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Description:
14th April 1932.
Entrance gates to Beckett's Park, on the right, new houses, St. Chads Drive are being built by ideal homes, Leighton Lane, Leeds. Beckett's Park had once been part of Kirkstall Abbey property. New Grange was built by Benjamin Wade in 1626, the Wade family lived there until 1834, when the Beckett family purchased it and renamed the estate Kirkstall Grange. In 1908 it was sold to Leeds Council who opened a college on the site. In 1933 it became Carnegie P.E. college for men, now part of Leeds Metropolitan University.
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