Where in leeds?

davedeath · Post by **davedeath** » Mon 02 Dec, 2013 12:05 am

Cardiarms wrote: The Parksider wrote: The cryptics have it...........The names of buildings around the Acre at Leeds met uni's Becketts Park.The "Leighton" house brass plaque has gone, not those pesky metal thieves I hope. Once it was Carnegie college, then the met and now leeds-beckett's university. Was it anything else befor carnegie? Leeds Poly.And it was Metropolitan before Carnegie.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 02 Dec, 2013 8:30 am

I remember it as Carnegie in the 70s and 80s ?????

yorkiesknob · Post by **yorkiesknob** » Mon 02 Dec, 2013 9:38 am

Cardiarms wrote: I remember it as Carnegie in the 70s and 80s ????? Me too, in my days PE teachers college among other departments of teacher training I guess.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Mon 02 Dec, 2013 12:54 pm

Cardiarms wrote: I remember it as Carnegie in the 70s and 80s ????? 1845 college of commerce1933 carnegie college PT.All the bits before inbetween and after are on the Becketts Park History site.......

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 03 Dec, 2013 9:48 am

yorkiesknob wrote: C'mon Blakey, stones throw. Red face here - I didn't know, and I can nearly see it from here, and have walked round the grounds from time to time.I believe the college was a military hospital during the War.I was about to hazard a guess at some statues in City Square outside the former GPO so that would have been way out !!