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Description: | 20th August 1931.
View of Lewis's Department Store under construction looking east towards New Briggate. At the time the firm of Lewis's was the largest retail store organisation in the country but it had lowly beginnings as a small clothing shop in Liverpool founded in 1856 by David Lewis. By the time Lewis's expanded the business to Leeds, huge department stores were already established in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow. ( floors were planned for the Headrow Store with 20,336 square yards of selling space. 100,000 cubic yards of clay and rock were dug out of the huge site before the foundations were laid, and 5,000 tons of British Steel was used in the construction. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Headrow Lewis's 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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