Park Row Leeds circa 1879

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 7:49 pm

If I did not know and was asked where the Grimshaw painting showed in Leeds I would have said Albion Place. Ignoring the church then I think Albion Place today has a good general resemblence to the painting.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 8:09 pm

Beckett & CoHere's an RBS heritage entry about the bank, with a picture. http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/wiki/Be ... 74-1921And here:http://www.banking-history.co.uk/cheque ... re4.htmlis a cheque, and a link to the Beckett family crest they used on them.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 8:47 pm

BLAKEY wrote: This is baffling, and at the same time fascinating. Why you have to wonder is the beautiful Wetherspoons on the west side of Park Row called "The Beckets Bank" ?? Its obviously been a magnificent bank of some kind, in fact I believe it was Barclays until quite recently. This bank was formerly a Barclays. http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 0396059But what was it before? There doesn't seem to have been much there before Barclays was built:http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 2_93432254

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 8:48 pm

Leodian wrote: If I did not know and was asked where the Grimshaw painting showed in Leeds I would have said Albion Place. Ignoring the church then I think Albion Place today has a good general resemblence to the painting. for years I have been trying to reconcile Pk Rw + the Cathdral, then S.L. threw the answer into my lap.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 9:01 pm

Found it - site of Barclays / Beckett's Bank when it was a furniture shophttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 6_54673404

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 06 Jan, 2012 11:08 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: Found it - site of Barclays / Beckett's Bank when it was a furniture shophttp://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIde ... 6_54673404 Thanks Geordie and everyone for clarifying the mystery - so the Barclays/Wetherspoons building is not quite as classically old as it appears then, maybe 1910ish, and presumably the furniture business had not too many decades to go after the move from Briggate.Also the other pictures show what a magnificent building the Park Row/Bond Street Beckets/Westminster Bank was - I had occasion to use it in the 1950s.

pablo leeds · Post by **pablo leeds** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 5:05 pm

"Midland/Hsbc demolished Philo HallNatwest dem'd Becketts"buggers surely those old buildings were far more striking than their replacements?

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sat 07 Jan, 2012 6:00 pm

Think Philo hall may have been bomb damaged/compromised, in fairness to Midland/Hsbc.Don't think Natwest/Rbs have any such get out claus.

Barwicker · Post by **Barwicker** » Sun 08 Jan, 2012 9:21 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: BLAKEY wrote: This is baffling, and at the same time fascinating. Why you have to wonder is the beautiful Wetherspoons on the west side of Park Row called "The Beckets Bank" ?? Its obviously been a magnificent bank of some kind, in fact I believe it was Barclays until quite recently. This bank was formerly a Barclays. http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 0396059But what was it before? There doesn't seem to have been much there before Barclays was built:http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 2_93432254 Just to add to the confusion I am pretty sure this building was earlier a branch of Martins Bank, which was taken over sometime in the late 1960s by Barclays.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Mon 14 May, 2012 6:52 pm

I think you're right Barwicker.