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Description: | 1885.
Image shows a sketch of the interior of the new Reading Room of the Free Library (Leeds Central Library) located in the Municipal Buildings in Calverley Street. The library transferred here from its previous location of Infirmary Street. Ladies and gentlemen in Victorian dress are seen and the central two figures appear to be discussing the potential layout of the furniture of the Reading Room with one man gesticulating with his arm. The room features a beautiful tiled ceiling in vibrant colours, pillars, arches and a parquet floor. It was later to house the sculpture gallery. For a period of 52 years, between 1955 and 2007, the Victorian splendour of this room was obscured and almost forgotten when it was fitted with a false ceiling and 'modern' book shelves boxed in the pillars. The new library of Commerce, Science and Technology opened in the April of 1955. The year 2007 saw the return of the room's former glory when all this was removed and the original features restored. It is now an elegant cafe and is known as The Tiled Hall. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Municipal Buildings Library Tiled Hall Calverley Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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