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Title: Leeds Station Concourse 2004 - DNT00140
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Leeds Station Concourse 2004 - DNT00140
Description
The art deco concourse was built in 1938 at the same time as the adjacent Queens Hotel was rebuilt in the same style. The concourse was built to link Wellington Station, re-named City North, with New Station, re-named City South, but there remained no passenger thoroughfare between the two once through the ticket barriers. Wellington Station closed in 1966 and its site is now the station car park.
The square arches seen here on the left of the concourse around the shops and cafes originally housed the ticket barriers to Wellington Station’s platforms which were immediately behind. As a boy at school in Leeds in the 1950s David Taylor remembers regularly walking up the concourse when there were former LMS locos only a matter of metres away behind the barriers and the whole concourse was pervaded by that unmistakeable smell of steam locomotion.
The square arches seen here on the left of the concourse around the shops and cafes originally housed the ticket barriers to Wellington Station’s platforms which were immediately behind. As a boy at school in Leeds in the 1950s David Taylor remembers regularly walking up the concourse when there were former LMS locos only a matter of metres away behind the barriers and the whole concourse was pervaded by that unmistakeable smell of steam locomotion.
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David Taylor
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PHDA - David Taylor Collection
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
DNT00272.tif
Collection
Citation
Creator, “Leeds Station Concourse 2004 - DNT00140,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 23, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/32180.
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