SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

Best wishes tilly and stay away from those nurses !! keep telling the jokes.PC

Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts i count you all has friends even though i have not met most of you.Once again many thanks.Ps Back to the owls.

Lost owls of city square - the original lights in City Square had litle owls on top. Wonder where and when they went?http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliffordst ... 263636461/

Cardiarms wrote: Lost owls of city square - the original lights in City Square had litle owls on top. Wonder where and when they went?http://www.flickr.com/photos/cliffordst ... 263636461/ Wow,where did they go.and what would we do without clffordstead and all his pics

Looking at Leodis I'd say in the 60's when the square was remodelled.

cnosni wrote: Wow,where did they go. There seem to be a few perched in the various nooks and crannies of the old Post Office building.

This photo (taken today April 29 2012) shows a view if you turn to look back after entering into the Leeds Central Reference Library from Calverley Street. The main feature is a shield-like object but just below it is a small carving of an owl which I suspect may not be that well-known (it does not seem to be mentioned in the Leeds Owl Trail). I will post a closer view of the shield-like object and the owl in my next post.

This is the closer view photo. I like this small carving of a Leeds owl.

Oh, that's very sweet, and well spotted

jim wrote: cnosni wrote: Wow,where did they go. There seem to be a few perched in the various nooks and crannies of the old Post Office building. Jim they are plastic Eagle Owls taht are supposed to scare off pigeons.I say supposed as Eagle Owls,as a wild spcies,have ben extinct in the UK for many hundreds of years,and therefore the pigeons wont be scared of em.