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![Can you date this photo of Briggate?](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTEzOTk2NDE4.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
![This postcard view shows Upper Briggate revitalised by the demolition of the seven slaughter houses which occupied its yards on the east side. They were replaced by the County Arcade, Queen Victoria Street and King Edward Street.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTEzOTk2NDE5.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
2. 1904
This postcard view shows Upper Briggate revitalised by the demolition of the seven slaughter houses which occupied its yards on the east side. They were replaced by the County Arcade, Queen Victoria Street and King Edward Street.
![Houses on west side of Lower Briggate, just below the junction with Boar Lane where Dysons Jewellers is now located.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTEzOTk2NDIw.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
3. 1860
Houses on west side of Lower Briggate, just below the junction with Boar Lane where Dysons Jewellers is now located.
![Flags have been hung out on Briggate to celebrate the relief of Mafeking. This was a town in South Africa which had been besieged by Boer troops for 27 weeks.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTEzOTk2NDIx.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
4. May 1900
Flags have been hung out on Briggate to celebrate the relief of Mafeking. This was a town in South Africa which had been besieged by Boer troops for 27 weeks. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
![Burtons on Briggate.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTEzOTk2NDIy.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
![Road straddling traffic indicators on Briggate.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTEzOTk2NDIz.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)