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Weetwood Hall. Rebuilt by Daniel Foxcroft in 1625, his family owned this former Kirkstall Abbey estate for over a century. Later owners and tenants included members of the wealthy Denison, Oates, Marshall and Beckett families. The Printer Alf Cooke lived here 1889-1902. It was a University of Leeds women's hall of residence 1919-1991.
Otley Road, LS16 5PS, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Gertrude Maretta Paul. Born in St. Kitts, she came to England in 1956. She taught at Cowper Street School and in 1976 she was appointed here (then called Elmhurst Middle School) as the city's first black head teacher. She was one of the founders of the West Indian Carnival and a Commissioner for Racial Equality. 1934-1992
Bracken Edge Primary School, Newton Garth, LS7 4HE, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Gipton Board School. This magnificent building erected by Leeds School Board in 1897 to provide an elementary education for boys and girls up to the age of 14. Later known as Harehills Middle School, it was closed in 1986 but in 2008 was refurbished as "Shine", a centre for business, arts and the community. Architect: W. S. Braithwaite.
Harehills Road. LS8 5HS., Leeds, United Kingdom
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Crown Point Printing Works. Alf Cooke (1842-1902) began printing in 1886. He developed great skills in colour lithography producing art reproductions and portraits of the famous. In 1885 he was awarded a Royal Warrant. Following a fire, these works were entirely rebuilt in 1885 as "the largest, healthiest printing works in the world." Architect: Thomas Ambler.
Leeds City College Hunslet Road, LS10 1JY., Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Revd Charles Jenkinson. Vicar of Holbeck, transplanted his congregation here in 1937-38, having become a Leeds City Councillor in 1930 to drive through a massive and highly controversial programme of inner city slum clearance. He replaced the slums with the world famous Quarry Hill Flats and greenfield Council housing estates at Middleton, Belle Isle, Gipton, Halton and Seacroft. 1887-1949
St John & St Barnabas Church LS10 3DN, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Headingley Rugby Ground. Has been in constant use since 1890, the first game being Leeds v Manningham on 20th September. It was the venue for the first Challenge Cup Final, Batley v St. Helens, on 24th April 1897. The first ever Test Match between the Northern Union and New Zealand All Golds was played here on 25th January 1908.
St Michael's Lane, Leeds 6., Leeds, United Kingdom
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House of Faith. This house reflects the ever changing community of Chapeltown. Built soon after 1860 for residents of the affluent middle class suburb, in 1924 it became a Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, and from 1952 to 1960 the Sinai Reform Synagogue. From 1961 to 1974, as the Jinnah Mosque, it was the first mosque in Leeds.
21 Leopold St, LS7 4DA, Leeds, United Kingdom
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ORT Technical Engineering School. An ORT school was established in Berlin in 1937 to provide a technical education for Jewish boys excluded from state schools. fleeing the Nazis, in 1939 the school was relocated to Leeds. Most of the 106 boys lived here, while continuing their training at workshops in Roseville Avenue. 1940-42
New Horizons Community School, Newton Hill Road, LS7 4JE, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Leeds Civic Trust was founded on 25th October 1965 as a voluntary organisation devoted to conserving the Heritage of the City of Leeds and promoting the improvement of its built-environment and amenities. Charles H. Crabtree, the Leeds printing press manufacturer, and his family endowed it with the magnificent gift of £50,000.
17-19 Wharf Street. LS2 7EQ, Leeds, United Kingdom
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John Fowler. The Wiltshire-born Quaker engineer erected his Steam Plough Works here in 1861. Some of its buildings still stand opposite on Leathley Road. He developed the first practical method of mechanical ploughing using a cable system powered by steam engines. The system was exported worldwide. 1826-1864.
Costco Car Park. LS10 1BG, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Majestic Cinema. Brought luxury and fantasy to everyday life when it opened in June 1922. Its fan-shaped auditorium, complete with classical dome and Parthenon-style frieze, seated 2,800 cinema-goers. Music was added to the pleasures of film by the Grand Organ, the Majestic Symphony Orchestra and dinner dances in its sumptuous restaurant. Architect: Pascal J. Stienlet.
City Square, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Hepper House. Was built in 1863 as auction rooms and offices for John Hepper and Sons, the premier auctioneers and estate agents in 19th and 20th Century Leeds. Its architect, George Corson, lavished its frontage and vestibule with an eclectic mix of Romanesque and Byzantine, French and English Gothic styles.
17a East Parade, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Hunslet Engine Company Was the longest-lived firm in this dynamic area, building over one-third of the 19,000 locomotives produced in Leeds for passenger and freight trains, factories, docks, mines, tunnelling and plantations throughout the world. 1864-1995
125 Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Midland Engine Works. J & H McLaren produced steam rollers, traction and ploughing engines on this site until 1938. From 1926 they were Britain's first volume maker of high-speed diesel engines, transferring to the Airedale Works, Hunslet Road in 1946. Their products were exported worldwide. 1876-1959
Equinox Design Ltd, 100 Jack Lane, Hunslet, LS10, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House. This magnificent theatre opened in 1878 its transformative renovation in 2005-2008 included the creation of the Howard Assembly Room as an inspiring performance venue. Stars who have appeared here include: Henry Irving Sarah Bernhardt, Marie Lloyd, Laurence Olivier, Julie Andrews, Margot Fonteyn, Frankie Vaughan, John Tomlinson and Josephine Barstow. In 1978 it became the home of Opera North. Architects: George Corson and James Watson.
46 New Briggate LS1 6NZ, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Atkinson Grimshaw Landscape painter lived here 1866-70
56 Cliff Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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William Congreve. 1670-1729 Restoration Dramatist was born at Bardsey Grange 24th January 1670.
Cornmill Lane, LS17 9EQ, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Great Synagogue In 1860 the first purpose-built Synagogue in Yorkshire since the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 was erected here. Until 1983 it served the Jewish community, which had settled in the Leylands (between North Street and Regent Street) in the 19th century.
Belgrave Street LS2 8DD, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Cliff Tannery. These magnificently renovated buildings, now known as Sugarwell Court, were built by Edward Kitchen as the Cliff Tannery and Leather Works. As a premier member of the large Victorian Leeds leather industry, it specialised in East India kips and Cape and Sydney butts. Erected 1866.
Sugarwell Court, Meanwood Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Potternewton Mansion. This neat, neo-classical house, formerly Harehills Grove, was built c 1817 for James Brown woollen merchant. From 1861 to 1900 it was the home of the Jowitt family, it now belongs to Park Lane College.
Harehills Lane LS7 5HB, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Burmantofts Pottery. Coal mining and brick making began here in 1842. From 1880,using the site's fireclay, Wilcock & Co made terracotta and glazed coloured Burmantofts Faience for flower pot stands, ornaments and decorative bricks and tiles used all over the world. 1842-1957
Gargrave Court LS9 7ED, Leeds, United Kingdom
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First Leeds Synagogue This plaque was erected to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the first Leeds synagogue in 1846 in a converted house near this site in Back Rockingham Street
Merrion Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Montague Burton. "The Tailor of Taste" Making good quality, made-to-measure suits for a week's wages, Burton created a mass market. This Hudson Road headquarters, begun in 1921, was by 1925, the largest clothing factory in the world, eventually employing 10,500 people.
Hudson Road, LS9 7DN, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Polari Nish the chat and pin back you aunt nells! Spoken in the theatre, navy and by the criminal underworld, incorporating Italianate words, rhyming slang, and Romany, 'Polari' became a secret vocabulary used by the LGBT+ community, until the 19702, to cackle over a bevvy and to avoid the rozzers!
City Varieties, Swan Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
Michael Marks co-founder of Marks & Spencer, fled the pogroms in Poland in 1882. The company was founded here 1894
Kirkgate Market, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Louis Le Prince. Louis Aime August Le Prince came to Leeds in 1866 where he experimented in cinematography. In 1888 he patented a one-lens camera with which he filmed Leeds Bridge from this British Waterways building. These were probably the world's first successful moving pictures.
adjacent to the Leeds Bridge, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Tom Maguire 1866-1895 pioneer socialist & Trade Unionist was born, lived and died in this area of Leeds
Leeds Bus Station, York Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Central Station Wagon Hoist. This steam-powered railway wagon hoist was one of a pair that stood on each side of the viaduct leading to the station goods warehouse. They raised and lowered wagons between the viaduct and the goods yard below. Built for the Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North Western Railways in the 1850s, the hoists remained in use until the 1950s
Wellington Place, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Sir Clifford Allbutt 1836-1925. One of the most widely consulted physicians of his era lived here 1872-81. He was Physician at Leeds General Infirmary 1864-84 and later Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge. He is best known for inventing the short-stemmed clinical thermometer and revising 'The System of Medicine', the doctor's bible.
Lyddon Hall, University of Leeds, Virginia Rd, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Denison Hall The grandest house ever built in central Leeds was erected in 101 days for John Wilkinson upon inheriting the fortune of his uncle, the cloth merchant, Robert Denison. Its parkland setting reflected his desire for the country gentleman's lifestyle for which he soon abandoned Leeds. Built 1786
Hanover Square, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Dr Alister MacKenzie The great golf course architect lived here 1907-1929. His first designs were the courses at Alwoodley (1907) and Moortown (1909). His greatest achievements include Royal Melbourne (1926), Cypress Point, California (1928) and, most famous of all with Bobby Jones, Augusta National (1933-34). 1870 - 1934
The Corner House Club, 266 Lidgett Lane, Leeds, United Kingdom
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A.S.L.E. & F. The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen was founded in 1880. Because of the convenience and importance of Leeds as a railway centre, the Society established its first registered office here at the Commercial Inn, Sweet Street in 1881.
Commercial Inn, Sweet Street, Holbeck, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Hedley Verity, Yorkshire and England cricketer was born here. 1905-1943
Welton Grove, Leeds, United Kingdom
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"A very gallant gentleman". To commemorate Captain Lawrence E. G. Oates a member of Capt. Scott's expedition to the South Pole 1910-1912 a frequent visitor to Meanwoodside, the Oates family home. Died 17th March 1912
Meanwood Park, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Coloured Cloth Hall Leeds' most splendid Georgian cloth hall, built in 1758, stood on this site. Projecting to the centre of City Square, its massive quandrangular structure housed 1770 stalls for clothiers selling dyed woollen cloth at the Tuesday and Saturday markets.
Infirmary Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
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J. R. R. Tolkien CBE academic and author lived here between 1924 and 1925. While Reader, later Professor, at the University of Leeds 1920-1925, he collaborated on a new edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Tolkien went on to write The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. 1892-1973
2 Darnley Road, West Park, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Headingley Hall. The medieval manor house of Headingley almost certainly stood here. The Hall was rebuilt in the 17th century and 1831-6. Residents included John Killingbeck, Mayor of Leeds 1677, George Hayward, Land Agent of the Earl of Cardigan, and his son George J. W. Hayward, born here 1839, intrepid explorer in Central Asia.
Headingley Hall, Shire Oak Road, LS6, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Albert Louis Johanneson. Born and raised in South Africa, he found a new life in England. A mesmerising left winger, he made 200 appearances for Leeds United from 1961 to 1969 scoring 67 goals, playing an integral role in helping the club win promotion to the First Division in 1964. In 1965, he became the first black African to play in an F.A. Cup Final. 1940-1995
The East Stand, Low Fields Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The North Bar. This Bar Stone marks the Northern boundary of the built up area of the medieval town of Leeds
The Old Red Bus Station, Vicar Lane, Leeds, United Kingdom
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THE NEW SYNAGOGUE. This fine building was the first synagogue (1932-1985) of the United Hebrew Congregation formed in 1932. Designed by J. Stanley Wright in a style with a Byzantine flourish, it became the most popular synagogue in Leeds.
Northern School of Contempory Dance, Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH, Leeds, United Kingdom