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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.1km north<br/>The sorry state of the once grand interior of the York road library. To see more interior pictures and history of the building see here http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=265602590&blogID=328798330
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Dist:0.1km north<br/>York road library has been closed for other 20 years and was designed in an adaptation of the Renaissance style to express the purpose for which the building will be used (first dominant form of English Renaissance was Literature). The building is faced with Accrington pressed red bricks, Morley stone dressings and a tower with an ornamental cupola surmounts the Juvenile entrance. An electric fan by which the air in the Reading Rooms could be changed several times an hour. All floors were of fireproof construction and finished with maple blocks. A Mosaic containing the design of the Leeds City Arms was inset into the paved entrances. The whole of the furniture and fittings were in oak. To see inside the very sorry state of the interior in 2007 see here http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=265602590&blogID=328798330
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Mount Saint Mary's church opened in 1857 and was funded by the Irish Community. It stands in a district of Leeds traditionally known as the Bank. The Bank had become home to a large community of Irish Catholics who had emigrated to Leeds to seek work building canals and railways. The church was also known as the Famine Church, the original chapel was established at a time when Ireland was only beginning to recover from the Great Hunger brought on by the failure of the potato crop in successive years from 1845 to 1851. During the 1970's and 80's the congregation dwindled and the cost of keeping the church open wasn't feasible. The church closed it's doors for the last time in 1989 and was deconsecrated by the Catholic church. To see many more full size pictures of my Mount St Mary's collection see http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=265602590&blogID=389969200
©philld
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©Alan Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Mount Saint Mary's church opened in 1857 and was funded by the Irish Community. It stands in a district of Leeds traditionally known as the Bank. The Bank had become home to a large community of Irish Catholics who had emigrated to Leeds to seek work building canals and railways. The church was also known as the Famine Church, the original chapel was established at a time when Ireland was only beginning to recover from the Great Hunger brought on by the failure of the potato crop in successive years from 1845 to 1851. During the 1970's and 80's the congregation dwindled and the cost of keeping the church open wasn't feasible. The church closed it's doors for the last time in 1989 and was deconsecrated by the Catholic church. To see many more full size pictures of my Mount St Mary's collection see http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=265602590&blogID=389969200
©philld

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