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 Boston Spa, High Street 1893 (ref. 32000) | This view reveals Boston's elegant and urbane character. Handsome and dignified Georgian houses and villas line the leafy street.Visitors to the town seem to have been made up from two groups: travellers using the Great North Road, who stopped over just long enough to sample the waters in the Pump Room before departing for more sophisticated destinations; and the citizens of Leeds who made the place popular enough for a daily stagecoach service to operate. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Headingley, 1894 (ref. 34773) | It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre. However, in 1894 Leeds corporation took advantage of the Tramways Act of 1870 and bought out the private tramway operators for over £100,000. Horse-drawn trams were replaced on some routes by steam power and electric cars were introduced from 1897. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Headingley, Otley Road c1960 (ref. H59026) | In this view, taken over sixty years later, the tram lines can still be seen. Headingley had once been a small village to the north of Leeds and its population in 1775 was estimated at 667 people. However, like Leeds the population had doubled by 1801 and continued to rise dramatically over the coming decades. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Headingley, the Church, Nave East 1891 (ref. 28263) | A view of the spire of St Michael's Church, with the remains of the famous Shire Oak, which has a girth of 29 ft. Taylor's Drug Store signboard is almost as big as the shop premises. Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Headingley, St Michael's Church and the Shire Oak 1897 (ref. 39097) | A view of the spire of St Michael's Church, with the remains of the famous Shire Oak, which has a girth of 29 ft. Taylor's Drug Store signboard is almost as big as the shop premises. Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Headingley, College 1894 (ref. 34772) | In the latter part of the 19th century, several colleges run by various religious denominations opened around Leeds.The Leeds Clergy school and the Roman Catholic Seminary were both opened in 1876. The Roman Catholic College dates from 1909, whilst the Wesleyan College at Headingley predates them all, being opened in 1868. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Town Street c1965 (ref. H118109) | This was the period when few supermarkets existed and those that did were built in town centres, as most people relied on public transport. New Road Side is here still a street of small, traditional shops. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, New Road Side c1965 (ref. H118094) | This was the period when few supermarkets existed and those that did were built in town centres, as most people relied on public transport. New Road Side is here still a street of small, traditional shops. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Mechanics Institute 1901 (ref. 47134) | In 1934 Leeds City council embarked on a programme to clear 30,000 slums. Delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War, the programme continued in the 1940s and included plans to build 53,000 new homes. However, building always lagged behind demand. Great swathes of countryside were cut through to make roads and roundabouts. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, the Ring Road Roundabout c1960 (ref. H118026) | In 1934 Leeds City council embarked on a programme to clear 30,000 slums. Delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War, the programme continued in the 1940s and included plans to build 53,000 new homes. However, building always lagged behind demand. Great swathes of countryside were cut through to make roads and roundabouts. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Springfield Hospital 1901 (ref. 47149) | This modest hospital was set up in Scotland Lane as the Leeds Work People's Convalescent Home. Members would pay their 1d a week and be entitled to rest and recuperation here. It later fell derelict and became in succession, a home for the Spastics and for Bosnian refugees.At present it is empty. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Woodside Church 1901 (ref. 47144) | Among the more colourful sects to establish themselves in Leeds were the Swedenborgians and the Inghamites. The Swedenborgians arrived in 1816 but struggled to survive, and were without a minister for almost 50 years.The Inghamites, once a force to be reckoned with in the Leeds area, declined throughout the 1870s and 80s, and finally disbanded in the 1890s. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Woodside Wesleyan Chapel 1901 (ref. 47145) | In Outwood Lane, this building is now the Woodside Methodist Church. Between 1840 and 1885 only one new Wesleyan chapel was opened in Leeds: at Roscoe Place in 1861. Wesleyan membership declined within Leeds during the 1840s and 50s but seems to have held up in the surrounding townships, such as Horsforth. New missions to these places led to a spate of chapel building in the late 19th century. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Wesleyan Church 1901 (ref. 47138) | This is not the original Wesleyan church in Horsforth - it replaced a building of 1786. It is an unusual structure, with a double-doored porch, and was built in 1868.The date stone states 1867, but completion was delayed by snow.The Wesleyans were the first to open a college in the Leeds area: at Headingley in 1868. In 1816 they had opened the first night school, where young men aged 15 and over could attend and learn to read and write. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Town Street c1960 (ref. H118032) | No town centre worth its salt was complete without its Co-op store. On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society. Every customer had a membership number against which all transactions were logged. One of the great occasions in the Co-op year was going to collect the family dividend or 'divi'.The divi was the membership share of what would have been a retailer's profit after all expenses. It varied from one society to another, and could be anything from 1s 6d to 3s in the pound. Beyond the Co-op is the Imperial Cinema. On the extreme left is the Elecricity Service Centre.Throughout the 1950s and 60s the standard of living continued to rise, and people invested in household aids such as washing machines, fridges and televisions. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Newlay Wood 1901 (ref. 47147) | Within the Leeds city boundary most of the open areas between the townships gradually dispersed under an urban sprawl of industrial and housing development. Horsforth survived as an independent borough until 1974, when it was swallowed up in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Horsforth Hall 1901 (ref. 47139) | Within the Leeds city boundary most of the open areas between the townships gradually dispersed under an urban sprawl of industrial and housing development. Horsforth survived as an independent borough until 1974, when it was swallowed up in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Hall Park 1901 (ref. 47140) | After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge. Even so the chapter house, cloisters and abbot's lodging are still impressive. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, Town Street 1901 (ref. 47133) | A horse takes a breather and feeds from its nosebag on the pavement.The cart on the left looks like a brewer's dray - in the back are barrels - and is probably delivering to the Black Bull on the right.There was probably strong competition between the Black Bull and the Old King's Arms across the street - the latter boasts a billiard room and is the meeting place for the Horsforth Harriers. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Horsforth, the Green c1965 (ref. H118106) | Instead of horses and carts, cars now clog the pavement outside the Black Bull. Note how the dark ashlar is picked out by severe white mortaring.The broad signboards still squats awkwardly over the first-floor bay windows. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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