Leeds Civic Trust

A very informative and interesting tour by the @leedscivictrust.bsky.social this evening. To celebrate 60 years, we explored six arcades in Leeds City Centre. I love County Arcade, it is a personal favourite and the architecture is simply beautiful.

#Leeds #Yorkshire #shopping

🤔 Ever wondered what 6000 Heritage Open Days booklets look like? Wonder no more! We'll be sending our Heritage Open Days booklets out to our members in the post very soon. Not a Leeds Civic Trust member? Get a booklet at Kirkstall Festival on 12 July

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📹A few months ago, we hired an intern to carry out an oral histories project.

🎤Our intern Sakshi is interviewing Leeds Civic Trust members, volunteers and stakeholders to create a video documentary about our work over the last 60 years...

📚Historian Steven Burt and Urban Geographer Rachael Unsworth are publishing a book on the history of Chapel Allerton. They are campaigning for 400 people to reserve a copy of the book.

🔗Reserve a copy and watch two promotional online lectures here: zurl.co/5EX8n

🚍Inside the 1960s Daimler bus we toured in on Saturday were several signs that were on display at the time the bus was decommissioned.

By stunning coincidence, one sign mentioned Leeds Civic Trust! We were the publishers and vendors of 'A Guide to Walks on Footpaths in Leeds'.

We ventured across Leeds on a 1960s Daimler bus, from Leeds City Centre, to Kirkstall Abbey, to Middleton Railway, getting expert commentary from our trustee & historian Clifford Stead on developments in Leeds over the last 60 years & plans for the future.

A great trip on the @leedscivictrust.bsky.social Heritage Bus Tour. Leeds City - Kirkstall Abbey - Leeds City - Middleton Railway, to munch our way through a 1960s style packed lunch 🥪 🍏 Brilliantly guided, history shared & news of new developments + a talk from the team at Middleton Railway. #leeds

Our exhibition is up until 28 June in Kirkgate Market on Butchers Row (near George Street entrances)

Audrey captured in the stairwell at Leeds General Infirmary’s medical school. Two council employees are assessing her removal before starting and one of them is holding a ladder.

Audrey being carefully removed from the stairwell by two council employees.

Leeds General Infirmary’s beloved Audrey has got a new home 🌱

Having been housed at the location since the 1970s, Audrey the #monstera is now located in Tropical World’s Rainforest Canopy area ready to start her new life.

Learn more 👉 news.leeds.gov.uk/news/plantas...

🐻Could you create a funded art installation at the Bear Pit?

📣Applications are open for Compass Festival 2026. Compass Arts are interested in projects which invite members of the public to experience this new cultural site.

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Making things happen - currently on display in Leeds market, courtesy of @leedscivictrust.bsky.social

Really annoyed I couldn't get down to the market today to meet Tony after the help he's given with the research. Bloomin' sniffly cold 😫.
Definitely worth a visit though - development of last year's project with more context re opposition and ideas that didn't happen.

Giant shopping mall scheme to eat city

Leeds Other Paper story from LOP 548 headlined: Property giants fight for green valley

Just one of many LOP pieces now on display in the market, this one from 1988 ⬇️

Poster for Leeds Civic Trust exhibition: Making Things Happen - Leeds Development Corporation 1988-1995 (at Kirkgate Market, Butchers Row, 4-28 June 2025)

The exhibition on Butchers Row in the market

Headline from Leeds Other Paper: Giant shopping mall scheme to eat city

Anyone interested in recent(ish) #LeedsHistory should check out this new @leedscivictrust.bsky.social exhibition in Kirkgate Market. As well as some fascinating photos, there's contemporary coverage of Leeds Development Corporation from Leeds Other Paper and Kirkstall Matters.
Great stuff.

📣LAST FEW TICKETS Heritage Bus Tour: See Your City

This heritage bus tour is a recreation of the popular 'See Your City Tours' run by Leeds City Council until 1974 to show off the city to local ratepayers.

📆Saturday 7 June
⏰10:30 / 13:30
🎫£14/£17
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🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social

Yorkshire Contemporary are transforming a plot of land adjoining Rowland Road Working Men’s Club into an accessible, green play space.

📣Our blue plaques celebrate Leeds' history. We need your help to ensure their future! A Blue Plaques Fund has been launched that will be used to install new plaques, restore existing ones, and promote Leeds’ heritage.

👉Click here to become a donor: 🔗zurl.co/4UXx0

🤝Under 30s Membership🦉For the reduced rate of £15 per year, under 30s members receive all our usual member benefits PLUS an exclusive limited edition Leeds Civic Trust 60th anniversary tote bag AND can bring a friend to one of our events for free.

👉Sign up on our website:🔗 zurl.co/UucO4

🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social

Retreat 2 Rebirth are running engagement activities that record and celebrate dance from the African communities of East and North-East Leeds.

📣APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENSION - 16 JUNE

Recognising that people have been occupied with UKREiif and the half-term holidays, The Leeds Architecture Awards Steering Group has agreed to extend the deadline for entries to midnight on 16th June.

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We had a fantastic behind the scenes tour of @The Met Hotel on Friday. 🍰Our guests were treated to a complimentary afternoon tea served in the hotel restaurant, by kind courtesy of The Met Hotel.

🤝We are pleased to welcome The Met Hotel to our community of corporate members.

❗Due to last minute cancellations we have limited tickets available for our behind the scenes tour of the Met Hotel at 13:30 tomorrow.

This special tour is led by the hotel’s General Manager & is followed by afternoon tea served in the restaurant.

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📸To celebrate the launch of our new exhibition and Civic Day, we are pleased to host two free drop in events flicking through our extensive slide collection of Leeds 1988-1995.

📆Wednesday 4 June 11:00-15:00
📆 Saturday 14 June: 11:00-15:00

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🎉We're proud to have funded 6 projects in the second round of our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @leedscommfound.bsky.social

🌱@tcvhollybush.bsky.social Rhubarb Roots project celebrates the heritage of the Hollybush site with a focus on rhubarb & redesigns their gardens

Our cute little litter eating robo-shark is endangered! 😲Wasteshark currently only swims 1 day a week.We're fundraising to keep him swimming 2 days a week so he can remove 4500 more litres of litter.

💰Donate to keep our robo-shark afloat here 👉zurl.co/Z9mFA

🤔What do you think of the new name?

🚌The West Yorkshire Metro service, branded with a white 'M' in a red circle since 1974, will now be called 'The Weaver Network'. The new branding will be rolled out from 2027.

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Kat Baxter, Leeds Museums and Galleries’ curator of archaeology, holding up a small gold Saxon cross. The top arm of the cross is missing.

A hand covered in a blue glove holds a small gold Saxon cross. The top arm of the cross is missing.

Ancient Saxon pendant gives a glimpse into early medieval Yorkshire 🔎

The tiny treasure, which is thought to have once been a badge of office, was buried for more than 1,200 years in a Leeds field before being unearthed by a metal detectorist.

Read more 👉 orlo.uk/Kbbtn

@leedsmuseums.bsky.social

🎉We've funded 6 projects with our Community Heritage Fund programme, in collaboration with @Leeds Community Foundation. 🎨 Skippko are working with HOPE Halton Moor& Osmondthorpe Project for Everyone to research, develop & design a stained-glass effect window which for HOPE’s new home

🚌 We visited a Better Buses For West Yorkshire event yesterday, campaigning for greater public engagement in the bus franchising process.

👉 Our report 'Imagine an Excellent Bus Service for Leeds' identifies what makes a good bus service to us: zurl.co/9R8DG