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Mark’s History: Burley’s Hindu Temple in pictures
Indiana Jones may go exploring in jungles and deserts but I like to stick to the streets of West...
22 March 2020
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Mark’s History: John Briggs and a Leeds Guardian Home in Burley
Spring Grove House on Alexandra Road in Burley is another one of those large old houses that looks out...
15 March 2020
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Mark’s History: From Wyther Park Road to being Admiral of the Fleet
Harold Fieldhouse had one job as Secretary of the National Assistance Board, writes Mark Stevenson. That was to make...
8 March 2020
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Mark’s History: Hopewell House’s connections to Call Lane
In 1911 Agnes Olive Roberts was working as a servant at 73 Call Lane, writes Mark Stevenson. Her boss...
1 March 2020
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Mark’s History: Do you recognise the former cinemas of West Leeds and Pudsey?
Here are some photos of the old cinemas from around West Leeds they were taken by a guy called...
23 February 2020
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Mark’s History: A former wood once called Hell Hole – and Farnley’s New Blackpool Methodist Church
As I was coming down Whitehall Road in Farnley I saw what looked like to be a scarecrow through...
17 February 2020
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Mark’s History: Low Moor Side, where the past stares you in the face
As I said in the first part of this article yesterday, I felt like a kid in a sweet...
11 February 2020
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Mark’s History: Low Moor Side and the haunted chippy
When I first visited this part of New Farnley on Low Moor Side I was like a kid in...
10 February 2020
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Mark’s History: The charms of Burley Mills
When I first stumbled across this piece of land in Kirkstall in 2014 it was a bit of a...
2 February 2020
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Mark’s History: James Bedford’s legacy and the Yorkshire Chemicals site
I wonder if at the age of 15 James Bedford had any idea the company he was dreaming of...
26 January 2020