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| Belgrave Street numbers 11 to 13 (City Centre) (2 comments) |
 | Undated.
Image shows two properties numbered 11 to 13 Belgrave Street. Number 11 (left),is listed in a Kelly's Directory of Leeds for 1921 as being occupied by Wolfe Jacobson, tailor. This property was demolished much earlier than number 13 next door. Number 13 was occupied by the caretaker of The Great Synogogue which stood at number 15, just seen at the right edge. The Great Synagogue was the first purpose-built synagogue in Yorkshire when it opened in 1860 and remained here until 1983 when it was demolished, along with number 13. The site of The Great Synagogue was given Blue Plaque status in 1991. On the left of number 11 a ginnel leads to the rear of the property.
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| Belgrave Street, The Great Synagogue, numbers 13 to 15 Belgrave Street (City Centre) (1 comment) |
| 1970s.
View of numbers 13 to 15 Belgrave Street. On the left number 13 is a two storey property which was once occupied by the caretaker of The Great Synagogue, next door, to the right, at number 15 Belgrave Street. The Great Synagogue was purpose-built (the first purpose-built synagogue in Yorkshire) and replaced the former synagogue located at a converted house in Back Rockingham Street. The architects were Perkin and Backhouse and the synagogue opened here in August 1861. Eventually, over the years, as the Jewish population of Leeds moved away from the centre, (the Leylands area, between North Street and Regent Street), membership numbers at the Great Synagogue declined. The old building required high levels of maintenance and so it closed down in 1983 and was subsequently demolished. A Blue Plaque, sponsored by The United Hebrew Association, was unveiled by Rabbi Dr Solomon Brown on 3rd February 1991 to commemorate The Great Synagogue. It is mounted on the exterior wall of an office block which now occupies the site.
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| Carlsberg-Tetley Brewery, Blue Plaque (Hunslet) |
 | 2010.
This photo taken in summer 2010 shows a Leeds Civic Trust Blue Plaque dedicated to Joshua Tetley, situated on the gate post of the Carlsberg-Tetley Brewery at the corner of Hunslet Road and Waterloo Street. The plaque reads 'Joshua Tetley (1778-1859). In 1822 Joshua Tetley bought William Sykes' brewery business which has stood here since 1792. Joshua's enterprise and fine quality ales created a reputation which for over 150 years has made the name 'Tetleys' synonymous with the City of Leeds. Sadly the Leeds connection with Tetley's is no more, following the closure of the Hunslet Road brewery by Tetley's parent company Carlsberg on 17th June 2011.
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| Garden of Rest, North Street. (Wetherby) |
| Undated.
Image shows the Garden of Rest in North Street. A blue plaque commemorates the old court house which stood on the site of the gardens.The blue plaque in the background, right, reads as follows: "This arch was originally over a passageway between two houses at West End (now Westgate) near the present library. Local tradition says that they were probably built by the descendants of Huguenot (Protestant) refugees from France. The French inscription stone reads 'Love thy neighbour as yourself, said the Evangelist' and was laid on the 19th January 1827".
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| Hick Bros, ironmongers, Leeds Bridge (City Centre) |
| 1967.
View of Hick Bros, ironmongers located on Leeds Bridge. The building has been commemorated for two historical events. An inscription on a decorative corner stone marks the founding of the 'Band of Hope' in 1847 with the involvement of prominent Leeds Temperance worker, the Reverend Jabez Tunnicliffe. More recently, a blue plaque has been mounted adjacent to it in memory of the pioneering work by Louis Le Prince who took what is thought to be the world's first sequence of moving pictures in 1888. He used a single lens camera from a position in a second floor window of Hicks Brothers. Part of the resulting piece of film can be viewed on the Home Page of the Leodis website.
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