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Back in October 1990 the covers came off a huge city centre mural created by artist Graeme Willson depicting the city's illustrious trading past.

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Unveiling the finished 32ft high mural, the former director of Leeds Polytechnic Dr Patrick Nuttgens congratulated the artist, adding the piece "brought another dimension of life back to Leeds".

The Cornucopia was unveiled in October 1990.

The Cornucopia - overlooking Vicar Lane and completely covering the side of a building - highlights the architecture of the Corn Exchange and, market buildings and the White Cloth Hall, with painted stone carvings of statues, fruit and corn.

An earlier work by Graeme Willson, the enormously long mural, Inner City Development, was demolished during the development of Millennium Square in Leeds. It had backed on to the Electric Press Building and faced the site on Cookridge Street which had been occupied by Cuthbert Brodrick’s Oriental Baths.

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The Cornucopia in 2020. PIC: Lydia Taylor

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The day an iconic landmark was unveiled high above the streets of Leeds