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MESSAGE FROM MARTIN The Trust Director writes a special piece about our response to the current Covid-19 pandemic. SEE PAGE 2 PLANNING NEWS Technology allows our Planning Committee to keep ‘meeting’ with Mike Piet on the line to report. SEE PAGE 4 WASTE NOT Claude Saint Arroman considers what we throw away after a visit to Martin HW Waste facility. SEE PAGE 6 MERCURY RETROGRADE Roderic Parker reports on a Trust visit to a printers with a collection of very special vintage postcards. SEE PAGE 8 KEITH WATERHOUSE HONOURED The Hunslet born author and journalist now has his own blue plaque. SEE PAGE 10

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A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR A message from Trust Director, Martin, regarding the Trust’s response to Covid-19.

It doesn’t need me to tell you that these are extraordinary times. Back in January we were looking forward to a full year here at the Trust. Events were being finalised, a full schedule of blue plaque unveilings scheduled, our spring season of corporate lunches with a new caterer booked and plans to implement our five year Vision were progressing. We now have the proofs for the much- anticipated second Blue Plaques book, and we were looking forward to launch this in late Spring. A few short weeks later, and much of what we had planned is either impossible, impractical or will have to be done in a very different way. Whilst the work we do is important, we cannot class the Trust as an essential service. This has meant that Although our committees cannot The current situation also gives us for the moment we cannot have a meet physically, discussions continue the opportunity for some virtual presence at our Wharf Street Offices via email – and in the case of the spring cleaning. We continue to tidy – the team is working from home, Planning Committee, this will up our new database system, it is an using technology to keep in touch continue to meet via telephone opportunity to develop and refresh (including two formal team meetings conference. Building work may policies for the Trust on everything per week via videoconference). have slowed in Leeds, but there are from data protection to health and However, we are still functioning as clearly many planning applications safety, and to plan for how the Trust an organisation, and as you will see still working their way through the responds to a post Covid-19 world? elsewhere in this edition of Outlook, system and the Trust will continue changed circumstances have opened So for now, we are working on to comment on them. Our Board up new opportunities for us. the basis that there will be no of Trustees will continue to hold physical events or activities until We hope to continue to offer events its meetings even if it cannot meet early summer; all events have been and to engage with our members, physically. cancelled until the end of May and it but this will often be via the internet Although for the moment it is not seems likely that the same will apply giving us the opportunity to produce possible to produce Outlook in hard for June. We will review this as the video clips, make more use of our copy, we will continue to produce an national situation evolves, and will social media presence and mount email version – and we have sent out let you know as soon as the situation online discussions and talks. If you postcards to members who have not changes. If you need to contact the are on twitter, now is a good time to provided email addresses to see if Trust urgently, you can do so either start to follow us @leedscivictrust - they wish to receive the newsletter via email ([email protected]. We are featuring an historic Leeds electronically. We are also very keen uk) or by phoning 07942 670333 and postcard every day in April from to ensure that our many volunteers leaving a message. our collection. And, as you will read right across the Trust are supported, elsewhere, we are launching a new In the meantime, keep healthy and and to offer a platform for discussion blog for the city. safe. during this hiatus.

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YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO HELP THE TRUST Keeping in touch with Trust members and the public is more important than ever, can you help us?

We’re sure many of you are users of Facebook, Instagram or twitter and use these to keep up to date with friends and groups both near and far? Can you offer a couple of hours a week during the current situation to help the Trust reach a wider audience, as well as help us keep in touch with members? We are looking for WE HAVE BEEN Facebook – A Private Group for ‘POSTING’ A Members ‘POSTCARD A DAY’ ON OUR TWITTER • A few individuals to help moderate FEED the page; - this would involve approving current members who want to join • Blue Plaque Correspondent – can Aboutleeds.blog – we’ll be launching the group you send a post a few days a week a blog in the coming weeks, this will - thinking of a few topics to start highlighting a different blue plaque? be an independent space for guest conversations e.g. self-isolation tips, The public enjoy seeing these and writers to write about Leeds, from are you finding the air cleaner? Etc they are nice ways to highlight our planning to heritage to what it could etc work and to champion a past Leeds learn from other towns and cities, - the aim of this page is a space hero/event or building. the Trust will moderate the blog but for members to continue ‘to meet’ • Good quality images and it will be a place for collaboration informally, sharing light-hearted anecdotes are particularly well and conversation. Have a look at the stories and anecdotes received on Instagram. blog to get a sense of the articles currently featured and if you have an - Martin will post a regular ‘planning • Again, staff would support you idea for an article please feel free to discussion’ video to this page in any technical aspects as well as submit one to us (up to 700 words). - Staff will support you with any helping with any ideas you’d like to Any suggestions are appreciated at technical queries as well as support take forward. this time and we will try and take with possible content • If you’re feeling unconfident about forward as many ideas as possible – your content going ‘live’ to the Instagram/twitter the Trust does not have a ‘marketing general public we will be happy to • Are you going on a daily walk/ team’ and we are novices when it review these before they are posted. cycle ride? Would you like to help comes to some online platforms, but us by taking a photo of interesting Other help together we’re sure we can come places you visit and adding this to If you deliver talks, walks, quizzes up with engaging and informative our twitter/Instagram? You may even or other creative activities, would content that speaks to other pass a blue plaque or two that would you like to do these on one of these members and to the wider public. make interesting features? (see via one of the Trust’s social media Please do get in touch with us during below for example) platforms? We also have a Youtube the next few week even if you’re • Do you have interesting facts and channel if you wanted to showcase not particularly confident about quirky anecdotes or images about any talents or deliver a talk on a using social media, and we can work Leeds? Would you like to compile a relevant topic? Get in touch and we’ll together to develop your ideas. few of these for the Trust and share be happy to support you and think of these via social media? ways to take this forward.

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PLANNING NEWS Planning applications submitted to the Council move soley online, but our Committee are still meeting to review them.

Last month it was Storm Dennis that dominated the news but it’s all different now. The Trust has had to close down almost all of its activities due to Covid-19 so this will be the last report on ‘live’ planning committee meetings for some time. However, we are looking to meet virtually (if not virtuously) through the means of teleconferencing. But back to early March and our only presentation to the full committee. This related to the proposal to construct a new terminal at Leeds Bradford Airport. We all appreciate that the existing building is unattractive, not fit for purpose and a poor entry point for the region. We thought the overall plans for the building were good but, while we had concerns about some of the layout details, we felt there were some fundamental issues to be addressed: • the long-term future of the airport: will the climate emergency, changing public attitudes to flying and high- speed rail services (direct or to hubs SANTANDER MERRION STREET such as Manchester or Heathrow) lead to a change in national policy which might make the airport the site of the Santander offices such a situation arises but here ‘redundant’? in Merrion Street. A lower podium are the schemes we felt were not • the existing terminal: have all would feature more solid masonry acceptable: options for refurbishment of the facades while the tower would • Silverdale Avenue, Guiseley: existing terminal been explored given be largely glass, aiming to reflect we objected strongly to this the carbon already embedded in the sky colours to minimise its visual ‘overdevelopment’ which does structure? impact. While appreciative of the not address the local housing • surface access strategy: we still feel design concept and quality of the requirements or the parameters set that the proposed Airport Parkway materials proposed, we did have in the Site Allocations Plan (SAP) some concerns about the height of Station could be an expensive • former Plumb Centre, Sheepscar: the proposed building when seen white elephant - a direct bus link although a revised scheme features alongside the listed St John’s Church to Horsforth would be cheaper to enhanced landscaping, the additional - however, there are numerous deliver and offer more train services. floor on the main building is an ugly examples of tall buildings alongside A planning application for the new addition Wren churches in London so this terminal is to be submitted shortly, might not necessarily preclude such • 32 Park Square West: we joined with the aim (if approved) of opening a scheme. other stakeholders in objection to in 2023. this ‘messy’ overdevelopment of a Turning to planning applications We did have a separate meeting site with a prominent aspect to The reviewed, this was a month when with representatives of developers Headrow objections outnumbered all other looking to construct a 33-floor responses - it is always sad that • Will’s Gill, Guiseley: although student accommodation block on allocated for housing in the SAP,

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the scheme proposed does not reflect any of the design and layout parameters set for the site - these include retention of the ‘green gap’ from the Guiseley Conservation Area and protecting established trees • A6120 Ring Road, Seacroft: this proposal for a petrol station and drive-through close to the Tesco roundabout would build on an important green space, destroying established hedges • above Snow & Rock, Lands Lane: while welcoming the principle of residential accommodation above the shop, we felt the rooftop extension would adversely affect the appearance of the distinctive corner turret. While accepting the principle of reuse of a former working men’s club in Beeston as community facilities supporting the neighbouring Sikh Temple, we felt more work should be done on the car park layout and landscaping. Other schemes we could support more enthusiastically included: • Hope House, Mabgate: internal potentially of greater interest: You will probably have picked up works to improve the accessibility of the budget announcements of a this new charity-run arts complex • as at the time of writing, work is proceeding on reconstruction West Yorkshire Mayor and it will be • Benton School, Rawdon: plans to of the First White Cloth Hall with interesting to see what this might replace the existing school by a new some design changes we support - bring to regional planning. The other building on the playing fields, before completion is planned for September point made was a plan to extend the using the site of the existing school 2020 but who knows what might British Library facilities at Thorp Arch for sports facilities happen now but, more excitingly for Leeds, create • Ledston Hall, near Castleford: a a British Library of the North in the • the WYCA Transport Committee very comprehensive restoration plan city centre - Temple Works has been covered a number of subjects at would see this converted to 10 large talked about as a possible location. a recent meeting, including the dwellings featuring some retained outline of a new Rail Strategy (to We are not sure where we will be in a rooms, lifts within individual ‘houses’ be published Summer 2020), new month’s time but for the foreseeable and an energy centre to supply heat simple bus fares for those under 19, future planning committee meetings & power. review of schemes to be put forward will have to be held as telephone In terms of schemes mentioned for Bus Grant (including connections conference calls - hopefully, I’ll be previously, we were pleased to see to Otley & Pudsey/Owlcotes links) able to report on these next time. plans for Brotherton House (subject and responses to plans for a Leeds of a presentation last month) have Mass Rapid Transit (likely to be MIKE PIET been amended to enhance the railed vehicles using mix of overhead PLANNING COMMITTEE separation between the existing cables & batteries - commitment and new blocks (as we suggested). made in the Budget?) CHAIR Other plans approved included • members of the committee visited new housing at Kirkstall Lights, the Majestic and reported this will 437 dwellings in Manston Lane, be a spectacular office space for new offices at Wellington Place Channel 4 and apartments at Tower Works (Holbeck). • highway works around the Corn Exchange and along Boar Lane were A whole range of other points due to have started in June 2020 for were reported during our meetings completion in 2021. and here is a selection of the ones

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CONSPICIOUS BINS - INVISIBLE WASTE MADE VISIBLE Claude Saint Arroman goes on the trail of what we throw away, and how it has and continues to change.

I recently visited Martin HW Waste’s recycling centre, with Zero Carbon Headingley and other activist groups in Leeds interested in recycling/ repairing many types of unwanted items before they are relegated as waste. This testament to reckless consumption is sorted with pick- up trucks, conveyor belts, plastic detectors, magnets and vibration devices, together with heroic staff sorting through the rest by hand. All this is enclosed out of sight in Beeston’s industrial sprawl but, behind doors, the omnipresent rattle of machines and pervasive smells cannot distract from the sheer scale of detritus from all corners of the city. Martin HW are mindful of what happens to this discarded stuff before and after it is entrusted to them; but they are rather powerless about where and how it comes to suffer the most. Ironically here, the of a site, sister company and/or them, even if they are now in better inevitably higher incidence of waste additional bin that would host the control of where it goes next once from packaging is not reflected collection and processing of these sorted. In its wider context of urban in collection times that can be as specially designed plastics. So, for waste, this monumental task is one infrequent as once a month. On now, while the production of plastics single (if very efficient) close-looped the other hand, while these areas that are less harmful to the planet is a system. potentially generate more food positive move, it is not incorporated waste that could be composted, they into the chain of waste management Recycling of this kind involves a have no available outdoor space for and, as such, remains without means defined range of materials, such in-vessel composting or dedicated of becoming something other than as plastic, glass, paper and metals. sites for this purpose. waste. Currently, Leeds City Council are unable to collect anything other than This lack of investment in the pick- Apparently, Leeds score above these in many of its wards. It barely up and collection network that leads average in the UK for its recycling processes other recyclable wastes, up to the recycling centre reveals capacity, and yet many of us will such as fabric, electrical equipment, paradoxes in the way recycling is be familiar with the ubiquitous lines food or garden waste, and this envisaged. This is typified by the fact of disorderly bins on many of its seems commensurate to spatial that biodegradable and compostable streets, particularly at thresholds availability. High density areas such alternative plastics are not included with Victorian/Edwardian pavements as back-to-backs, with less space in the list of materials that can be designed before consumer society and more residential occupation, handled by Martin HW, for want imposed obsolete packaging and

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inbuilt obsolescence on most of ENERGY RECOVERY FACILITY our everyday purchases. Not only was less waste produced in former times, much of it was also discreetly processed by domestic servants and street traders such as rag-and-bone men, who have all but disappeared since. The assumption today is that technology can do the job instead, but the bins tell another story. Government policy favours big business, such as anaerobic digestion plants (conversion of methanes released during decomposition into biogas to generate electricity). This requires substantial financial investment into new technologies. Leeds does have Veolia’s state of the art Energy Recovery Facility, but the focus here is, again, on energy (combustion of waste from black bins) rather than on the whole cycle of waste management. Veolia is an interesting case because its history dates back to the 1850s when it was set up on government decree as a water and waste utility company. Its recycling services were only developed in the 1980s, when waste started manifesting do, together with a whole number models in the West for recycling its inexorable growth because of in-between trades that would the city’s everyday, and this is a big landfills were bursting out at the have once redistributed ‘waste’ question that needs to be brought seams. It is a beacon of successful into different sectors (for a meagre into the sustainability debate. If business and enterprise, but it has financial reward). waste ceased to be considered the always been dependent on state Contemporary versions of such end of a line (to be swept under partnership, even if it is also a leader trades already include charity shops the carpet) and were instead to be in environmental research on treating for re-use, and the occasional pop considered a component asset of waste as a cyclical environmental up repair cafe, but it is worth noting socio-economic cycles, a whole new (and economic) asset rather than that neither of these provide means future could open up, not only for as the declining end of a linear of earning a living and rely mostly on the city but for its inhabitants. We consumption path. voluntary work. There seems to be an need more events on this particular Hence the management of waste is unconscious assumption that these theme which, rather than lacking not only a matter of producing less things still belong to poverty and glamour, could transcend Victorian waste and of putting the right things hardship, as they were during the ways of thinking and bridge the gap in the right bins (after cleaning Victorian era, and that waste is the between big technologies and the them), nor is it only a matter of product of not being able to afford utilitarian everyday. As with transport buying things with less packaging space. A strategy based on allocating strategies, there is a case here for big and/or asking manufacturers to services on the basis of geographic infrastructural projects and another reduce packaging. It is a whole chain space instead of human density for lifestyle changes, but there are of activities that should include - would certainly seem to confirm hosts of other things in between that beyond re-use of glass, plastic and this bias, but current government could contribute and deserve proper paper - the whole cycle of collection, policies aim at increasing housing reflection. cleaning, maintenance and repair density, which would here intensify of our everyday incomings and the existing shortcomings of waste CLAUDE SAINT-ARROMAN outgoings. Large infrastructural management. and technological interventions PLANNING COMMITTEE There is a growing number of fall outside any single individual’s businesses, most which outside the power of action, and yet waste still UK, that specialise in recycling their requires human labour: the modern own products. To my knowledge, equivalents of what servants used to there are no equivalent business

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PRINTERS AND

POSTCARDS Trust members took a nostalgic trip down Memory Lane at our recent visit to Mercury printing.

Printing has been one of the major industries of Leeds for many years, and Civic Trust members had a very enjoyable tour of one or our printing companies, Mercury Print & Packaging Ltd, on our visit on 12th March. Mercury’s business is general commercial printing and packaging, but there is a lot more to that than meets the eye. What do you want printed? Part of Mercury’s work is making card boxes for individual items as diverse as tubes of cosmetics and electronic components, printed by offset lithography then foil blocked, embossed, cut and creased by letterpress. In the origination department they can design a package from the vaguest or the most precise specification from a customer, using Photoshop and other graphics packages. The design is then turned into four master printing plates. Each plate is an which the customer can insert their and stapled, giving you a quality aluminium sheet with a coated product. Every street light in Leeds booklet, the whole process controlled area treated to match the design, (and in many other places) has a by two operators. with one plate for each of the photocell on the column, and each Because they can cover the whole standard four colours (cyan, photocell arrived on site in its own range of work from design to final magenta, yellow, and black, which protective Mercury box. When it is not assembly, some of their work comes in various combinations can possible to glue boxes by machine, from other companies who can produce every colour and shade they are hand finished using double handle the printing but not the rest. there is). The plain card goes sided adhesive before folding. We saw one such job, a leaflet for a through the offset litho machine Perhaps you want a stapled booklet; public event which had been printed in two passes, with two of the we saw another machine at work, elsewhere but which Mercury were colours printed on each pass. one that takes in printed sheets and guillotining and folding to give the The resulting full-colour spits out booklets, brochures, or trade desired product. (A ‘double gatefold’, rectangular card is then cut to catalogues up to 64 pages long. Each we were told.) a complex-looking shape on a original sheet might have 4 pages Or you may be an academic letterpress machine, eg cylinder printed (in full colour) on each side, institution wanting high-quality or platen. It is then taken to a with accurately spaced margins. Put certificates for your graduates. This folding and glueing machine up to eight of these in the correct is specialised work where Mercury which applies a lick of glue in the sequence on the machine and set does only the final stages. They right place, and produces the it going: the sheets are collated, take in already printed certificates final product, a flattened box into trimmed to form the individual pages, with the institution’s highly detailed

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and coloured heraldic emblem, and enhance the appearance of the emblem by adding a tiny amount of shiny foil to it, and embossing it. They can also add a security device to catch out any unscrupulous person trying to forge their own certificates. But that isn’t all; restaurant menus, orders of service for wedding ceremonies, and beer mats were also in evidence. Mercury supplies large numbers of pre-printed envelopes. They can produce all sorts of promotional business items. They have a heavy-duty digital printer which can print on to foil as well as paper or card. Their laminated products use a fully recyclable MIKE GRAYSON AT ONE OF MERCURY’S STATE OF THE ART PRINTERS film, an environmental plus. Much of the traditional printing machinery was made in Germany produce cards, mugs, fridge magnets, by Heidelberg. Some of these and cushion covers. When did you letterpress machines have been last visit the seaside and NOT see a modified by Mercury to extend rack of Bamforth’s cards? Mercury their useful life, eg to cut and also have the rights to some limited crease or foil block and emboss. edition Beatles prints. The resident engineer, Ian, keeps everything in good shape and The company was set up in 1992, he had displayed, for us to see, a and part of its growth since then fine array of original instruction has been through acquiring three manuals for all the printing other West Riding printers. They machines. pride themselves on having a large and loyal customer base including Mercury have been granted the businesses large and small and clients exclusive right to reprint The in the public sector. One sign on the Bamforth Postcard Collection wall read tellingly “The next inspector and distribute Bamforth’s other is the customer”. licensed products. We viewed a The Trust is conscious product display in the boardroom. We were shown round by Mike that many members Readers will be aware of these Grayson, who with his wife set the company up, and Graham Hebden, a including our corporate iconic ‘saucy postcards’ originally members run businesses produced by Bamforth and recently-retired member of Mercury’s Co. Ltd in Holmfirth, depicting staff and a Civic Trust member. Our that are experiencing (usually) overweight people in thanks are due to them, and to all the tough challenges glorious colour, many with double other members of staff there, for their at the moment. We entendre captions – a part of the hospitality and patience in answering sincerely hope that, once our many questions. British seaside tradition. Over over, normal trading 70,000 images are thought to conditions will resume have been designed over 90 or RODERIC PARKER swiftly for you all. so years, but only about 27,000 PLANNING COMMITTEE are now available. Mercury can

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A BLUE PLAQUE FOR KEITH WATERHOUSE Trust Chair, Jane Taylor reports on our most recent plaque unveiling, for journalist and author Keith Waterhouse. The sky above Hunslet library on Friday 6 March was the exact same colour as the plaque, unveiled by Leeds-born lecturer and author Anthony Clavane and Laura Collins, Editor of the Yorkshire Evening Post, in honour of another Leeds-born author and journalist, Keith Spencer Waterhouse CBE. The unveiling was organised to coincide with and to form part of the Leeds Literature Festival. Following the unveiling Anthony gave a talk inside the library about Keith Waterhouse’s life and contribution not only to journalism but to literature, film and comedy. Anthony had, by this time, recovered from his fear of heights caused by having to climb up two steps on the ladder to reach the pull cord whilst Laura stood safely on terra firma! HILARY BENN MP, ANTHONY CLAVANE, MARTIN HAMILTON, JANE TAYLOR AND LAURA The plaque was kindly sponsored by COLLINS AT THE KEITH WATERHOUSE UNVEILING Leeds City Council Library Services and by the three local Councillors, Elizabeth Nash, Paul Wray and Mohammed Iqbal. various different pseudonyms to delivery rounds. His first full time job subvert the weekly borrowing limits. was as a clerk at a local undertaker. Keith Waterhouse was born in Low This firm apparently operated as Road Hunslet on 6 February 1929. Waterhouse was the youngest of five children. His father was a street an estate agent, car repair and taxi Unfortunately, the house he grew company and provided both the up in was demolished in the 1930s trader in fruit and vegetables and it seems that one of his earliest inspiration for his best-known novel as was the house he moved to in published in 1959, Billy Liar, and an Middleton. Finding an appropriate memories was being taken to the wholesale market by his father in introduction to his first wife, Joan, site for this plaque had proved a who was the daughter of the owner. challenge given that not only was his cart. Alas, his father was an there no suitable house but his ‘enthusiastic drinker’ who died After National Service in the RAF place of work (YEP building) and his penniless leaving his mother to bring Waterhouse was offered a job, in college (opposite the Merrion Centre) up the family in very straitened 1950, as a junior reporter on the were no longer standing or about to circumstances. YEP having achieved an impressive be demolished. This may have been the catalyst typing speed via a scholarship to Leeds College of Commerce. He had The library in Hunslet was an obvious for Waterhouse to be rather entrepreneurial finding ingenious Fleet Street in his sights and needed choice as Waterhouse loved Hunslet, to make his name. He did this by exploring its streets as a boy on his ways to fund his urban explorations around Leeds. He was, amongst walking from Leeds to London down unauthorised schoolboy rambles. the Great North Road and reporting He was a voracious reader from a others, a chorister, a golf-caddy and a shopping porter. He also had an his experiences and observations young age and joined several libraries en route. His pieces proved popular obtaining multiple tickets under extensive portfolio of newspaper

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and he was appointed the YEP’s ‘walking reporter’ like Man O’the DIGITAL EVENTS HAPPENING Dales, Billy Liar. From that post he was hired by the Daily Mirror in 1952, LOCALLY initially working as an international correspondent in the US and Soviet Union. During this time, he became speech writer for several Labour politicians including Harold Wilson. A disagreement with Robert Maxwell necessitated a move and he joined the Daily Mail, staying there until his retirement at the age of 80, only a few months before he died. Not content with a career in journalism, Waterhouse had literary ambitions. Spare time was devoted to writing fiction, plays and together with his life-long friend, Willis Hall, writing for television. They wrote for The Frost Report and That Was The Week That Was in the 1960s. He wrote around There are a number of online and • 19th-century Newspapers 60 books including two memoirs, digital events happening locally City Lights and Streets Ahead which • Discovering Leeds website that may be of interest to you? recounted his memories of growing up • National Library of Scotland in Leeds and as a young journalist in Leeds Civic Trust has launched a Maps special blog aboutleeds.blog – London. • Yorkshire Birth, Marriage and this will be an independent blog, His most successful play, Jeffrey Deaths administered by the Trust, with a Bernard is Unwell was a huge hit when focus on topical guest writers. • Leeds Libraries page on leeds. it debuted in 1989 starring another son gov.uk – has pdfs of parish For members we are also of Hunslet, Peter O’ Toole in the title registers, newspapers, trade launching a private Facebook role. directories, etc that we hold, plus page, this will be a discussion Waterhouse always loved the English link to Absent War Voters page space, as well as an informal way language and had strong views on the to keep in touch. Simply log onto • Leodis Collections https:// proper use of grammar. He claimed to Facebook and search ‘Leeds Civic leodiscollections.net/ have started the Association for the Trust Members Page’ and apply to And lastly, there is a range of Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe join the discussion. events available to join and aimed particularly at greengrocers! Our friends from the Local and ‘participate’ on Leeds Inspired. In summary, Waterhouse was a much History Department of the Leeds admired journalist, an accomplished Library have been in touch with author and writer and we are rightly a round-up of websites and proud to honour this son of Hunslet. research points that they have available too as well as some JANE TAYLOR others which may be of interest? CHAIR Here are some of the heritage resources that you can access from home for free through Leeds Libraries: • Secret Library Leeds Blog • Leeds Libraries Flickr • Leodis • Ancestry, free access from home you just need a library card (which you can also set up online now) - https://leeds.ent.sirsidynix.net.uk/ client/en_GB/default

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