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Leeds & County Liberal Club at night

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:45:12 -0800

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was opened by Sir James Kitson on 12 March 1890.

An interesting aside to the Leeds and County Liberal Club, is the story of Leonora Cohen, the wife of Henry Cohen a member of the club. Leonora joined the Leeds Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 that believed in direct action, but she played a largely supportive role until she was incensed by H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister and arch antisuffragist, breaking his commitment to women by announcing a Manhood Suffrage Bill to give all adult males the right to vote that she was almost overnight seized by a Votes for Women passion.

This culminated in her actions on 1st February 1913, when she produced an iron bar from under her coat in Tower of London and smashed a display case containing insignia of the Order of Merit. Her courage and articulacy when she conducted her own defence in the ensuing court case won her much admiration. When an expert witness, that her husband Henry helped her to find, stated that the cost of repairs would only be £4 10s, it enabled the jury to acquit her because it could not be proven that she had caused damage exceeding £5.

Following this she continued to take part in protests and eventually was sent to Armley Prison on remand. Here she went on hunger strike and then thirst strike. When she became very ill and weak she was released under the “Cat and Mouse Act” that allowed Hunger Strikers to be temporarily released until they recovered their strength. Henry then informed the authorities that if they re-arrested Leonara then he would not receive her back next time, and the authorities would be responsible for her death. He also at this time moved the family to Harrogate, where Leonora, a vegetarian, ran a Reform Food Boarding Establishment.

When the First World War broke out Leonora worked in a munitions factory in Leeds and joined the General and Municipal Workers Union in which she played an active part organising worker petitions and a three-day strike.

After the war, in 1918 women over 30 were given the right to vote. Leonora went on to become the first woman President of the Yorkshire Federations of Trades Councils in 1923 and the following became a magistrate, one of the first women appointed to the bench. She was JP for 25 years and received an OBE for services to public life in the mid-1920s.

Leonora had a second wind of fame when in the 1970 a new wave of feminism arose. She took part in interviews and ads to publicise a new BBC tv series, Shoulder to Shoulder, based on Sylvia Pankhurst’s book “The Suffrage Movement”.

Leonora was born in June 1873 and died in 1978. She lived at 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road in Leeds for thirteen years, where a blue plaque commemorates her life.
www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg1955/2840806655/
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article2...

Quebec Street to Queens Hotel

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:17:10 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

A view along Quebec Street towards the Queens Hotel in Leeds. The notes on the photo identify the buildings.

Leeds & County Liberal Club

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:40:27 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was opened by Sir James Kitson on 12 March 1890.

An interesting aside to the Leeds and County Liberal Club, is the story of Leonora Cohen, the wife of Henry Cohen a member of the club. Leonora joined the Leeds Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 that believed in direct action, but she played a largely supportive role until she was incensed by H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister and arch antisuffragist, breaking his commitment to women by announcing a Manhood Suffrage Bill to give all adult males the right to vote that she was almost overnight seized by a Votes for Women passion.

This culminated in her actions on 1st February 1913, when she produced an iron bar from under her coat in Tower of London and smashed a display case containing insignia of the Order of Merit. Her courage and articulacy when she conducted her own defence in the ensuing court case won her much admiration. When an expert witness, that her husband Henry helped her to find, stated that the cost of repairs would only be £4 10s, it enabled the jury to acquit her because it could not be proven that she had caused damage exceeding £5.

Following this she continued to take part in protests and eventually was sent to Armley Prison on remand. Here she went on hunger strike and then thirst strike. When she became very ill and weak she was released under the “Cat and Mouse Act” that allowed Hunger Strikers to be temporarily released until they recovered their strength. Henry then informed the authorities that if they re-arrested Leonara then he would not receive her back next time, and the authorities would be responsible for her death. He also at this time moved the family to Harrogate, where Leonora, a vegetarian, ran a Reform Food Boarding Establishment.

When the First World War broke out Leonora worked in a munitions factory in Leeds and joined the General and Municipal Workers Union in which she played an active part organising worker petitions and a three-day strike.

After the war, in 1918 women over 30 were given the right to vote. Leonora went on to become the first woman President of the Yorkshire Federations of Trades Councils in 1923 and the following became a magistrate, one of the first women appointed to the bench. She was JP for 25 years and received an OBE for services to public life in the mid-1920s.

Leonora had a second wind of fame when in the 1970 a new wave of feminism arose. She took part in interviews and ads to publicise a new BBC tv series, Shoulder to Shoulder, based on Sylvia Pankhurst’s book “The Suffrage Movement”.

Leonora was born in June 1873 and died in 1978. She lived at 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road in Leeds for thirteen years, where a blue plaque commemorates her life.
www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg1955/2840806655/
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article2...

Leeds & County Liberal Club Blue Plaque

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:42:51 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was opened by Sir James Kitson on 12 March 1890.

An interesting aside to the Leeds and County Liberal Club, is the story of Leonora Cohen, the wife of Henry Cohen a member of the club. Leonora joined the Leeds Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 that believed in direct action, but she played a largely supportive role until she was incensed by H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister and arch antisuffragist, breaking his commitment to women by announcing a Manhood Suffrage Bill to give all adult males the right to vote that she was almost overnight seized by a Votes for Women passion.

This culminated in her actions on 1st February 1913, when she produced an iron bar from under her coat in Tower of London and smashed a display case containing insignia of the Order of Merit. Her courage and articulacy when she conducted her own defence in the ensuing court case won her much admiration. When an expert witness, that her husband Henry helped her to find, stated that the cost of repairs would only be £4 10s, it enabled the jury to acquit her because it could not be proven that she had caused damage exceeding £5.

Following this she continued to take part in protests and eventually was sent to Armley Prison on remand. Here she went on hunger strike and then thirst strike. When she became very ill and weak she was released under the “Cat and Mouse Act” that allowed Hunger Strikers to be temporarily released until they recovered their strength. Henry then informed the authorities that if they re-arrested Leonara then he would not receive her back next time, and the authorities would be responsible for her death. He also at this time moved the family to Harrogate, where Leonora, a vegetarian, ran a Reform Food Boarding Establishment.

When the First World War broke out Leonora worked in a munitions factory in Leeds and joined the General and Municipal Workers Union in which she played an active part organising worker petitions and a three-day strike.

After the war, in 1918 women over 30 were given the right to vote. Leonora went on to become the first woman President of the Yorkshire Federations of Trades Councils in 1923 and the following became a magistrate, one of the first women appointed to the bench. She was JP for 25 years and received an OBE for services to public life in the mid-1920s.

Leonora had a second wind of fame when in the 1970 a new wave of feminism arose. She took part in interviews and ads to publicise a new BBC tv series, Shoulder to Shoulder, based on Sylvia Pankhurst’s book “The Suffrage Movement”.

Leonora was born in June 1873 and died in 1978. She lived at 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road in Leeds for thirteen years, where a blue plaque commemorates her life.
www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg1955/2840806655/
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article2...

Sir James Kitson

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:46:39 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat

This motto translates as: “Let he who merits the palm possess it.” The ancient Spartans would award a palm branch for achievement, and it was expected that the recipient had worked hard for their achievement.

Sir James Kitson (1835-1911), Liberal Member of Parliament for Colne Valley from 1892 to 1907, created Lord Airedale of Gledhow in 1907. He was also chairman of the family firm Kitson and Company limited, Airedale Foundry and the Monkbridge Iron and steelworks.

He lived at Gledhow Hall in Leeds. He was also the first Lord Mayor of Leeds as the name, style and title of “Lord Mayor” was only conferred in 1897, during his time as Mayor from 1896-1897.

www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2002913_68...

Quebec Street Frontage

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:41:05 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was opened by Sir James Kitson on 12 March 1890.

An interesting aside to the Leeds and County Liberal Club, is the story of Leonora Cohen, the wife of Henry Cohen a member of the club. Leonora joined the Leeds Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 that believed in direct action, but she played a largely supportive role until she was incensed by H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister and arch antisuffragist, breaking his commitment to women by announcing a Manhood Suffrage Bill to give all adult males the right to vote that she was almost overnight seized by a Votes for Women passion.

This culminated in her actions on 1st February 1913, when she produced an iron bar from under her coat in Tower of London and smashed a display case containing insignia of the Order of Merit. Her courage and articulacy when she conducted her own defence in the ensuing court case won her much admiration. When an expert witness, that her husband Henry helped her to find, stated that the cost of repairs would only be £4 10s, it enabled the jury to acquit her because it could not be proven that she had caused damage exceeding £5.

Following this she continued to take part in protests and eventually was sent to Armley Prison on remand. Here she went on hunger strike and then thirst strike. When she became very ill and weak she was released under the “Cat and Mouse Act” that allowed Hunger Strikers to be temporarily released until they recovered their strength. Henry then informed the authorities that if they re-arrested Leonara then he would not receive her back next time, and the authorities would be responsible for her death. He also at this time moved the family to Harrogate, where Leonora, a vegetarian, ran a Reform Food Boarding Establishment.

When the First World War broke out Leonora worked in a munitions factory in Leeds and joined the General and Municipal Workers Union in which she played an active part organising worker petitions and a three-day strike.

After the war, in 1918 women over 30 were given the right to vote. Leonora went on to become the first woman President of the Yorkshire Federations of Trades Councils in 1923 and the following became a magistrate, one of the first women appointed to the bench. She was JP for 25 years and received an OBE for services to public life in the mid-1920s.

Leonora had a second wind of fame when in the 1970 a new wave of feminism arose. She took part in interviews and ads to publicise a new BBC tv series, Shoulder to Shoulder, based on Sylvia Pankhurst’s book “The Suffrage Movement”.

Leonora was born in June 1873 and died in 1978. She lived at 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road in Leeds for thirteen years, where a blue plaque commemorates her life.
www.flickr.com/photos/johnnyg1955/2840806655/
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article2...

Oak staircase

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:43:15 -0700

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Balcony

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:42:39 -0700

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William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. Gladstone was President of the Leeds & County Liberal Club in 1880. Source: Quebecs: Suites.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Richmond panel

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:45:11 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

This is the coat of arms for Richmond in North Yorkshire, the Richmond Online website can be found at:
www.richmond.org/

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Liberal Club rear

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:47:07 -0700

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The back of the building, showing the stained glass panels from the outside. Leodis carries a similar photo at:
www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200243_636...

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

York panel

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:45:55 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

An explanation of the York coat of arms can be found at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_York

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Panel 1

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:48:21 -0700

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Balcony rear

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:42:18 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. He also made speeches in the Mixed (or Coloured) Cloth Hall, which at the time was across the street, to a crowd on 30,000 in 1881.
(Source: www.thoresby.org.uk/chronology.htm)

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Lion 2

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:47:48 -0700

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Lion 1

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:47:31 -0700

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Above the entrance

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:41:30 -0700

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Above the name of the building is the date it was built, 1890.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was opened by Sir James Kitson on 12 March 1890.

An interesting aside to the Leeds and County Liberal Club, is the story of Leonora Cohen, the wife of Henry Cohen a member of the club. Leonora joined the Leeds Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the organisation founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 that believed in direct action, but she played a largely supportive role until she was incensed by H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister and arch antisuffragist, breaking his commitment to women by announcing a Manhood Suffrage Bill to give all adult males the right to vote that she was almost overnight seized by a Votes for Women passion.

This culminated in her actions on 1st February 1913, when she produced an iron bar from under her coat in Tower of London and smashed a display case containing insignia of the Order of Merit. Her courage and articulacy when she conducted her own defence in the ensuing court case won her much admiration. When an expert witness, that her husband Henry helped her to find, stated that the cost of repairs would only be £4 10s, it enabled the jury to acquit her because it could not be proven that she had caused damage exceeding £5.

Following this she continued to take part in protests and eventually was sent to Armley Prison on remand. Here she went on hunger strike and then thirst strike. When she became very ill and weak she was released under the “Cat and Mouse Act” that allowed Hunger Strikers to be temporarily released until they recovered their strength. Henry then informed the authorities that if they re-arrested Leonara then he would not receive her back next time, and the authorities would be responsible for her death. He also at this time moved the family to Harrogate, where Leonora, a vegetarian, ran a Reform Food Boarding Establishment.

When the First World War broke out Leonora worked in a munitions factory in Leeds and joined the General and Municipal Workers Union in which she played an active part organising worker petitions and a three-day strike.

After the war, in 1918 women over 30 were given the right to vote. Leonora went on to become the first woman President of the Yorkshire Federations of Trades Councils in 1923 and the following became a magistrate, one of the first women appointed to the bench. She was JP for 25 years and received an OBE for services to public life in the mid-1920s.

Leonora had a second wind of fame when in the 1970 a new wave of feminism arose. She took part in interviews and ads to publicise a new BBC tv series, Shoulder to Shoulder, based on Sylvia Pankhurst’s book “The Suffrage Movement”.

Leonora was born in June 1873 and died in 1978. She lived at 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road in Leeds for thirteen years, where a blue plaque commemorates her life.
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women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article2...

Wakefield panel

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:45:32 -0700

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An explanation of the Wakefield coat of arms can be found at:
www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/HistoricWakefield/...

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Gladstone's balcony

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:41:55 -0700

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William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below.

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Leeds Coat of Arms panel

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:44:45 -0700

johnnyg1955 posted a photo:

An explanation of the Leeds coat of arms can be found at:
www.leedscivictrust.org.uk/view.aspx?id=65

The Leeds and County Liberal Club was built in 1890 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. Hidden in the heart of Leeds this wonderful Victorian building has a beautiful terracotta frontage, oak panelling and staircase, plus five heraldic stained glass windows.

“Returning along St Pauls Street, Quebec Street has another fine example of terra cotta, on the former Leeds County Liberal Club, very red, highly decorative pillars and surface-filling designs of grotesqued lions' heads, wreaths and plants.”
Taken from “A Sculpture Walk in Leeds” by Bob Speel at:
myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/leedwalk.htm

The building was designed by Chorley and Connon. William Gladstone made speeches from the corner balcony to the public gathered in Quebec Street below. The Blue Plaque on the building reads: “From Parliamentary and Municipal reform in the 1830s to 1894 The Liberal Party dominated Politics in Leeds. This splendid club in Welsh terracotta opened in 1891. Crowds were addressed from its balcony ‘on occasions of political excitement’. Chorley & Connon Architects”

Previously known as Quebec House, it was owned in the 1970s by Norwich Union and later became known as National Employers House. Since 2001 the Leeds and County Liberal Club has been Quebecs, a boutique hotel of 45 rooms, run by the Eton Collection.
www.theetoncollection.com/content.aspx?pageID=440
www.theetoncollection.com/pdfs/Quebecs_Brochure.pdf

Quebec Street was created in 1872 and named in honour of General Wolfe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe) who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in action at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Stained glass windows

nobody@flickr.com (johnnyg1955) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:44:13 -0700

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