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Description: | 1899.
The east side of Briggate from the junction with Boar Lane. The photograph shows a crowded street scene with several horse drawn trams. Shops include Lockharts and Almer and Co Candles. Many have striped awnings. In the centre of the photograph can be seen the Bull and Mouth and the Albion is on its right. The Albion was the most modern of the Leeds coaching inns; it was built as a private house at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and coach services began from there in the 1830's. It was demolished to make way for Woolworth's store in 1928. To the right of it, Lockhart's Cocoa Rooms operated in Briggate from the early 1880's, although the firm appears to have originated in the north-east; an 1878 guide to 'Coffee taverns, cocoa houses and coffee palaces' lists branches in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, South and North Shields and Jarrow. It closed in the 1930s. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Birggate Boar Lane | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=90... | Go to resource |
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