SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

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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.    

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.

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?

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.

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

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!    

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

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