This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… Sovereign Street is an old street named for Queen Victoria but it is the relatively new Sovereign Square with…
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Hidden Nature, Hidden History: Navigation Walk
This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… The Leeds waterfront was hugely important to the development of Leeds as a trading town, during the 17th century…
Hidden Nature, Hidden History: Leeds Minster
This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… With the loss of the original graveyard, now Penny Pocket Park, due to new roads and railway lines the…
Hidden Nature, Hidden History: Penny Pocket Park
This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… Penny Pocket Park began as part of the church yard and graveyard of Leeds Parish Church (later Leeds Minster),…
Hidden Nature, Hidden History: Playhouse Gardens
This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… Between the newly built Leeds City College and the Leeds Playhouse extension you will find a triangular shaped one…
Hidden Nature, Hidden History: St. John’s Church
This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… The high sandstone boundary wall and steep stone stepped gateway from Upper Briggate brings you above the level of…
Hidden Nature, Hidden History: Merrion Gardens of Rest
This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… Opened in 1933 the Rest Gardens were a gift to the city from Thomas Wade’s Charity, his 1530 will…
Hidden Nature, Hidden History: Mandela Gardens
This article forms part of our Heritage Open Day 2020 programme, specifically our Leeds City Centre Hidden Nature, Hidden History heritage trail. Click to see all the points on the trail and to read the accompanying articles… The garden in front of the Civic Hall was laid out in 1983 and dedicated to Nelson Mandela in…
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