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Greener travel methods introduced in the city include improving infrastructure for cyclists and walkers in line with the Connecting Leeds Strategy.

Leeds schoolmistress Lily Cathcart, who was a pupil teacher at Quarry Mount School before attending Darlington Training College in 1905 and being awarded a string of certificates for her academic achievements.

Lily Cathcart (back row, second from right) with colleagues at Quarry Mount School in Leeds, where she was a student teacher.

Sara Merritt (far left), Leeds Museums and Galleries' audience development officer, shows the precious wedding dress to (L-R) Jennifer Slater, Christina Bromley, Emmeline Bromley and Alexander Bromley, the family of Lily Cathcart.

Sara Merritt (far left), Leeds Museums and Galleries' audience development officer, shows the precious wedding dress to (L-R) Jennifer Slater, Christina Bromley, Emmeline Bromley and Alexander Bromley, the family of Lily Cathcart.

Worn by Lily on her wedding day on September 10, 1910, the beautiful dress was filled with weights, designed to give it a fashionable “scroop” or rustling noise, but also making it fragile and requiring delicate handling by the city’s textile experts over the past five-and-a-half decades. Remarkably, it still even has several tiny pieces of confetti from the wedding day embedded in its delicate embroidery. A classic example of the elegant style of the time, the dress is made of cream silk satin with a silk chiffon pleated overlay. Its high stand collar is trimmed with lace, extremely fashionable for the period, and the front of the dress is heavily decorated with silver beads.

The descendants of Leeds schoolmistress Lily Cathcart travelled to the Leeds Discovery Centre this week, where they viewed their precious family heirloom, donated to the museum by Lily’s daughters Bessie, Jean and Isabel in the early 1970s. L-R is Lily’s great, great grandson Alexander Bromley, Christina Bromley, Jennifer Slater and Emmeline Bromley, whose namesake Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the leading lights of the Suffrage movement.

A computer-generated image showing Leeds City Council's vision for the market's blockshops area.

Councillor Jonathan Pryor, Leeds City Council’s deputy leader and executive member for economy, transport and sustainable development, pictured in October last year with some of the refurbished blockshop units at Leeds Kirkgate Market.