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Mark’s History: Christ Church and its beautiful war memorial windows
The foundation stone for Christ Church on Armley Ridge Road in Armley was laid on 1st October 1869 by...
8 February 2019
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Mark’s History: Meet Thomas, the New Wortley cat with wings
In the early 1900s Bramley Hill Top Workhouse probably had many cats to keep the rats and mice under...
1 February 2019
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Mark’s History: Mapping and the old trig pillars of West Leeds
I don’t have much use for maps, I tend to just set off walking and hope for the best...
24 January 2019
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Mark’s History: Pudsey killer Neil Adamson and Sunny Bank Mills attacks
When the judge sentenced Neil Adamson to a minimum of 30 years imprisonment in 1970 he made it clear...
19 January 2019
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Mark’s History: Yorkshire Ripper and the tragedy of Farsley’s Marguerite Walls
For once Marguerite Walls did not mind working late at the Department of Education and Science office in Pudsey,...
11 January 2019
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Mark’s History: Kirkstall Road birthplace of film and TV composer Angela Morley
The other year I was out and about looking to see what I could find when I thought to...
31 December 2018
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Mark’s History: When Burley folk rallied in 1914 rent strike
When in January 1914 James Relton, Fred Patchett and George Hargreaves, who lived on Harold Grove in Burley and...
19 December 2018
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Mark’s History: Rodley’s mill past dates to 1220
In around the year 1220 the first mill was built in Rodley, writes Mark Stevenson. By 1236 the mill...
15 December 2018
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Mark’s history: The New Wortley Gas Works riots
Leeds Corporation, as it was known in 1869, had bought the three gas companies operating in Leeds at the...
22 November 2018
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Mark’s History: The day Harry Houdini came to Armley
In 1902 Harry Houdini visited Armley to perform a stunt in Armley Prison, writes Mark Stevenson. While doing a...
15 November 2018