Archivists in Leeds have built a photographic library of almost 70,000 pictures of the city.
A building once owned by an ancient order of knights is among the lost Leeds landmarks recorded by librarians.
The project aims to curate the Leodis gallery, an online photographic archive of more than 68,000 images of Leeds. The building became The Old George in 1815 with Charlotte Bronte later dropping in on her way to Belgium and describing its interior in her 1847 novel Jane Eyre.In 1889 the Leeds Corporation paid £66,000 for the Mixed Cloth Hall so they could clear it away for what is today City Square and the General Post Office building
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