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Description: | 8th July 1931.
Image shows the excavations underway for the new Lewis's Store in the Headrow formerly Uppehead Row. The building contractor is Robert Carlyle & Co Ltd. of Old Trafford. In the background, left are the Harrison's Almshouse built by wealthy merchant and benefactor, John Harrison in 1653. The Harrison Almshouses in Wade Lane were built to provide homes for 40 poor women. They were demolished in 1960. John Harrison was the founder of St. John's Church, also visible in the background. To the right of the Almshouses is what was formerly the charity school. Far right of the images are properties in New Briggate, including J.H. Awmack Ltd, glass, china & cutler dealer at numbers 8 to 10, at number 12 is Thomas Whiteley & Daughters, hairdressers with a chiropodist above. Adjacent at number 14 is Fit-rite Shoe Company and at number 16 is Mentel's Furriers, Pitmans College is at number 20. Immediately right of the group of trees, with tall arched windows and a conical shaped roof, is the former Assembly Rooms dating from 1878 at 32 New Briggate and designed by George Corson and James Robertson Watson. It opened as the New Century Talking and Singing Pictures in 1907 and was later to become the Plaza. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Harrison's Almshouses Upperhead Row St. John's Church Headrow Lewis's John Harrison New Briggate | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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