Image: City Square, original construction

Description: View showing City Square being laid out, taken from the roof of the old Post Office building on Park Row. City Square was first conceived of after Leeds was given City status by Queen Victoria in 1893. Colonel T.W. Harding of Tower Works instigated the plans and William Bakewell was the architect. Here work is seen in progress with advertising hoardings surrounding the site. A temporary hut has the name of the builder, J.T. Wright of Hartley Hill. The Square was to be officially opened on 16th September 1903. In the background, left, is the original Queen's Hotel on Wellington Street which was opened in 1863; it was later demolished to be replaced by the present Queen's Hotel, dating from 1936. On the right is the site that would later be the Majestic Cinema, on Quebec Street; it is here occupied by a row of single-storey shops then the backs of buildings on Wellington Street.
Title: City Square, original construction
Credit: Leodis - a photographic archive of Leeds
Author: Unknown author
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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