SecretLeeds - History, culture and architecture in Leeds

The following are from John Mayhall’s ‘Annals of Yorkshire’:-September 29 1795. “On the 29th of September, this year, the Leeds corporation passed a vote of thanks to the volunteer corps of this borough, for their readiness in enrolling themselves for its defence, and also ordered an elegant sword to be purchased and presented by the mayor in the name of the corporation, “to Thomas Lloyd, Esq., colonel-commandant of the said volunteers.” The cost of the sword was £84.”I wonder if that sword is still around?September 29 1856. “The Leeds town council granted £2,600 for warming and ventilating the Town-hall, on the plan of Messrs. Haddan, and granted a sum not exceeding £5,000 for an organ for the same building.”September 29 1873. “At the village of Bramhope, very handsome school buildings which had ben (sic) erected upon half-an-acre of land, at the sole cost of Miss Dawson, the lady of the manor, were opened.”

Hi LeoRef "...September 29 1856. “The Leeds town council granted £2,600 for warming and ventilating..."I haven't seen him or anyone for many years, but I often used to see a middle-aged west indian chap who I took to be the boilerman there.From Great George St looking at the NE rear of Town Hall path level, couple of doors used to be open and he'd be having a brew. Only upper half visible and so guess they were working part below ground and/or these were originally coal drops? There are big chimneys at the rear I thinksee pic.The Town Hall has been hacked around over the years. There were the rounded front steps for bigger cells below. Then the Lions as well as new path-level entrances cut in between them?Also I never knew until a week or so ago that the front is Victoria Square.Thanks

Jogon wrote: Hi LeoRef "...September 29 1856. “The Leeds town council granted £2,600 for warming and ventilating..."I haven't seen him or anyone for many years, but I often used to see a middle-aged west indian chap who I took to be the boilerman there.From Great George St looking at the NE rear of Town Hall path level, couple of doors used to be open and he'd be having a brew. Only upper half visible and so guess they were working part below ground and/or these were originally coal drops? There are big chimneys at the rear I thinksee pic.The Town Hall has been hacked around over the years. There were the rounded front steps for bigger cells below. Then the Lions as well as new path-level entrances cut in between them?Also I never knew until a week or so ago that the front is Victoria Square.Thanks Weren't those doors on the rear of the Town Hall originally for the public toilets that were once there? Or were they further along?

I recall the public toilets that were where you say raveydavey. They will though have been closed very many years back now. I assume they were dismantled and so are not still there hidden but intact.

Old 1yd to 1mile Godfrey OS map (dated 1847-63) showing town hall with interior plan.

Si wrote: Old 1yd to 1mile Godfrey OS map (dated 1847-63) showing town hall with interior plan. I wonder what happened to the Statue of Wellington that is shown on the map to be in the front of the Town Hall? The area at Oxford Place Chapel on what is now The Headrow is marked as a grave yard, which will be some of the grassed area that is there now. I wonder if the graves were re-intered or are they still there?

He's on Woodhouse Moor and can be seen with his dashing red boots. Sometime he sports a traffic cone on his head:http://www.flickr.com/photos/atoach/4454267743/

Cardiarms wrote: He's on Woodhouse Moor and can be seen with his dashing red boots. Sometime he sports a traffic cone on his head:http://www.flickr.com/photos/atoach/4454267743/ Thanks for that Cardiarms. Cute Wellington Boots on him!