Quote: JerryChicken "...The study of architecture is always fascinating and on the rare occasions that I get dragged by the females into Leeds then I stand around outside various shops waiting for them to do whatever the hell it is that women do in their womens shops, and I stare at the upper floors of whatever street I am stood in ... '"
I, like you, do that "upward looking" thing in Leeds and you see stuff like "Thornton and Co, India Rubber Manufacturers" above a shop front just a bit further up Briggate from M&S, very rewarding sometimes.
I heartily recommend buying/borrowing a copy of the latest version Of [iPevsner's Architectural Guide to Leeds[/i (as updated by Susan Wrathmell) ... it has short walks in the City Centre in it and I guarantee it will point out stuff that the lifelong Loiner never knew.
Quote: JerryChicken "... up above the corporate branding vandalism of most of our high streets are the story of the high street and on main thoroughfares like Briggate in Leeds you get the full history of the city and an idea of how affluent some of the Victorian and Edwardian developers were - why else would you decorate the outside of your building with terracotta trimmings... '"
Aha, a Burmantofts-faced building? (e.g. Atlas House which houses the Allied Irish Bank in King Street, faced in "Marmo" ... or e.g. The interior of the cafe in the City Library, a great place to leaf through that Pevsner ... fantastic).
