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Description: | 12th August 1931.
View of Lewis's Department store under construction, looking east towards properties in New Briggate. Properties from the left include; the Assembly rooms, part of the Grand Theatre complex designed by George Corson and James Watson in 1898, later to become New Century Pictures Ltd., then the Plaza Cinema; then, just glimpsed, Charles, Photographer; then Pitman's College of Commerce at number 20 New Briggate; Mentel Ltd., furriers at number 16; Fit-rite Shoe Co. Ltd., boot dealers at number 14; T.H. Whiteley and daughters, hairdressers at number 12 and finally J.H. Awmack Limited, glass, china & Co. dealers at numbers 8-10. All the above properties were on the south-east side of New Briggate. The excavations for the new store, Lewis's were completed by August 1931 and the store was ready to open to the public by September of the following year. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Lewis's George Corson 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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