{{Short description|Street in Leeds, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use British English|date=October 2023}} [[File:Albion Street, Leeds (14th November 2018) 001.jpg|thumb|right|Southern part of Albion Street, looking south, in 2018]] '''Albion Street''' is a road in the city centre of [[Leeds]], a city in England.
==History== The street was constructed between 1790 and 1791,<ref>{{cite web |title=Commercial Street |url=https://www.thoresby.org.uk/content/pictures/commerecialst.php |website=The Thoresby Society |access-date=19 October 2023}}</ref> with an initial requirement that only housing could be constructed along it. This gradually changed, with a music hall being constructed in 1792/3, with a small hall underneath for trading in cloth. In 1802, a Methodist Chapel opened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Albion Street nos. 19 - 33 |url=https://leodiscollections.net/photo/146 |website=Leodis Collections |publisher=Leeds City Libraries |access-date=19 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Baines |first1=Thomas |title=Yorkshire, Past and Present |date=1870 |publisher=Mackenzie}}</ref> By the 1850s, buildings on the street included the General Post Office, the American Consulate, the Inland Revenue Office, Coroner's Office, Clerk of the Peace's Office, Stock Exchange Hall, and the Catholic Literary Institution.<ref>{{cite book |title=An historical guide to Leeds and its environs |date=1858 |publisher=T. Fenteman & Sons}}</ref>
During the 20th century, the street became lined with shops, including a large [[Leeds Co-operative Society]] store.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Andrew |title=Go inside the Co-op's flagship Leeds Albion Street store during the 1980s |url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/go-inside-the-co-ops-flagship-leeds-albion-street-store-during-the-1980s-2850817 |access-date=19 October 2023 |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=16 May 2020}}</ref> The southern part of the street was pedestrianised in 1970.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Andrew |title=Changing Leeds - Walk down Albion Street during the 1980s |url=https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/changing-leeds-walk-down-albion-street-during-the-1980s-2922573 |access-date=19 October 2023 |work=Yorkshire Evening Post |date=24 July 2020}}</ref>
==Layout and architecture== [[File:Albion_Street,_Leeds_(31st_May_2018)_003.jpg|thumb|right|Northern part of Albion Street, looking north, in 2018]] The street runs north, starting at [[Boar Lane]], opposite the entrance to New Station Street. It passes underneath part of the [[Trinity Leeds]] shopping centre, to a crossroads with [[Commercial Street, Leeds|Commercial Street]] and Bond Street. It continues past Albion Place and Short Street, to a crossroads with [[Headrow]]. Passing between [[The Light, Leeds|The Light]] and [[St John's Centre]], it has junctions with Wormald Row and St Anne's Street, ending at a junction with Merrion Street and Great George Street, beyond which its continuation is Woodhouse Lane.
Other than the shopping centres, notable buildings on the street include Moorlands House, built in the 1850s as the headquarters of the Leeds and West Yorkshire Assurance Company.<ref>{{NHLE |desc=Moorlands House |num=1256606 |accessdate=19 October 2023}}</ref>
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[[Category:Streets in Leeds]]