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Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 4:30 pm
by Jogon
Thanks to philld for this image, in thanks for which he's barred from this.
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 5:51 pm
by Cardiarms
Wellesley gets a make over to become the smartest transvestite in town (or should that be City?).
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 6:05 pm
by uncle mick
Cardiarms wrote: Wellesley gets a make over to become the smartest transvestite in town (or should that be City?). I was thinking along the same lines but it had it's makeover circa 1868
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 6:23 pm
by jim
Not new in the 1930s.
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 7:43 pm
by Johnny39
Looks pretty Central to me, but I don't know when.
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 7:51 pm
by Leodian
If where I think it is is correct then the site is centrally placed for visiting Leeds. It is the interesting looking tower to the right that helped me think my train of thought is correct. if I'm wrong!Edit just after posting. In view of Johnny39's cryptic clue I really must type faster!
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 7:55 pm
by book
Looks like Hunslet
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 8:43 pm
by tilly
Leodian wrote: If where I think it is is correct then the site is centrally placed for visiting Leeds. It is the interesting looking tower to the right that helped me think my train of thought is correct. if I'm wrong!Edit just after posting. In view of Johnny39's cryptic clue I really must type faster! Hi Leodian i think you will find there are three interesting towers in that spot.
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 9:14 pm
by Leodian
tilly wrote: Leodian wrote: If where I think it is is correct then the site is centrally placed for visiting Leeds. It is the interesting looking tower to the right that helped me think my train of thought is correct. if I'm wrong!Edit just after posting. In view of Johnny39's cryptic clue I really must type faster! Hi Leodian i think you will find there are three interesting towers in that spot. And many chimney's there (then).I wonder what was done at the long building running from the left to much of the right?
Posted: Fri 08 Mar, 2013 10:09 pm
by buffaloskinner
Its the building of the new Queens Hotel. Built 1937.It is an elegant Art Deco Grade II listed building. It was constructed in 1937 by architects W.Curtis Green and W.H. Hamlyn for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). It is a four star hotel and it has a total of 217 rooms.