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Description: | 6th October 1996.
View of the Golden Lion Hotel at number 2 Briggate, situated at the junction with Swinegate, left. It was built to designs by Thomas Ambler in 1879. A coaching inn once stood on part of the site, with stables, called the Commercial Hotel. In the 1780s, before the advent of railways, a service ran from here to York and Manchester. Number 1 Briggate was also demolished to build the Golden Lion. Prior to the 1300s there was no bridge crossing the river Aire so a ferry service operated. The ferry house was originally on the site of the Golden Lion. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Briggate Golden Lion Hotel Thomas Ambler Swinegate River Aire | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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