Famous Daughters of Leeds

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sat 24 May, 2014 12:24 pm

I believe that another famous musician of long ago came from Leeds - Ivy Benson and her Girls' Band, who played locally and broadcast nationally.

davedeath · Post by **davedeath** » Sun 25 May, 2014 1:03 am

Mel (Scary Spice) BHelen Fielding (of Bridget Jones fame)Sue Ryder (of charity fame). Quite some woman according to her wiki entry:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Ryder

Carona · Post by **Carona** » Mon 26 May, 2014 1:04 am

Diana Rigg? She went to school in Pudsey.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 26 May, 2014 12:32 pm

Carona wrote: Diana Rigg? She went to school in Pudsey. Hi Carona.I had thought that Diana was born in Leeds but have found that she was born in Doncaster and soon moved to India with her parents Louis and Beryl. In a biography of her that I've just read it states "Around the time of India’s independence from Britain (1947), Louis and Beryl returned to Yorkshire and settled in Leeds...She was sent to the Moravian Fulneck Girls School in Pudsey".I once read somewhere, or was told, that for a very short time in the mid 1950s or so that Diana worked in the offices of the Blood Transfusion Centre in the grounds of Seacroft Hospital, though I don't know if that is true.

BarFly · Post by **BarFly** » Mon 26 May, 2014 5:32 pm

I think the singer/songwriter Neneh Cherry went to school in Pudsey for a year or two also but references to it seem to have disappeared form her Wikipedia entry.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 03 Mar, 2015 11:17 pm

BBC have a tribute programme to Beryl Burton this Sunday -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/31641006

Richard A Thackeray · Post by **Richard A Thackeray** » Sat 07 Mar, 2015 1:20 pm

Johnny39 wrote:Beryl Burton, cyclist.

She's got to be the most under-rated of them, but still with the most titles

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