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| Adel Church (Adel) |
 | 1967. The photograph shows the graveyard with an ornate stone cross in the foreground. A large white memorial is behind it with a statue visible in the centre of it. Several other gravestones are also visible. The church was built between 1150 and 1160. The south porch was added 1160-1170 and remains one of the finest examples of Norman sculpture in England. The church is a Grade 1 listed building.
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| Aerial View, Headingley Lane, Otley Road, St Michael's Church (Headingley) (2 comments) |
| 1926.
Aerial view of Headingley. Headingley Lane runs from the top edge. In the centre of the view is St Michael's Church. Outside the church is the War Memorial situated at the junction of Headingley Lane, St Michael's Road, which runs towards the right edge, and Otley Road. Along the top edge are Manor and Richmond streets with the Granby streets seen in the bottom right corner.
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| Armistice Day, Leeds General Post Office Building, City Square (City Centre) (1 comment) |
| 11th November 1926
View of the procession through City Square to lay the wreath in front of the War Memorial. On the far left is Miss Jessie Beatrice Kitson a descendant of James Kitson Senior (1807-1885) founder of the Airedale Foundry in Hunslet and famed for building the first locomotive in 1837 with Charles Todd. His eldest son, James, was raised to the peerage of Lord Airedale in 1907. Miss Kitson was the niece of Frederick James Kitson who became Lord Mayor in 1908. He was the son of Lord Airedale's brother, Frederick William Kitson. Jessie Beatrice Kitson went on to become the first woman elected Lord Mayor following the death of Arthur Clark in November 1942. Also seen, in wig and gown is the Town Clerk and Solicitor to the Corporation, Thomas Thornton, the Deputy Lord Mayor, Alderman Leslie Owen, the Lady Mayoress, Ella Lupton and leading the procession, the Sergeant-at-Mace Edward T. Jones.
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| Armistice Day, Leeds General Post Office Building, City Square (City Centre) |
| 11th November 1926
This photograph was taken in front of the General Post Office in City Square on Armistice Day, 1926. The War Memorial was first sited here and was unveiled by the Earl of Harewood on October 10th 1922. In 1936 it was moved to the newly designed Garden of Rest in the Headrow to make way for a new traffic circulation in City Square. Standing in front of the War Memorial from the left is the Sergeant-at-Mace, Edward T. Jones, the Town Clerk, and Solicitor to the Corporation, Thomas Thornton, the Deputy Lord Mayor, Alderman Leslie Owen, the Lady Mayoress, Ella Lupton in chains of office, Mrs Owen, Deputy Lady Mayoress and Alderman Sir Charles Wilson. Second from the right is Alderman Alfred Edward Masser. The Lord Mayor, Hugh Lupton, was unable to be present due to illness.
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| Armley Park off Stanningley Road, War Memorial (Armley) |
| Undated
View of Armley Park, off Stanningley Road, showing the War Memorial. It was photographed in the late 1940s.
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