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Leeds Leylands’ Life

  • Post published:January 20, 2022
  • Post category:Jewish History/Urban History (Leeds)
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The Leylands has long since vanished as a distinct area of north Leeds, but it was once a densely-populated and vibrant district, lent extra colour by an influx of Jewish…

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A North Street Curio

  • Post published:March 17, 2017
  • Post category:Urban History (Leeds)
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The North Street area of Leeds is a bit of an inner city nowhere-land these days. Few people live there, and a recent visit one afternoon finds it largely bereft…

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Banner image: detail from The Dancing Platform at Cremorne Gardens (Phoebus Levin, 1864), Museum of London.
This setting is featured in the chapter of Bring Him in Mad entitled ‘A Christmas Pantomime’.