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L-R Jordan Keighley from the Leeds Museums and Galleries Community Team at The British Museum with Young Smeatonian volunteers Sarah Barrett and Cherry Tucker alongside Aleks Fagelman, assistant community curator at Leeds Industrial Museum.

Picture of design for new Leeds Children's Hospital

13th July 1907. Jonathan Peate, local mill owner and philanthropist gifted this park to the people of Yeadon. This is part of the official opening ceremony. The Peate family also gave Nethermoor Park and Nunroyd Park to the town at later dates. In this view everyone is dressed in the fashion of the period.

Photograph of an engraving of Temple Newsam by Kip and Knyff was sent to the Parks department by Miss Kitson from the original at Temple Newsam. Johannes (Jan) Kip and Leonard Knyff were Dutch draughtsmen, engravers and painters in the late 17th/early 18th centuries who specialised in engraved views of English country houses. This was one of many featured in their "Britannia Illustrata" published c1708.

View showing crowds of spectators watching a display of Maypole dancing at the annual Children's Day at Roundhay Park. This was a popular event, attended by schools from all over the city, which ran from 1920 until the 1960s. Children took part in physical exercise displays and dancing and a Queen was crowned each year.

Staff member Neil Battison with some of the books on display at The Compton Centre as part of Green Libraries Week. Titles offering everything from top gardening tips, environmentally friendly recipes and information about the climate emergency will be among the Green Reads on show at libraries and community hubs across the city.

Safe and sustainable travel mascot, Arlo the Owl, guiding pupils from Ireland Wood primary school across the School Street

Arlo the Owl, the council's safe and sustainable travel mascot giving a high five to a pupil from Ireland Wood Primary School

Leeds City Council's safe and sustainable travel team with Arlo the Owl, the council's safe and sustainable travel mascot on Ireland Wood's new School Street