Former school building, Pontefract Lane, Leeds
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Former school building, Pontefract Lane, Leeds
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 29 Jun 2018
This building is marked on large scale maps from 1893 to the 1930s as a Sunday School. If so, it was not related to All Saints church along the road as that had its own adjacent school building. One local history website refers to the Leeds Friends Adult School which moved to Pontefract Lane in 1890, so that might have been its real use - adult education rather than RE for children. But another local website suggests it was a chapel (denomination not stated). After closure it became a sweet warehouse (again according to local people's memories online), and is now part of Country Style Foods who have recently also acquired the (1980s replacement) All Saints church as their training centre.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.796041
Longitude
-1.520847