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This November marks 20 years since The Carriageworks first opened its doors, taking its name from the West Riding Carriage Manufactory which occupied the site in the early Victorian era in what is now The Electric Press. Over the last two decades, the venue has hosted more than a million audience members to more than 2,000 productions, with an eclectic programme focused on community and children’s theatre and created by local theatre-makers.

Snow White (2023) at the Carriageworks Theatre. Credit Elouisa Georgiu.

Snow White (2023) at The Carriageworks Theatre. Credit Elouisa Georgiu.

Cinderella (2022) at The Carriageworks Theatre. Credit Elouisa Georgiu.

Beauty and the Beast (2024) at The Carriageworks Theatre. Credit Abby Swaine.

Curator Nigel Walsh with John Atkinson Grimshaw's Iris, one of the works on display as part of Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw, which opens at Leeds Art Gallery this November 14.

Curator Nigel Walsh with John Atkinson Grimshaw's Iris, one of the works on display as part of Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw, which opens at Leeds Art Gallery this November 14.

Technicians at Leeds Art Gallery hang John Atkinson Grimshaw's famous depiction of Park Row in Leeds, one of the works on display as part of Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw, which opens at Leeds Art Gallery this November 14.

Technicians at Leeds Art Gallery hang John Atkinson Grimshaw's famous depiction of Park Row in Leeds, one of the works on display as part of Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw, which opens at Leeds Art Gallery this November 14.

Curator Kitty Ross with the mysterious iron cauldron at the Leeds Discovery Centre. The cauldron was originally discovered in a cellar in Chapeltown in 2012 after workers came to investigate a peculiar dripping sound which the resident could not locate. Removing a wall, they discovered what appeared to be a petrified object which was later identified as a metal cauldron, sealed behind the wall in what is believed to have been part of an ancient practice designed to protect the house and its residents from malign or supernatural forces.