http://www.leodis.net/ Leodis latest Quarry Hill photographs en-gb 22 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Copyright: (C) Leeds City Council, see http://www.leodis.net for terms and conditions of reuse http://www.leodis.net/rss/ <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/32/2013218_174332.jpg" >c1970-73. View of Quarry Hill Flats showing Oastler House. St. Peter's Street runs along in front of the flats towards Eastgate Roundabout just off the picture to the left. A car ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2013218_174332 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/34/2012228_173334.jpg" >Undated. View of Quarry Hill Flats from New York Road. Neilson House is on the right followed by Moynihan House. The roundabout at the junction with Regent Street, Mabgate and Eas... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2012228_173334 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/00/2011126_173000.jpg" >c28th November 1966. Looking north-east along Eastgate towards New York Road with construction work taking place at the Lady Beck covering in the foreground. The building just vis... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2011126_173000 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/99/2011126_172999.jpg" >c28th November 1966. View looking north-east along Eastgate showing the Employment Exchange on the left and part of Quarry Hill Flats on the right. Construction work is taking pla... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2011126_172999 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/44/20111123_172944.jpg" >28th November 1966. Close-up view of the Lady Beck covering at Eastgate. The view, taken from underneath the covering, shows the beck flowing through a stone channel and under a b... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20111123_172944 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/43/20111123_172943.jpg" >28th November 1966. Close-up view from inside the Lady Beck covering at Eastgate. The covering has been opened up while construction work takes place. Part of Quarry Hill Flats is... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20111123_172943 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/42/20111123_172942.jpg" >c 28th November 1966. View of Eastgate showing the Lady Beck covering which is undergoing some construction work. The beck flows under a bridge which has been uncovered but is to ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20111123_172942 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/41/20111123_172941.jpg" >28th November 1966. View shows construction work taking place at the Lady Beck covering on Eastgate. Part of Quarry Hill Flats can be seen on the right. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20111123_172941 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/63/2011726_172463.jpg" >Undated. View of the newly constructed York Road section of Inner Ring Road (A64) just before it crosses Regent Street, centre left, and Eastgate, right. The large buildings with ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2011726_172463 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/62/2011726_172462.jpg" >Undated. Construction is underway on the York Road (A64)flyover at the junctions with Eastgate and Regent Street. On the left, Quarry Hill flats are visible and the part that juts... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2011726_172462 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/33/20101129_171533.jpg" >1938. A queue of people line up outside Quarry Hill Flats on their opening day in 1938, waiting to have a look inside the revolutionary new dwellings, built using the Mopin system... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20101129_171533 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/56/2010818_171156.jpg" >1991. View from Shannon Street taken during the construction of Quarry House in the autumn of 1991. This government building opened in 1993 as the headquarters of the Department o... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010818_171156 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/55/2010818_171155.jpg" >1993. View looking from Shannon Street to the newly built Quarry House in the spring of 1993. This was to be the new headquarters for the Department of Health and Social Security,... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010818_171155 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/89/2010125_170089.jpg" >16th July 1937. Aerial view of the Quarry Hill area where work is in progress on the construction of Quarry Hill Flats, top centre. Roads around the building site are, from top le... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010125_170089 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/46/2010112_170046.jpg" >c1974/1975. View from the interior of the Quarry Hill Flats complex. It shows Oastler House, named after Richard Oastler (1789-1861) who was born close by in St. Peter's Square. H... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010112_170046 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/43/2010112_170043.jpg" >c1974/1975. Image taken looking into the yard giving access to the employment and goods entrances of William Read Ltd., wholesale costumiers. The factory fronts Duke Street at the... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010112_170043 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/42/2010112_170042.jpg" >c1974/1975. This view was taken inside the Quarry Hill Flats complex looking out through the arched entrance of Priestley House to St. Peter's Square. Opposite the entrance are tw... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010112_170042 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/41/2010112_170041.jpg" >C1974/1975. Two people are seen coming through one of the arched entrances at Quarry Hill Flats. The image shows the flats in a dilapidated state with some broken window panes. De... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2010112_170041 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/23/2009922_169423.jpg" >1969. Image shows the frontage of Millgarth Street Police Station taken in 1969. Millgarth Street Police Headquarters opened here in 1878 with a barracks and mortuary on the site.... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009922_169423 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/30/200986_169330.jpg" >late 1930s. Aerial view showing Quarry Hill flats under construction, centre. Snaking down from the top left is York Road next to an area marked as 'York Road re-development area'... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200986_169330 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/12/2009713_169312.jpg" >c1960s. In this image a woman sits on the grass beside beds of tulips at the edge of St. Peter's Graveyard. A man in a black jacket can be seen walking in York Street behind her. ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009713_169312 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/11/2009713_169311.jpg" >1963. View of Leeds City Bus Station possibly taken from a window of a factory at the corner of Duke Street with York Street. A car is visible in York Street, left and the domes o... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009713_169311 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/96/2009224_168496.jpg" >16th June 1999. Aerial view of Quarry Hill, the site of the notorious Quarry Hill Flats which were demolished in the mid 1970s. Now it is occupied by Quarry House at the top of th... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009224_168496 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/95/2009224_168495.jpg" >16th June 1999. Aerial photograph of Quarry Hill, formerly the site of Quarry Hill Flats, demolished in the mid 1970s. The area is now dominated by Quarry House, the Department of... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009224_168495 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/79/2009216_168379.jpg" >Undated. Image shows the red brick built St. Patrick's Church at the right-hand side and also York Road Flyover from the left. In the background, Quarry House, the state-of-the-ar... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009216_168379 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/78/2009216_168378.jpg" >Undated. Image shows Quarry House under construction. It was to become the new Headquarters for the Department of Health and Social Security. The building opened in 1993 on the fo... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009216_168378 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/77/2009216_168377.jpg" >Undated. Image shows Quarry House under construction on the former site of Quarry Hill flats. This was to be the new headquarters for the Department of Health and Social Security.... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2009216_168377 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/48/200827_166048.jpg" >c1991/92. View of Stage 5 construction work on the Inner Ring Road looking east from the vicinity of the Quarry Hill Footbridge. On the left is the eastbound flyover carrying the ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200827_166048 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/47/200827_166047.jpg" >c1991/2. View of Quarry House, the new Department of Health and Social Security, under construction. In the foreground the slip road from the A64 at Woodpecker Junction rounds th... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200827_166047 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/46/200827_166046.jpg" >c1991/2. A workman on an access platform is painting the footbridge crossing the York Road flyover at Quarry Hill. It is adjacent to Quarry House which at the time was in the proc... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200827_166046 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/45/200826_166045.jpg" >c1991/2. View of Quarry House under construction on the former site of Quarry Hill flats. This £55 million project was to provide new headquarters for the London based Department ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200826_166045 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/44/200826_166044.jpg" >c1991/2. Two workmen on an access platform are painting the footbridge over York Road Flyover. The footbridge crosses the road from Quarry House, the Department of Health and Soci... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200826_166044 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/43/200826_166043.jpg" >c1991/2. View from Woodpecker Junction looking north-west showing the £7.5 million scheme, Stage 5 of the Inner Ring Road well underway. In the foreground is the slip-road from th... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200826_166043 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/42/200826_166042.jpg" >c1991/2. Image shows Quarry House under construction, the new headquarters for the Department of Health and Social Security. It occupies the site of Quarry Hill flats which were d... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200826_166042 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/41/200826_166041.jpg" >c1991/92. View looks west down the slip road off York Road (A 64) from Woodpecker Junction and Marsh Lane. The junction is named after the Woodpecker Public House which stood at... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200826_166041 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/40/200826_166040.jpg" >c1991/2. Image shows Stage 5 of the Inner Ring Road under construction. The newly constructed westbound flyover is just visible below the eastbound flyover. Looking beneath the sl... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200826_166040 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/39/200826_166039.jpg" >c1991/92. Construction work is in progress on Stage 5 of the Inner Ring Road, a £7.5 million scheme which opened in February 1992. It involved constructing a westbound flyover in ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200826_166039 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/06/2008124_165906.jpg" >Undated. View of the West Yorkshire Playhouse taken at night. Built on the site of the old Quarry Hill Flats, it was opened on 8th March 1990 by Dame Diana Rigg. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2008124_165906 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/68/20071112_165268.jpg" >Undated View of the walkway leading to the entrance to Quarry House, the Department of Health headquarters opened in 1993 on the site of the former Quarry Hill Flats. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20071112_165268 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/07/20071029_165107.jpg" >Undated View showing the grounds of Quarry House, with part of the building itself visible in the background. Tree-lined steps lead up towards the entrance. Opened in 1993, these ... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20071029_165107 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/06/20071029_165106.jpg" >Undated View showing the grounds of Quarry House, the government building on the site of the former Quarry Hill Flats, which is home to the Department of Health and the Department... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20071029_165106 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/65/2007824_164565.jpg" >C1970s. Image is take from Quarry Hill Flats where demolition is in progress. The flats were demolished between 1975 and 1978. St Mary's Church, located between New church Place a... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164565 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/64/2007824_164564.jpg" >C1970s. Images shows demolition in progress on Quarry Hill Flats which took place between 1975 and 1978. West Yorkshire Playhouse (built 1990), Quarry House (1992 - 1993) and Coll... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164564 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/63/2007824_164563.jpg" >C1970s. View through trees in blossom to Quarry Hill Flats which are in the process of being demolished. Demolition began with Jackson House on 25th September 1975 and the whole c... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164563 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/62/2007824_164562.jpg" >C1970s. Close-up view of demolition in progress on Quarry Hill Flats. Demolition began in 1975 and was finally completed in June 1978. Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164562 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/59/2007824_164559.jpg" >C1970s. Scaffolding is in place on Quarry Hill flats as demolition is in progress. This is Nielson House with what was originally an archway for vehicles. This was blocked off in... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164559 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/58/2007824_164558.jpg" >C1970s. View of demolition in progress on Quarry Hill flats which took place between September 1975 and June 1978. Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164558 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/57/2007824_164557.jpg" >C1970s. Image shows Quarry Hill Flats undergoing demolition. Demolition took place between September 1975 and June 1978. Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164557 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/56/2007824_164556.jpg" >C1970s. View of Quarry Hill Flats through the trees as they undergo demolition. Demolition was completed between 1975 and 1978. Photograph courtesy of Terry Cryer. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164556 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill <img src="http://www.leodis.net/imagesLeodis/thumbnail/70/2007814_164470.jpg" >c1990s Evening view of the West Yorkhsire Playhouse in Playhouse Square. It comprises of the 750 seater Quarry Theatre, the 350 seater Courtyard Theatre, a bar, restaurant, the Ne... http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007814_164470 Local Studies Collection - Central Library Quarry Hill