Building on the corner of Bond Street and Basinghall Street

[slw]

livi wrote: I did a quick search on GENUKI and looked at the White's Directorary for 1837 - I may have gone too far back and there was a Glass China and Earthenware seller at 12 Bond Street - however not sure of the numbering for the streethttp://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Leeds ... 7aDry.html Going Places which is on the same side is 10 Bond Street .............

[Reginal Perrin]

Mystery solved then. John Yates circa 1837 before Doulton was Royal even. 172 years old at least. Good stuff.

[sundowner]

What a great find looks good enough to fit a plate glass panel over it so it comes to no harm.It would be a small price to pay to keep it in good condition.

[livi]

Now something else is intriguing me about that building and it's neighbour. Why did they survive the redevelopment. Everything else on that part of Bond Street is new or newish, apart from those two (or three) buidings, the Bond Street or Plaza as now called were built around them. It's only when you get past Boots that you get the original buildings again.Just wondered how they managed to survive - not that I am complaining

[BLAKEY]

A very similar oddity existed at the junction of Briggate and Kirkgate years ago. The large Hitchin's department store, which was later Littlewoods, had a little Stead and Simpson's shoe shop in the junction corner.

[chameleon]

livi wrote: Now something else is intriguing me about that building and it's neighbour. Why did they survive the redevelopment. Everything else on that part of Bond Street is new or newish, apart from those two (or three) buidings, the Bond Street or Plaza as now called were built around them. It's only when you get past Boots that you get the original buildings again.Just wondered how they managed to survive - not that I am complaining Could be down to simply who owns what livi. That is the situation in the Merrion Centre, Morrisons own the land their store is on, not the owners of the Merrion Centre, which is said to have cramped the latter's style at times.

[BLAKEY]

Just been along Bond Street today and admired this beautiful artifact. The shop exterior is now repainted a creamish colour and signs for "BETFRED bookies installed.

[Brandy]

.September 2009. View of a recently discovered tiled panel on the corner of number 10 Bond Street, a building which stands at the junction with Bond Street and Lower Basinghall Street. The tiles form a trompe-l'oeil, depicting an arched window through which blue skies can be seen. A table stands in front of the window on which stands a statue and a bust. There are various vessels. Entwined in the branches of an olive tree are the names of some of the great china houses; Wedgwood, Worcester, Minton and Doulton. Various businesses have occupied the premises over the years but in 1851 the firm of Samuel Tompsett Newington, Glass and China Merchant was here. Samuel Tompsett Newington was originally from Sussex and had a shop in High Holborn in the 1830s dealing in china, glass, earthenware, lamps and hardware. The 1851 Directory of Leeds (Slade & Roebuck) lists Samuel Tompsett Newington as residing at Oxley Cottage, Moor Allerton. He later retired to Kent. By the 1870's W. Hodgson was running a glass and china warehouse from number 10 Bond Street. In 1932 it was occupied by Marshall & Snelgrove, tailors. For many years Boots the Chemist Ltd had a branch here. Earlier images on Leodis show the corner of the buidling, with the tiled panel obscured from view. It has been revealed during recent works. http://snipurl.com/sb6z9co.Leodis    

[chameleon]

Took them a while to find it Brandy - think it was on here first. What#s the betting YEP see it next week?

[tyke bhoy]

chameleon wrote: Took them a while to find it Brandy - think it was on here first. What#s the betting YEP see it next week? nah its normally months not weeks before the YEP cotton on