Have we done this one before? What & Where.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 9:11 am

In town...

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 9:15 am

Better pic attached

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 11:50 am

I thought I knew this when I saw the photo as I thought it looked like the roof of the Victoria Hotel on Great George Street. I decided though to check on Google Street View and found it is not, though there is a similarity (well I think so ). I feel I know this one, but cannot place where.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 12:34 pm

Looks like Commercial Street on the same side as where WHS used to be.Think there are more than one of them - pointy bits I mean. Don't know what the building is now, never mind before.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 12:45 pm

I should have put this in with the above but here goes.I remember Alan Bennett making some sort of documentary programme about Leeds architecture. Or it may have been a piece in a more general programme. Anyway, this was about twenty five or thirty years ago.In it, he walked down Commercial Street and said the secret of walking around the city of Leeds - or any city for that matter but who cares about any others - was to look up rather than straight ahead or in shop windows.Shades of Ms Jogon.Anybody else remember the bit by Bennett all those years ago?

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 2:02 pm

salt 'n pepper wrote: I should have put this in with the above but here goes.I remember Alan Bennett making some sort of documentary programme about Leeds architecture. Or it may have been a piece in a more general programme. Anyway, this was about twenty five or thirty years ago.In it, he walked down Commercial Street and said the secret of walking around the city of Leeds - or any city for that matter but who cares about any others - was to look up rather than straight ahead or in shop windows.Shades of Ms Jogon.Anybody else remember the bit by Bennett all those years ago? Alan Bennett may have done a programme on Leeds architecture but the one that sticks in my mind was by Prof. Patrick Nuttgens, who I think was Principal at Leeds Poly. It was done a long time ago but it still sticks in my mind because he said pretty much the same - look above the first floor. If I remember correctly the Prof. finished up in a wheelchair and eventually moved to York Uni. A very informative man.

biofichompinc · Post by **biofichompinc** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 2:26 pm

Johnny39 wrote: salt 'n pepper wrote: I should have put this in with the above but here goes.I remember Alan Bennett making some sort of documentary programme about Leeds architecture. Or it may have been a piece in a more general programme. Anyway, this was about twenty five or thirty years ago.In it, he walked down Commercial Street and said the secret of walking around the city of Leeds - or any city for that matter but who cares about any others - was to look up rather than straight ahead or in shop windows.Shades of Ms Jogon.Anybody else remember the bit by Bennett all those years ago? Alan Bennett may have done a programme on Leeds architecture but the one that sticks in my mind was by Prof. Patrick Nuttgens, who I think was Principal at Leeds Poly. It was done a long time ago but it still sticks in my mind because he said pretty much the same - look above the first floor. If I remember correctly the Prof. finished up in a wheelchair and eventually moved to York Uni. A very informative man. Yes I remember that one too Johnny39 and now I am wondering whether I have confused the two.Had a bit of a google and found evidence on t'Internet that AB had in fact made a few programmes on Leeds at one time or another. So who knows?In the meantime, I had a trawl for listed buildings on Commercial Street and of course there are several - including number 14. And here it is on another website...http://www.showcase.co.uk/property/14-C ... ds/8310602

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 2:42 pm

Wow, it's no wonder that retail business's struggle! According to the information brought up through the link in salt 'n pepper's post the rent per annum for 14 Commercial Street is £240,000 and the rates per annum are £104,196. I never realised the shops had to pay that much!

buffaloskinner · Post by **buffaloskinner** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 3:09 pm

I know the small shops in Thorntons arcade are more than £1000 per week rent!!!!

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Wed 04 Jul, 2012 10:59 pm

salt 'n pepper wrote: Looks like Commercial Street on the same side as where WHS used to be.Think there are more than one of them - pointy bits I mean. Don't know what the building is now, never mind before. Indeed it is, well done. It is on the top of the Aldo shoe shop.See here...http://goo.gl/maps/35dW