Hyde Park History

John Freeborn, the distinguished Battle of Britain ace Spitfire pilot from Headingley, died on August 28th. He was a friend of my family...

I've just discovered Phill Davison's superb photosets of urban exploration. One has vintage photos of Leeds' tram system , an...

Headingley's Battle of Britain pilot John Freeborn married his wife Rita during the war. They were together until her death in 1980. B...

Here's the report that went with the previously posted pictures . Leeds Mercury, Monday July 27, 1908. SUFFRAGETTES IN LEEDS Great ...

As I've mentioned before, on 26 July 1908 100,000 people attended a suffragette demonstration on Woodhouse Moor, organised by the Women...

The house Henry Rollins lived and worked in is a back-to-back terrace of the sort that was very common in Leeds but largely demolished in t...

WW1 and WW2 hold particular attention historically. Not only were ordinary people conscripted en masse but literacy was newly widespread, so...