I rather like the compositions it creates with those diagonals, and then the Liver Building rising behind.

I used to be a London Bus driver, my route was the 24, i drove past it 8 times a day, 5 times a week for 2 years

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.





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).

Amazing.

Is that the one from Victoria?



Did you like it?

The building, not the bus.

It goes through Victoria but not from it.



Yes, enough to actually look it up on the net

I worked in it for a short stint.

Well of course we can't let this comment pass without an honorary mention of Temple Mill in Leeds and a whole article dedicated to it [urlhttp://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/news/temple-mill-leeds/[/url, pure unadulterated Victorian entrepreneurship sticking two fingers up at his rivals in the city and building in a totally bizarre and unnecessary design , just because he had the money and time and will to do so - not forgetting that he then made a fortune out of the manufacturing process therein.



Temple Mill is in Holbeck, an area south of the city that housed huge swathes of the population in cramped back-to-back houses but also contained much of the heavy industry that the city grew to prominence in, the mills and the Hunslet Engine Works for instance so it was an intensively developed, probably filthy, industrialised area - why the hell would you build an Egyptian temple in the middle of it





Compare and contrast to any modern industrial estate you like and you'll see nothing of a modern equivalent either in design or simple "Balls to the rest of you" attitude amongst business leaders today.

It is remarkable looking at 19th century industrial architecture just how many flourishes were added – even to chimneys.

Well funny you should mention that





Just a short way along the river from the Temple Mill in Leeds [url=http://www.leodis.net/discovery/discovery.asp?page=200335_284221828&subsection=2003520_912014187&subsubsection=2003521_375591457&topic=200335_929714382we have a pair of rather splendid Italian Capaniles[/url although they were never bell towers but factory chimneys for "Joe Soaps", or Joseph Watson's soap works, they still stand although the main factory is long gone - but two factory chimneys built to resemble very intricate and highly decorative Italian bell towers which would hardly have been visible in the industrial landscape of the time anyway, indeed its only in recent decades that they have become as prominent as they are now.

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