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St. Mary's Hospital, exterior view

1960s. View shows part of St. Mary's Hospital taken in the 1960s. This building, which faces onto Green Hill Road, was the main administrative and accommodation block. On the grou...

Tong Road, tram no.581

10th May 1954. View of Tong Road showing tram no.581, on route 18 to Crossgates, stopping to pick up passengers. This is an ex-London 'Feltham' tram which came to Leeds in 1950. I...

Tong Road, tram no.551

23rd February 1952. View of Tong Road showing tram no.551, on route 16 to the New Inn. An ex-London 'Feltham' tram, it has an advert for Mackeson's Stout on its side. In the backg...

Tong Road, tram no.539

23rd February 1952. View showing tram 539 outside John Ratcliff & Sons Ltd., printers engineers, at no.280 Tong Road. This tram, here bound for Crossgates on route 18, is one of t...

Tong Road, junction with Whingate, tram no.531

16th July 1956. View of Tong Road from the junction with Whingate. Tram no.531 is just turning onto Whingate, nearing its terminus there on route no.15. This is one of the ex-Lond...

Tong Road, tram no.510

21st July 1956. View of Tong Road showing tram no.510, on route 15 to Whingate. This is one of the 'Felthams' which arrived in Leeds from London in 1950. On the left of the pictur...

Christ Church, Armley, interior, Postcard

Undated. Interior of the Church built on land donated by the Gott family.

Lantern Lane, Pasture Hills.

Undated. View of Lantern Lane, Pasture Hills, an ancient right of way which runs between Brown's Field, of Pasture's Farm, to Redcote. It was the route taken by millworkers travel...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. This leafy path is well known to locals as Lantern Lane as it is an ancient route used from the early 19th Century by generations of millworkers. They would leav...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. View shows part of Lantern Lane near Armley Golf Course. It was part of an old right of way which ran from Brown's Field of Pasture's Farm to Redcote. From the e...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. Image shows Lantern Lane as it crosses Armley Golf Course. This ancient right of way was used for many years by mill workers who walked from Armley to Burley eac...

Lantern Lane.

22nd August 2009. Image shows part of Lantern Lane, an ancient right of way used by mill workers from the early 19th Century to walk to and from their homes in Armley and the mill...

Armley Road, tram

Undated. View showing tram no.232, a brush-bodied Horsfield built in 1931, travelling along Armley Road. This tram was scrapped on 8th August 1956.

Heights Drive, number 209, little girl seated on outhouse steps

c1959. Image shows a little girl seated on the outhouse steps of number 209 Heights Drive, part of a newly built estate. In the background there is the large chimney belonging to ...

View from Westerly Croft, looking north-west

13th April 1964. Right-hand one of a series of 3 photographs taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road, that fit together to ...

View from Westerly Croft, looking west

13th April 1964. Central one of a series of 3 photographs taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road, that fit together to for...

View from Westerly Croft, looking south-west

13th April 1964. Left-hand one of a series of 3 photographs taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road, that fit together to f...

View from Westerly Croft, looking east

13th April 1964. Photograph taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats that had recently been built by the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road. This view looks east acrs...

View form Westerly Croft, looking south

13th April 1964. Photograph taken from Westerly Croft, a block of flats that had recently been built at the junction of Armley Road and Stanningley Road. The view looks south acro...

Hill Top, Armley Common Rights Trust bench

24th January 1965. View of a cast-iron bench support at Hill Top on land opposite the Traveller's Rest public house, provided by the Armley Common Rights Trustees. Still in existe...

The Gang, street name sign

6th February 1966. View of a street name sign for The Gang, an alley leading off Town Street, taken shortly before it was demolished. 'Gang' is possibly an old English word for wa...

Armley Moor, Babies Welcome

5th June 1965. View of the Armley Babies Welcome Clinic at the edge of Armley Moor. This was a branch of the Leeds Babies Welcome Association, a charity providing centres for moth...

Lyric Picture House, Tong Road

Undated. View of the brick built Lyric Picture house in Tong Road. The 900 seater cinema was designed by architects, Jones & Stocks of Leeds and opened on Saturday 9th December 19...

Mistress Lane, block of maisonettes numbered 33-55

Undated. View of Mistress Lane showing a block of maisonettes numbered 33-55, located near the junction with Ley Lane. They were built around the early 1960s and are now demolishe...

Armley Library, Stocks Hill

1996. View looking from Town Street towards Armley Branch Library at the junction with Wesley Road, right, Stocks Hill up ahead, and Branch Road and Crab Lane on the left. The Yor...

Armley Library, Stocks Hill

1996. View of Armley Branch Library at the junction of Wesley Road, leading off to the right, and Stocks Hill, up ahead on the left. Designed by Percy Robinson and opened in 1902,...

Heights Drive, nos. 34 - 40.

1995. View of Heights Drive showing nos.34 to 40. On the right is the SVP Charity Shop at no. 34, with clothes and shoes displayed outside. Next to this, no. 36 is Armley Heights ...

Armley Heights Library, Heights Drive

1995. View showing Armley Heights Branch Library at no. 36 Heights Drive in the centre of the picture. Notice and posters cover the windows. Just visible on the left is Dewhirst N...

Armley Heights Library, interior view

1995. Interior view of Armley Heights Branch Library situated on Heights Drive.

Armley Heights Library, interior view

1995. Interior view of Armley Heights Branch Library at no. 36 Heights Drive.

Town Street, Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd.

Undated. View of Armley Town Street showing the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd's premises at nos. 36-42. This is split up into different departments including English M...

Town Street, nos. 58-60

Undated. View of Armley Town Street showing, on the left, the Royal Hotel at no. 60 and in the centre Gallons Ltd., grocers, at no. 58. Next to this is a series of advertising hoa...

Charabanc in front of the Barleycorn Inn, Town Street

c.late 1920s, early 1930s. Image shows a Charabanc parked in front of the Barleycorn Inn in Town Street. It is filled with passengers ready to set off on an outing - destination ...

Armley Road, junction with Arkwright Street

c1900-1904. View of Armley Road showing the junction with Arkwright Street on the left. The view looks south-east towards the city centre.

Heights Drive, numbers 207 and 209

c1959. Black and white image showing a newly built pair of semi-detached houses, numbers 207 and 209 Heights Drive. A small child stands in the garden of number 209. The gardens a...

Winchester Road viewed from Hall Lane.

December 1980. View of Winchester Road view from Hall Lane. Armley Gaol can be seen to the right, before the extensions were carried out. The remains of Elsworth Street can be see...

Canal Street / Armley Road

December 1980. View of Canal Street from the footbridge near Armley Gaol, marked on more recent maps as Armley Lower Road. Armley Road turns off over the railway bridge, left. Cro...

Armley Gaol, bricked up tunnel in the prison boundary wall.

December 2002. Image of Armley Gaol clearly showing the bricked - up tunnel in the prison boundary wall. This is where, on 10th September 1864, Joseph Myers and James Sargisson wo...

West Leeds High School and Playing Fields

Undated. Image shows a rear view of West Leeds High School and playing fields and is thought to date from before 1914. The school looks newly built and it had opened in Heights La...

Conference Place, number 1, at the junction with Whingate Road

1969 Image shows number 1 Conference Place, a shop at the junction with Whingate Road. A large advertising board for the Yorkshire Evening Post reads 'come home to a much better e...

Gotts Park golf course from Armley Ridge Road

1950. View of Gotts Park Golf course taken from Armley Ridge Road. In the centre is Kirkstall Bridge, Bridge Road. Kirkstall Brewery is just visible. The River Aire is on the righ...

Church Road, no.16

1981 View of doctors' surgery at no.16 Church Road. The doctors at the time were Dr. M. Benard, Dr. H. Lindsay and Dr. T.D. Whitefield.

Armley Mills, painting

Undated Image shows a painting of Armley Mills from a pencil sketch made on site in 1966. At this time the mills were fully operational. Image courtesy of the artist, Robert Stead...

Armley Road, former Armley Board School

Undated. View of the former Armley Board School on Armley Road, which has now been converted for office use. Dating from 1878, the school was also known as Armley Council School a...

Armley Road, former Armley Board School

Undated. View of the former Armley Board School on Armley Road, now converted into offices. Opened in 1878, the school became known as Armley Council School after the abolition of...

Kirkstall Viaduct and Canal Road/Viaduct Road Bridge.

Undated. View of Kirkstall Viaduct spanning the River Aire which opened on 23rd March 1849 to carry the new Leeds and Thirsk railway which was to open on 9th July of that year. Th...

St. Bartholomew's Church Wesley Road

C1970s. View of St. Bartholomew's Church in Wesley Road, dating from 1872. It was built in Sandstone at a cost of £20,000 but further funds were raised for the tower which was add...

Armley Mills Bridge

Undated. View of Armley Mills Bridge reflected in the water of the Leeds Liverpool Canal. It is one of the original canal bridges and crosses between Armley Mills and a river ford...

Kirkstall Viaduct and Canal Road Bridge.

Undated. View of Kirkstall Viaduct as it crosses the River Aire, foreground. It was opened in 1849 to carry the new Leeds and Thirsk railway line. Behind it is the Canal Road/Viad...

Kirkstall Viaduct and Canal Road Bridge taken from Iron Bridge.

Undated. View of Kirkstall Viaduct crossing the River Aire and dating from 1849, and behind it the Canal Road/Viaduct Road bridge, 1882, taken from the iron footbridge. The dome o...