shown, on various censuses, to have taken in lodgers. In 1851 the census shows that two brothers were lodging here aged 21 and 28 and fron Dumfries. They both had gained employment as architects in Leeds and the youngest, George Reid Corson is well known in the city for his magnificent designs such as the Municiple Buildings (1876), The Grand Theatre (1876) and the Life Assurance Building in Park Row (1869) amonst many others. He had a practice in Cookridge Street befroe retiring in 1901. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Leeds University Lyddon terrace George Corson | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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