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Other outfits include a father and son in Wakefield wearing suits and riding matching penny farthing bikes, a fashion print from a Victorian women’s fashion magazine from around 1885 and a carefully posed picture of a mother and daughter from the 1860s, both wearing formal dress. The exhibition also features an album of photographs documenting a spectacular children’s fancy dress ball hosted at Leeds Town Hall by the mayor and mayoress of Leeds, Mr and Mrs Alf Cooke, on January 12, 1891.

Other outfits include a father and son in Wakefield wearing suits and riding matching penny farthing bikes, a fashion print from a Victorian women’s fashion magazine from around 1885 and a carefully posed picture of a mother and daughter from the 1860s, both wearing formal dress. The exhibition also features an album of photographs documenting a spectacular children’s fancy dress ball hosted at Leeds Town Hall by the mayor and mayoress of Leeds, Mr and Mrs Alf Cooke, on January 12, 1891.

The exhibition also features an album of photographs documenting a spectacular children’s fancy dress ball hosted at Leeds Town Hall by the mayor and mayoress of Leeds, Mr and Mrs Alf Cooke, on January 12, 1891.

The exhibition also features an album of photographs documenting a spectacular children’s fancy dress ball hosted at Leeds Town Hall by the mayor and mayoress of Leeds, Mr and Mrs Alf Cooke, on January 12, 1891.

Kevin Busby, site manager for construction company Willmott Dixon, and Councillor Jess Lennox, Leeds City Council's executive member for housing, pictured in April 2025 following the start of work on the Hough Top housing scheme at Swinnow. The development forms part of Leeds’s Council Housing Growth Programme.

The new Hough Top housing development currently taking shape in Swinnow. The scheme is part of Leeds's Council Housing Growth Programme.

The Gascoigne House extra care scheme in Middleton, pictured in November 2023. The scheme was delivered as part of Leeds's Council Housing Growth Programme.

Some of the family homes built as part of a housing development in Middleton that also includes the Gascoigne House extra care scheme and 16 wheelchair-accessible bungalows. The development was delivered through Leeds's Council Housing Growth Programme.

An image showing plans for the Middlecross extra care housing scheme, which is currently being built in Armley as part of Leeds’s Council Housing Growth Programme.

Leeds City Council passenger transport driver Adam Butterfield and Councillor Debra Coupar (Leeds City Council’s deputy leader and executive member for resources) on board one of the new Treka Mobility+ minibuses.

Leeds City Council passenger transport driver Adam Butterfield shows Councillor Debra Coupar (Leeds City Council’s deputy leader and executive member for resources) some of the features on one of the new Treka Mobility+ minibuses.

Councillor Debra Coupar (Leeds City Council’s deputy leader and executive member for resources) takes a look at one of the new Treka Mobility+ minibuses.