This week on the Secret Library Leeds, Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder tells how moving to Yorkshire five years ago inspired him to compile a day-by-day historical anthology. One sunny day in spring 2021, we chugged cheerfully east along the M62 in a removal van on a roundabout route from Hackney to Headingley. The third lockdown was…
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Family History Fact Checking – Part 1
This week we welcome back Becky from the Local and Family History Library who tells us about a recent enquiry and how she went about solving it. The enquiry came from a customer keen to track down a photo of a home that their family used to inhabit: I am trying to find a photograph…
In search of Morley Museum – Part 3
The third part of Joey Talbot’s trilogy of articles exploring the collections of the Morley Museum. Part 1 and Part 2 were published over the last two weeks and we strongly recommend reading them before diving into this final section…. So now we come to the third part of the story of the Morley Museum….
In search of Morley Museum – Part 2
Part two of Joey Talbot’s trilogy of articles on the mysteries and wonders of Morley Museum. Part one was published last week – we recommend reading before starting part two… In a spacious room on the first floor of the Morley Library building there was once a museum. In the previous article, I introduced this…
In search of Morley Museum – Part 1
In this set of articles by Joey Talbot, Secret Library Leeds becomes Secret Library Morley, as we go in search of the many treasures that could once be found within the walls of the Morley Museum. This is part one of a three part series – keep an eye out for parts two and three…
James Potter Schofield (1849-1892)
Earlier this year a new Red Plaque was unveiled in honour of James Potter Schofield, former fireman in the Liverpool & London & Globe Brigade. Schofield was killed on duty tackling the 1892 Leeds New Station fire. The plaque has been installed at the Dark Arches entrance to the station, off Neville Street, on behalf…
For Evermore – Stories of the Fallen
As Remembrance Day approaches, we hear about a Commonwealth War Graves Commission project to remember those who lost their life in the First and Second World Wars. Since 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has maintained a record of all those who died serving in British Imperial forces in the two World Wars. Those…
Eliza Craven Green (1803-1866) – a Leeds Poet
This week we are joined by two guest authors, Lucy M. Evans and Spencer Needs, who write about a little known poet from Leeds – Eliza Craven Green. Part 1: The Manchester Connection by Lucy M Evans On 24 March 1842 over forty people assembled at the ancient Sun Inn, Long Millgate, Manchester for a…
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