Sundae sent me this photo and I thought that it deserved a wider audience.
It was taken in one of the arcades in the Victoria Quarter of Leeds yesterday.
I don't know Leeds, but it seems that it didn't suffer the wholesale destruction of its older buildings in the sixties and seventies unlike some other cities.
The Victorians didn't distinguish themselves in every field of human endeavour, but their grand architecture as an expression of civic pride is unsurpassed.