Local Faces - Senza Building

On the corner of Lands Lane, this building is the former Church Institute built 1866-8 by Adams and Kelly. It contained a lecture hall for 800, a library of 10,000 books and the walls were painted with frescoes of the saints. Presumably all of this was cleared when the building was converted to shops (Senza?) and offices and the Gothic window displays added by Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson & Partners in 1980?

I seem to remember a cafe in the basement in the 1970s. We used to meet friends there on Saturday mornings, in the days when many more people spent the day in town.

The building was embroidered by Eileen Wilson.

Local Faces - The Longley Building

The Longley building houses Alan Bennett and one other.

Added after comments

Yes, it is Fanny Waterman, inspiration behind the International Pianoforte Competition, founded in 1961. She was awarded the OBE in 1971 and the CBE, for services to music, in 2000.

Merel Jackson remembers Longley's when it was a furniture store....
"I bought my dining suite, easy chairs and bedroom suite (headboard £12 extra) there in 1954.
The building is on the corner of Land's Lane and Albion Place and is indeed a Pret a Manger