Arcades of Leeds

A sunshine and showers day for the first day of March.

We’ve been into Leeds on the train for the first time since early December, stopping first at M & S for a free coffee. 
Wanted to look at something in the Jaeger range in M & S only to find they don’t have it in Leeds, they do in Bath! Just wanted to check sizing.  Did what I needed to do in Seasalt and got a nice unexpected buy in John Lewis. 

We returned across the city centre through the County Arcade, the entrance is centre top and seen in the thumbnail and the left hand picture and the bottom middle shot is of the crossway to the Victoria Arcade about half way up. We went  across Vicar Lane and up through Thornton Arcade, left hand picture, to take us up to the Headrow.

The arcades in Leeds are wonderful though it was slightly worrying to see so many empty shops in them. Bradford had arcades but being ‘ ahead of the game ‘ with people like Poulson they got rid of them. Interesting to see Leeds is promoting it’s  ‘Year of Culture’ ahead of Bradford’s forthcoming ‘City of Culture’ in 2025. There’s always been competition.

We had lunch and then took the train home. 
My biggest acquisition was three free books from the waiting room in Bingley station. An A-Z of Bristol and Bath. A Graham Norton novel, I’ve been fancying trying one of his reads, and a Peter Robinson I haven’t read. It’s obviously very popular there were three people queueing to look whilst we were in there. Great free finds but I had to carry them all they way there with me as well as back!



Happy Joe Tree day, apparently today although I’m sure some were celebrating it a few weeks ago.  Having been to Leeds I’m not celebrating with a tree but non the less I’m very grateful that he had the original idea of starting the daily blip. Sad that  the premise of daily seems to have been abandoned by some people.