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Description: | 8th July 1931.
Excavations are underway in the Headrow for the erection of the new Lewis's department store. This part of the Headrow was formerly known as Upperhead Row. The excavations were completed by August 1931 and the store was opened on 18th September 1932. Frederick James Marquis, (later Lord Woolton, Wartime Minister of Food) bought the site for ?160,000. He was on the board of directors of the Lewis's firm. On the left is Campbells House Furniture Store at number 13 Upperhead Row advertising ?60 worth of furniture for 5 shillings weekly. Next is H.G. Shipham, a menswear business at number 15. Shipham was a colleague of Snowden Schofield who, on a visit to Leeds from Liverpool, decided to take the shop at the other side of the entrance to the Victoria Arcade, (an elaborate arch between the two turrets). Schofields was to become a famous Leeds store. On the right are the Harrisons Almshouses built by wealthy Leeds merchant and benefactor, John Harrison in 1653. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Headrow Upper Headrow Lewis's Schofields John Harrison | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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