Alan Whitehead's Pictures of Leeds

Leeds City Market on Vicar Lane

As well as the Victorian arcaded shopping areas, Leeds City Centre also has the largest covered market in Europe, with over 800 stalls.

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The Victoria Quarter in Leeds City Centre

The Victoria Quarter of Leeds has several beautiful shopping arcades in the city centre. The elegant Victorian architecture gives a stylish and relaxed environment and the quarter hosts many local, national and international businesses.

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The Leeds Corn Exchange

The Victorian elliptical Corn Exchange building on Call Lane, at the centre of Leeds City Centre's Kirkgate area is Grade 1 listed for its architecture. Nowadays the building has many independent shops and some food outlets and is a popular social and meeting place.

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View Up Briggate Pedestrian Zone, Leeds

Briggate is a street at the centre of Leeds and one of the most popular shopping areas.

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Thornton's Arcade in Leeds City Centre

The Victoria Quarter of Leeds has several beautiful shopping arcades in the city centre and Thornton's Arcade was the first to be built. The elegant Victorian architecture gives a stylish and relaxed environment and the quarter hosts many local, national and international businesses.

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Inside the Leeds Corn Exchange

The Victorian elliptical Corn Exchange building on Call Lane, at the centre of Leeds City Centre's Kirkgate area is Grade 1 listed for its architecture. Nowadays the building has many independent shops and some food outlets and is a popular social and meeting place.

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Inside the Corn Exchange (Partial View)

The Victorian elliptical Corn Exchange building on Call Lane, at the centre of Leeds City Centre's Kirkgate area is Grade 1 listed for its architecture. Nowadays the building has many independent shops and some food outlets and is a popular social and meeting place.

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Inside the Main Entrance of Leeds Kirkgate Market

Immediately on entering Leeds Kirkgate Market you are met by a mass of colours, smells and sounds.

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County Arcade in Leeds City Centre

The Victoria Quarter of Leeds has several beautiful shopping arcades in the city centre. The elegant Victorian architecture gives a stylish and relaxed environment and the quarter hosts many local, national and international businesses.

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Inside Kirkgate Market, showing the Red Painted Wyvern Gallery Support Brackets

Kirkgate Market's red painted, cast iron Wyverns (2 legged dragons) are a typical example of the Victorian way of making structural elements of a building decorative. In this case they are supporting the overhanging gallery above.

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Entrance To The Ship Inn Through Allyway Off Briggate

A couple of Leeds' favourite city centre pubs are accessed through narrow alleyways off Briggate, which probably originated in the Victorian times when much of the city was built.

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Whitelocks Bar in Turk's Head Yard, Off Briggate, Leeds

Whitelocks, Leeds' oldest pub was originally called the Turk's Head, after the yard where it's situated. The Whitelocks family bought and refurbished the bar in the late Victorian period and gave it their family name and much of the decorations, tiles and woodwork from that time are still in good order. This is another pub which is accessed through a narrow alleyway off Briggate. This situation probably came about due to Briggate being the site of the main market in Leeds in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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