LOW Street is seen here decorated for the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902, in a view which incidentally captures a varied cross-section of pedestrians and a fine white horse in action.

The flag-bedecked shop on the right, dwarfed by the giant Quaker Oats advertisement, belonged to manufacturing confectioners Messrs J Bottomley and Sons Ltd.

This firm, surviving the mysterious death and possible murder, under the Dark Arches at Leeds in 1883, of its founder, Jonas Bottomley, was by the turn of the century producing over 20 tons of sweets a week from its factory in adjoining Adelaide Street.

Especially famous were Bottomley’s lime fruit tablets and mint rock, the latter the subject of extravagant claims. “The Greatest Enemy to Bronchitis!” cried Bottomley’s mint rock advertising. “Saves Thousands of Lives from that Dreadful Disease!”