Peel Place off Main Street, Burley in Wharfedale
Business sign on 120 Main Street for Alpha Secretarial and Business Support Services with an entrance in Peel Place.
2a Peel Place, Burley in Wharfedale
Formerly the Leeds Industrial Co-Operative Society (Co-Op) butchers.
Now Nail Art. |
2 Peel Place, Burley in Wharfedale
Initially built as a Primitive Methodist Chapel in the 19th century.
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4 Peel Place, Burley in Wharfedale
Birthplace of Sir William Watson, the poet - August 2nd 1858
c1910s A. Day - Wharfedale Fish shop.
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1921 Census - William & Clara Galling - Fish & Chip Shop.
1939 - William & Eva Wheatley (1939 Register) - Fish & Chip Shop.
1985 The Seafarer - run by Jack & Edith Swales
4 Peel Place no longer the Seafarers Fish & Chips shop, now a house.
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Victoria Hall was sited at the bottom of Peel Place, where the Scout & Guide Hut is now. It occupied a part of the old Peel Park cricket pitch, home of Burley Clarence CC. (Burley District Cricket).
Built in 1888 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Its primary purpose was as a drill hall for the Burley Rifle Volunteers, a detachment of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment 3rd Battalion Rifle Corps. Outside there was a miniature rifle range. Burley residents would also use it as meeting room & all kinds of events were held there. In the 1940s and 1950s it was a cinema. Part of the A.S. Hyde Circuit - Arthur Shacklock Hyde (1900-1972), who was known as "Shack Hyde".
It was demolished in 1962
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The slightly out of focus image of Victoria Hall, Peel Place is right on the edge of an aerial photo of Burley in Wharfedale taken in 1937.
(The full image can be found here.) |
The area of open land between Victoria Hall, Park Row & the back of the Red Lion on Main Street, was used as Burley's Feast or fairground site & was originally called Peel Park.
The image below is believed to be the interior of the Victoria Hall, Peel Place, Burley in Wharfedale in the 1930s. The event was a Burley Woodhead Sunday School party.
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