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Whitkirk Manor House. The courts of the Manors of Whitkirk and Temple Newsam met here. John Wesley reputedly preached in the Garden. Houses in the Manor of Whitkirk were distinguished by a Templar Cross.
Colton Road. LS15 9AA, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Martin and Synge. This gateway once led to the laboratories of Wool Industries Research Association where Archer Martin and Richard Synge developed partition chromotography and for which they were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Headingley Lane, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The New Penny. This late Victorian public house was formerly known as the Hope and Anchor. Since 1953 it has provided a safe venue for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* community both before and following the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967. Renamed The New Penny in 1975, it is one of the longest continually running LGB&T* venues in the UK.
The Calls, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Thomas Edmund Harvey, 1875-1955, Leeds born and bred and a profoundly committed Quaker, he was a politician, social reformer, British Museum curator, Warden of Toynbee Hall and a Quaker historian. When Liberal MP for Leeds West (1910-18) he successfully campaigned for the rights of conscientious objectors during the First World War. Lived here 1923-1955
Rydal House, 5 Grosvenor Terrace, Headingley, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Queens Court. This historic courtyard occupies one of the 60 burgage plots which abutted Briggate in the Middle Ages. It is fronted by an eight-bayed woollen cloth merchant's house (built c.1714) and contains the merchant's cloth finishing shops and warehouses.
passage between Call Lane and Briggate, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Victoria Hotel was built in 1865 to serve people attending the Assize Courts newly held at Leeds Town Hall. Its stylish accommodation then comprised spacious dining rooms and bars, a billiard room and large meeting room, private sitting rooms and 28 bedrooms.
Oxford Place, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Aire and Calder Navigation Before the railway age, the making navigable of the River Aire importantly made Leeds an inland port connected directly to Hull. Cheap water carriage was vital for the successful export of the cloth marketed and finished in the town. Opened 1700
Navigation Warehouse, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Bank of England The Bank of England opened a branch in Leeds in 1827 These premises, entered from South Parade, were designed by Phillip Hardwick and erected 1862-64. The Bank remained on this site until moving to King Street in 1971.
Park Row, Leeds, United Kingdom
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St. Michael's College. Opened in 1909, this Gothic Revival building was the first Catholic grammar school for boys in Leeds. Established by the Jesuits, its role was to enable the predominantly working-class Catholic community in The West Riding to raise its social status and material wellbeing. Architect: Fr. Benedict Williamson S. J.
CQ The Court, Clarendon Quarter, St John’s Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Benjamin Gott. The rise of this pioneering Leeds Industrialist was meteoric. At the age of 30 he built the world's woollen mill. Vast in scale, its 1000 workers made superfine cloth, army cloth and blankets exported worldwide. Using his wealth to buy this estate, he had its grounds landscaped by Humphry Repton. The house whose remodelling in neo-Grecian style is attributed to Sir Robert Smirke, was filled with paintings, sculpture and books. 1762- 1840
Gotts Park Golf Club, Armley Ridge Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Agnes Logan Stewart. Between 1872-1880 this religious educational and social benefactor established an orphanage and two schools in this area with her own money. Her legacy to support the education of East Leeds children enabled the building of Agnes Stewart Church of England High School in 1965 on this site. 1820-1886
Bridge Community Church, Rider Street, LS9 7BQ, Leeds, United Kingdom
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William Gascoigne pioneer of modern precision astronomy, inventor of the telescopic sight and the telescope micrometer lived at New Hall on this site. He lost his life in the English Civil War at the age of 32. c.1612-1644
Town Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Catherine Mawer. The stone carvings on this building include work by this master sculptor and astute businesswoman, who successfully ran the family stoneyard on Great George Street. Her work includes the Corinthian capitals and ornamental roof turrets on Leeds Town Hall. She also carved the listed Mawer memorial in Woodhouse. 1803-1877
48 Albion Street LS1 6AB, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Marshall's Mill. Mechanical improvements developed by his employee Matthew Murray enabled Leeds industrialist John Marshall (1765-1845) to pioneer mass produced flax spinning on this site from 1790. His 2000 strong workforce, mainly women and children, used machines powered by the Hol Beck and a Boulton and Watt steam engine.
Marshall Street LS11 9YJ, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Central Higher Grade School This imposing school was erected by Leeds School Board as the town's first local authority secondary school. Renamed City of Leeds School in 1928, it merged with Thoresby High School in 1972, and moved to a new site in 1994. Opened 1889
Great George Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Wortley Grammar School was founded in 1677 by the bequest of Samuel Sunderland to teach boys English or Latin. It occupied this new schoolroom from 1814 to 1909 when the school closed. Notable pupils included mathematician and judge, C. J. Hargreave, banker and Leeds Mayor, Henry Oxley, and brickworks owner, Joseph Cliff
Lower Wortley Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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George Edwin Ellison. 82,000 Leeds men and women served in the First World War, many departing from the city's railway stations. Over 10,000 never returned. They included George Edwin Ellison from Richmond Hill- a miner, husband and father. He was tragically killed just 90 minutes before the final armistice ceasefire on 11th November 1918: the last British person to die in action.
Leeds City Railway Station, City Square., Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Mawer Group. The fine carvings adorning this building are examples of the work of these skilled and prolific Leeds-based Victorian architectural sculptors. They provided decorative stonework for many important secular, religious and civic buildings and structures. Leeds Town Hall and Trent Bridge are two of their most noted commissions. Sculptor: William Ingle
30 Park Place, Leeds, United Kingdom
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R. A. H. Livett OBE. This house represents one of the thousands masterminded by this pioneering Leeds Director of Housing and later City Architect. Inspired by the latest European designs, he championed modernist council housing for the people of Leeds. His other schemes include Quarry Hill, the Halton Moor Estate and Saxton Gardens. 1898-1959
73 Wykebeck Valley Road, Gipton, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Leeds Rifles. A volunteer corps raised by resolution of Leeds Town Council in 1859 when the Government feared the French might invade Britain. This headquarters, Carlton Barracks, was built in 1887 and remained the home of the Leeds Rifles until disbandment in 1969.
Carlton Barracks, Carlton Hill, LS7, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Jim Bullock OBE The youngest of twelve children lived here in Bowers Row pit village. He left school at thirteen and went down the pit as a pony driver, rising through the mining hierarchy to become National President of the British Association of Colliery Management. 1903-1995
Bowers Row Chapel, Great Preston, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Keith Waterhouse. Born in nearby Low Road, his childhood love of reading led him to become a celebrated journalist, novelist, playwright and satirist. He began as a reporter with the Yorkshire Evening Post before pursuing a distinguished Fleet Street career. His creations include Billy Liar and the sitcom Queenie's Castle filmed on Quarry Hill. 1929-2009
Waterloo Street, Hunslet LS10 2NS, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Jackie Hill. Sister, daughter, housemate, friend, fiancé, gentle and caring person, lovely kind girl, endearingly silly sense of humour, funny, clever, English student, Sunday School teacher, probation service volunteer, brought only goodness to the world, she was everything people wanted their daughter to be. Silver Girl.
Alma Road, Headingley, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Barnbow Royal Ordnance Factory was built 1939-40 to make armaments for the Second World War. Employing at its peak 3000 workers including 2000 women, it produced around 9000 guns - 6 and 25 pounders, 3.7 inch anti-aircraft guns, 40mm Bofors and 17 pounders for Sherman tanks. Between 1945 and closure in 1999, over 4000 Centurion, Chieftain and Challenger tanks were built here.
Austhorpe Lane Leeds 15, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Celebrating the Birth of Rugby League RLF 120 years 1895-2015 On this site on 21st September 1895, Leeds played their first home game under the rules of Rugby League (then known as the Northern Union) Leeds v Brighouse
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Fanny Passavant. Was appointed librarian of the Yorkshire College in 1884 and became the first librarian of the University of Leeds on its establishment in 1904. The library was originally located here and underwent considerable expansion under her direction, containing 80,000 volumes when she retired in 1919. 1849-1944
University Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Leeds Library A proprietary subscription library founded in 1768 with Joseph Priestley as Secretary. Since 1808 it has occupied these purpose-built premises designed by Thomas Johnson. The first-floor reading room and Thomas Ambler's 'New Room' extension are amongst the architectural wonders of Leeds.
18 Commercial Street, LS1, Leeds, United Kingdom
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The Railway Roundhouse was built in 1847 to accommodate 20 locomotives or the Leeds & Thirsk Railway. The adjacent crescent-shaped repair shop, forges and fitting shops were used to build and maintain locomotives until 1904. No comparable group of railway buildings now survives in this country. Designed by Thomas Grainger.
The Roundhouse, Wellington Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Near this spot in 1699 was erected the first Quaker Meeting House in Leeds
Asda House, Aire Riverside path., Leeds, United Kingdom
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Leeds Trades Club. Erected in 1934-36 as the Jewish Institute, from 1974 until 1994 this handsomely appointed Art Deco building was the headquarters of Leeds Trades Council. Housing trade union offices meeting rooms and extensive social facilities, including a lounge and concert hall, it was the vibrant hub of the trade union movement in Leeds. Architect: G Alan Burnett
Leeds Media Centre. LS7 3HZ, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Fairbairn House Originally known as Woodsley House, this monumental villa was built in 1840 for Sir Peter Fairbairn, the textile engineering magnate, and Mayor of Leeds 1858-59. Queen Victoria stayed here in 1858 when she came to open the Town Hall.
Clarendon Road, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Leeds and Liverpool Canal Warehouse In 1777 this robust stone building was constructed as a terminal warehouse for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Started in 1770, the canal was finally completed in 1816 at a cost of £1,200,000 - nearly five times the original estimate.
Canal Wharf, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Celebrating the Birth of Rugby League RLF 120 years 1895-2015 On this site on 21st September 1895, Leeds played their first home game under the rules of Rugby League (then known as the Northern Union) Leeds v Brighouse
49 St Michael's Lane, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Selig Brodetsky. Lived here whilst Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds (1924-1948), becoming President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1949. A campaigner for a Jewish homeland, he was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews (1940-1949). 1888-1954.
5 Grosvenor Road, LS6 2DZ, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Percy 'Don' Robins. Founded St George's Crypt in 1930, creating a refuge for the city's homeless, providing food, a bed, clothing, practical help, and medical care. This ex-RAF serviceman and Anglican priest always committed himself to be "where the battle is hottest, and the work is hardest." 1900-1948
St George's Church, Great George Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Whitelocks Occupying a medieval Briggate burgage plot, it was first licensed as the Turk's Head in 1715. Rebuilt by the Whitelock family in the 1880s, it later extended into the row of Georgian working men's cottages. John Betjeman described it as 'the very heart of Leeds'
Briggate, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Esther Simpson OBE. This graduate of the University of Leeds was born in nearby Little London to immigrant parents. She was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Academic Assistance Council in 1933. Through her work in the decades that followed, the hundreds of refugee scholars she saved from persecution and death included sixteen future Nobel Laureates. 1903-1996
Lyddon Terrace, Leeds, United Kingdom
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Ralph Thoresby FRS (1658-1725) The historian of Leeds had his home and museum here.
15 Kirkgate, Leeds, United Kingdom
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David Oluwale A British citizen, he came to Leeds from Nigeria in 1949 in search of a better life. Hounded to his death near Leeds Bridge, two policemen were imprisoned for their crimes. 'The river tried to carry you away, but you remain with us in Leeds' Caryl Phillips c1930-1969
Leeds Bridge, Leeds, United Kingdom