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8th April 2025

This is the stunning Tiled Hall Cafe in the grand Leeds Art Gallery (1888), which has one of the best collections of C20 art outside London. In National Provincial, Lettice Cooper based the fictional city of 'Aire' on Leeds of the 1930s. It is where journalist Mary comes to work on the Yorkshire Guardian, a newspaper inspired perhaps by the Yorkshire Post and the Manchester Guardian (as it then was). The cafe is an ideal place to read the novel and/or the Yorkshire Post whilst enjoying a cup of tea. 

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