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View of number 15 Theodore Street, a newsagent's shop belonging to James Thomas Ward. Theodore Street was located between Barkly Road and Cross Flatts Park in the Cross Flatts area off Dewsbury Road. Shelves display jars of sweets which were weighed out and sold to the customer by the ounce in small paper bags. Various signs in the window advertise goods on sale. There is one for Standard Fireworks; 'British to the last spark'. This gives a clue to the time of year the photograph was taken. Birthday cards are promoted with the slogan 'Scatter Sunshine with Greetings Cards', and there are magazines for women and knitting patterns. Three of the newspapers on sale have billboards announcing the headlines of the day outside the shop. These are as follows: The Daily Herald - 'Hitler's Secret' by W. N. Ewer, The News Chronicle - 'America's protest to Berlin', and the Leeds Mercury 'The All Yorkshire Paper' has 'Buchman Groups' by Leslie Weatherhead. These articles would appear to date the photographs to 1933/34. As Berlin prepared to host the 1936 Olympic Games under the new Nazi regime of Hitler, America protested against the Nazi discrimination of athletes on the basis of race and religion. Mr. James T. Ward poses at the entrance to this shop wearing his shop coat, collar and tie and flat cap. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Theodore Street Ward newsagent Cross Flatts | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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