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Description: | C 1890s.
View of Yew Tree House on Bank Street, built by Richard Huntington in about 1650. It was later occupied by Miss Dorothy Waller, daughter of poet and politician Edmund Waller, a devout worshipper at the Old Chapel who left the house to the Rev. Timothy Aldred, Minister at the Old Chapel for 54 years. After his death in 1773 the house passed to the Rayner family then in the early 19th century it was occupied by Dr. John Swinden. The house was later split into two separate dwellings, no. 78 Bank Street taking the name Swinden House and no. 80 retaining the name Yew Tree House. At the time of the photograph no. 78 was occupied by the Misses Green (possibly the women in the picture), who had a clothing shop in Morley Bottoms, while no. 80 was the home of Joseph Kirk, woollen manufacturer of Crank Mills. The house is still standing and is now listed.
Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Bank Street Yew Tree House | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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