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| Civic Hall, Aerial View (City Centre) |
 | 17th April 1965.
Civic Hall in centre, gardens to front, car park at rear. Portland Way on left. Brotherton Wing of Leeds General Infirmary bottom left. Leeds Metropolitan University, upper left. To the right, Portland Crescent, then Cookridge Street. The white tower block Kitson College now the Leeds College of Technology. Below this, Leeds Institute (Civic Theatre). Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick: opened as Leeds Mechanics Institute in 1868.
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| Civic Hall, Aerial View (City Centre) (1 comment) |
| 17th April 1965.
Rear view of Civic Hall with car park. Immediately to the front, buildings of Leeds General Infirmary. Left runs Portland Crescent, then Cookridge Street. To the right, Portland way and then Leeds Metropolitan University. Woodhouse Street runs left to right in the foreground.
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| Civic Hall, aerial view (City Centre) |
 | c1990s.
Aerial view looking north-west across rooftops to the Civic Hall, probably taken in the 1990s. Calverley Street and the Brotherton Wing of the Leeds General Infirmary can be seen on the left. Behind the Civic Hall are tall buildings of Leeds Metropolitan University, and beyond these the church spire of Emmanuel C of E Church and the white tower of the Parkinson Building of the University of Leeds. In the foreground is Cookridge Street.
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| Civic Theatre, Cookridge Street (City Centre) |
| Undated.
View of the Civic Theatre in Cookridge Street most likely taken in the 1970s. It opened as the Leeds Mechanics Institute in 1868 and underwent a change of use to the Civic Theatre in 1949. It was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick who also designed the Town Hall and the Corn Exchange. At present (2005) the theatre is closed, as in 2007 it will be reopening as the City of Leeds Museum. A new theatre has recently opened in Millennium Square appropriately named 'The Carriageworks' as it occupies the building which once housed the 'West Riding Carriage Manufactury'. The Leeds Civic Arts Guild continue to operate from the new theatre. Photograph courtesy of Stephen Howden.
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| Civic Theatre, formerly Leeds Institute (City Centre) |
| 24th March 1998.
View of the Civic Theatre building on Cookridge Street, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and originally opened as Leeds Mechanics Institute in 1868, before becoming the Civic Theatre in 1949. A large car park is seen in front. At present (2007) the Civic Theatre is once again undergoing transformation, this time to become a new museum for the city of Leeds which is due to open in 2008.
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