The former Leif's pawn shop
On Leicester's famous and infamous Wharf Street, the former pawn Shop in which valuable Lees family documents were found following the clearance of Eva Lees' home in the 1960s. This was originally built as two shops (the one on the right occupying the gateway to the former Leicestershire County Cricket Ground), by Isaac Barradale in 1880. This curious building (27a and 27b) served as the area's pawn shop under proprietor Harry Leif, and for some time as a brothel, and most recently as the base for a removal business where a number of Lees family documents and scrapbooks were discovered.
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