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[1]Art Gallery, refurbishment (City Centre)
Art Gallery, refurbishment19th April 2007. View of Leeds City Art Gallery taken during a £1.5 million refurbishment programme in early 2007. The archway on the left, just opened up, leads to adjoining Central Library through the newly restored Victorian Tiled Hall in the room that once house the Commercial and Technical Library. This is the first time since the 1950s that access to the Central Library has been possible from the building that was built as an extension to the Municipal Buildings in 1888.
[2]Central Library, Local Studies Library (City Centre)
Central Library, Local Studies Library19th April 2007. View showing the new Local Studies Library, on the second floor of of the Central Library, following a reorganisation in which Local Studies swapped places with the Business and Research Library at the other end of the floor. This was one of several changes made in this major reorganisation, with the Art and Music Libraries also swapping places and the fully restored Tiled Hall reopening shortly afterwards as a cafe and shop area.
[3]Central Library, Tiled Hall (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall19th April 2007. View showing the elaborately tiled ceiling of the Victorian Tiled Hall in the Central Library, taken shortly before the hall was opened up again as a cafe and shop area for the Library and adjoining Art gallery. The ceiling, for so long hidden from view by a mezzanine floor level while the room was occupied by the Commercial and Technical Library, has been restored to its original glory.
[4]Central Library, Tiled Hall Cafe (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall Cafe29th June 2007 View of the Tiled Hall in the Central Library, opened as a cafe in June 2007, showing the entrance to the Art Gallery on the left. When the Municipal Buildings were opened on 17th April 1884 by the Mayor of Leeds, Alderman Edwin Woodhouse, this was the Reading Room and was used for the opening ceremony. After the adjoining Art Gallery opened on 3rd October 1888 the Tiled Hall was converted into a sculpture gallery. It remained so until 1955 when the Commercial and Technical Library moved into this space and the ceiling and walls of the Hall became hidden for many years behind a false ceiling, bookcases and panelling. The Music Library then occupied this room between 1998 and 1999. After the library re-opened in 2000 following rewiring and refurbishment, the Hall was closed to the public until the recent restoration which brought its original magnificence back into view.
[5]Central Library, Tiled Hall Cafe (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall Cafe29th June 2007. View of the new Tiled Hall Cafe in the Central Library building, opened in June 2007, also accessible through the Art Gallery. The room has been restored to its former glory as a Victorian Tiled Hall, following many years when the decorative features of the hall were covered up while the room was being used as the Commercial and Technical Library.
[6]Central Library, Tiled Hall cafe and shop (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall cafe and shop29th June 2007. View of the newly restored Tiled Hall in the Central Library, which opened up as a cafe and shop in June 2007, also serving the adjoining Art Gallery, now linked to the Municipal Buildings through the archway on the left.
[7]Central Library, Tiled Hall Cafe and Shop (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall Cafe and Shop29th June 2007. View of the new cafe and shop in the Tiled Hall of the Central Library, adjacent to the Art Gallery. Opened in June 2007, this hall is now restored to its former magnificence with a highly decorative Victorian tiled ceiling and walls.
[8]Central Library, Tiled Hall shop (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall shop29th June 2007. View of the Central Library/Art Gallery shop which opened up in the Tiled Hall, alonside a cafe, in June 2007. The highly decorated walls and ceiling of the Hall have been restored to much like the original state they would have been in when the Municipal Buildings opened on 17th April 1884 and this space was occupied by the Reading Room. At the time The Yorkshireman described the room as 'a magnificent place' and feared that the spectacular ceiling would mean that 'people will be continually gazing up at it, instead of quietly reading the magazines and newspapers'.
[9]Central Library, Tiled Hall shop (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall shop29th June 2007. View of the new shop for the Central Library and Art Gallery, opened up in the restored Tiled Hall in the Municipal Buildings in June 2007. This magnificent example of Victorian architecture had been hidden from view for so many years, since the space had been taken over by the Commercial & Technical Library in the 1950s and had had a mezzanine floor level put in and shelves covering all the walls.
[10]Central Library, Tiled Hall, carving (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, carving19th April 2007. View of one of a series of carvings of literary figures which adorn the walls of the Tiled Hall in the Central Library, this one depicting Sir Walter Scott. The magnificent tilework around demonstrates the splendour of the hall which was in the process of restoration before being reopened to the public in june 2007 as a shop and cafe.
[11]Central Library, Tiled Hall, carving (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, carving19th April 2007. View showing one of a series of carvings of literary figures to be seen in the Tiled Hall in Central Library, taken during restoration work on the hall prior to its reopening to the public in June 2007. This carving depicts the Ancient Greek poet Homer.
[12]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. View showing the Tiled Hall in the Central Library, during work in progress to restore this magnificent hall to its original Victorian splendour. Formerly occupied by the Commercial and Technical Library and later the Music Library but closed since 1999, the fully restored hall was finally opened to the public again in June 2007 as a cafe and shop linking the Library with the adjoining Art Gallery.
[13]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. View of a doorway in the Tiled Hall of the Central Library, during work in progress to restore this impressive hall to its original state, before its reopening in June 2007 as a cafe and shop area.
[14]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. Close-up view of some of the impressive tilework on the wall and ceiling of the Tiled Hall in the Central Library. This magnificent hall was fully restored to its original Victorian state before being reopened to the public in June 2007 as a shop and cafe, after having been closed since 1999.
[15]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. View showing a doorway of the Tiled Hall in the Central Library, during work in progress to restore this Victorian hall to its original splendour before its reopening in June 2007 as a shop and cafe.
[16]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. View showing work in progress on the restoration of the Victorian Tiled Hall in the Central Library to its former glory. Once the home of the Commercial and Technical Library and then the Music Library, this room was closed to the public for several years before finally reopening, fully restored, in June 2007 as a shop and cafe linking the Library to the Art gallery, which is now accessible through the archway at the back.
[17]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. Close-up view of some of the impressive tilework in the Tiled Hall at the Central Library, during restoration work that would return this room to a state resembling that of its former Victorian splendour. The hall reopened to the public in 2007 as a shop and cafe area.
[18]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. View of a corner of the Tiled Hall in the Central Library, during restoration work to return this room to its original Victorian splendour. In June 2007 the restored hall was reopened to the public as a new cafe and shop linking the Central Library to the adjoining Art Gallery.
[19]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. View showing part of the Tiled Hall in the Central Library during work in progress to restore the magnificent Victorian architecture to this room, bringing it back to something like the original state of the hall when built in 1884 to the Byzantine-Romanesque designs of George Corson. The Tiled Hall was reopened in June 2007 as a cafe and shop linking the Library with the adjoining Art Gallery.
[20]Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration (City Centre)
Central Library, Tiled Hall, Restoration19th April 2007. View of part of the Tiled Hall in the Central Library, during work in progress to restore this hall to its former Victorian magnificence, before its reopening in June 2007 as a cafe and shop linking the Library with the Art Gallery.