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Over 600 square metres of rooftop solar panels have been installed at the council-run plant nursery and garden centre The Arium, expecting to cut its energy consumption by 39 per cent.

Over 600 square metres of rooftop solar panels have been installed at the council-run plant nursery and garden centre The Arium, expecting to cut its energy consumption by 39 per cent.

Alex Pearson, archives assistant with West Yorkshire Archive Service with the copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

Alex Pearson, archives assistant with West Yorkshire Archive Service with the copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

West Yorkshire Archive Service preserve the copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

Alex Pearson, archives assistant with West Yorkshire Archive Service with the copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

Alex Pearson, archives assistant with West Yorkshire Archive Service with the copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

Alex Pearson, archives assistant with West Yorkshire Archive Service with the copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

Alex Pearson, archives assistant with West Yorkshire Archive Service with the copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

The copy of the Leeds Charter and a second ornate charter, granted decades later in 1661 by Charles II are preserved by West Yorkshire Archives Service. The granting of the prestigious charter changed the course of the city’s history, laying the foundations of modern-day Leeds by incorporating it as a “free borough” and a “body corporate and politic.”

The new display at Leeds City Museum gives visitors a chance to see a selection of the vast array of replicas created by physicist Dr Gordon Brooke (pictured), which were found in a box room by his astonished family following his death at the age of 82.