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Demolition at Virginia Road, Leeds

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1933 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Demolition at Virginia Road, Leeds

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1933

Creator(s): Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)

Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 photographic print.

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/r3w5gtbp

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412883

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Demolition work in progress in the area around Virginia Road, Leeds (West Yorkshire). The spired building in the centre of the image is the Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds; and the building to the left of it is the back of the modern School of English main building.

Biography or history

The Survey of English Dialects was based in offices on Virginia Road until 1959. Much old terraced housing on the site of the University of Leeds campus was demolished to make way for new University buildings. This included housing on Virginia Road.

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