1st tower block

Si · Post by Si » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 9:08 am

drapesy wrote: I thought you might all like to see this futuristic vision - complete with trams on Briggate.! This was a proposal for a tower block on Briggate , where M & S now is, in 1938 (so later than Queens Hotel anyway). The war put paid to any chance of its construction, apparently. (Leodis Pic-http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 0_23041934) Nice find, Drapesy. It just needs a bloody great gorilla on the top of it!

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Mon 20 Oct, 2008 2:19 pm

Si wrote: drapesy wrote: I thought you might all like to see this futuristic vision - complete with trams on Briggate.! This was a proposal for a tower block on Briggate , where M & S now is, in 1938 (so later than Queens Hotel anyway). The war put paid to any chance of its construction, apparently. (Leodis Pic-http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?reso ... 0_23041934) Nice find, Drapesy. It just needs a bloody great gorilla on the top of it! lol i thought it looked familiar

Loiner Paul · Post by **Loiner Paul** » Tue 21 Oct, 2008 12:17 pm

Trojan wrote: Was it the ones at Holbeck? They were certainly there in the early sixties. I've heard a rumour that these blocks at Holbeck are due for demolition in a couple of years. Don't know how true it is, but they don't seem to fit with the planners dream of the Holbeck Urban Village!!