At a guess I'd say that was some sort of "coal hole", so the coal merchant could deliver coal straight to the bunker without disturbing the occupants of the house. From that pic it seems that the bunker is long gone though.
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I see this (picture above) every day on my way into uni - always feel i should take a camera along and photograph it!I reckon that maybe it used to be the entrance to a pub or something similar. I'm sure i've seen busts of Victoria and Albert somewhere along the same row of shop fronts that might have been part of the same building at some point.Does anyone know what it used to be? It's on Raglan Road, heading down from the uni engineering buildings in the direction of Woodhouse.
with regard to the first photo, of the blocked-off door on Hyde Street - it now features white paint, a painted-on door handle and letterbox, and the number 101 in ornate lettering...always makes me giggle!
munki wrote: This is on Hyde Street just off Clarendon Road. Does anyone know where it once led? Looks like the now sach windows to the left were a much grander opening almost like a hall was once there, therefore making the door way possibly a entrance to a stage or the like, just a thought!
And the picture of the second door shows what I am pretty certain would be a door leading to a coal bunker.The coalman would open it and tip the sacks into the bunker which would be behind it.We have a similiar blocked off door in our outhouses built in the 1840's and which originally worked as I described.
Steve JonesI don't know everything, I just like to give that impression!
I think your correct Steve as there is almost the same grate in a wall off Kepler Terrace Harehills, which goes through the wall of Primrose Hill School. When I was a kid we eventually opend it and it was our quick get away from the not so happy caretaker when we were playing in his grounds Ha!
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