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Description: | c. early 1950s.
Watercolour by Yorkshire artist, Pete Lapish, of Kirkstall Road from near to where the old Embassy cinema stood. At this time the Kirkstall Road area was heavily populated and there was much manufacturing industry. The Chamberlain tram seen in the foreground is on route number 4 to Kirkstall Abbey. The West Yorkshire bus is from Bradford and people may remember the long bench seats, upstairs, on the driver's side and the lowered footway. On the right-hand side Altham's Stores Ltd., tea merchants, can be seen located at number 338 Kirkstall Road between Watlass Street and Allerton Terrace. There were around nine branches of Altham's in the Leeds area at this time.
Some images by Pete Lapish are available to purchase as postcards or greetings cards from Leeds Visitor Centre - see our 'useful links' page. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Watlass Street Kirkstall Road Pete Lapish Allerton Terrace | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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