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Description: | 29th May 1931.
Image shows the enormous breadth and depth of the Headrow site where Lewis's department store is under construction, The Headrow, including the Victoria Arcade, is visible, left. Many workmen are engaged in various tasks and planks have been laid as walkways for barrowing materials. A makeshift chute can be seen on the left to deliver materials such as wood and gravel quickly to the site. 100,000 cubic yards of clay and rock have been dug out of the site before the laying of the foundations which began in August 1931. Wheelbarrows full of gravel are visible ( 12,000 tons of gravel were needed). The cranes are supplied by Redpath Brown & Co. of Manchester and at least one of the concrete mixers in the foreground is powered by a Fowler engine. Harrison's Almshouses in Wade Lane/Mark Lane are at the top right hand edge. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Mark Lane Headrow Lewis's Victoria Arcade Wade Lane | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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