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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

Arlo the Owl, the council's safe and sustainable travel mascot, meeting pupils from Ireland Wood Primary School before their walk to school

Leeds Museums and Galleries learning and access officer Jed Atkinson examines the huge mammoth tusk at the Leeds Discovery Centre. The prehistoric appendage was discovered in the former open cast site near Temple Newsam in the late 1960s, more than 38,000 years after the extinct, ice age behemoth it once belonged to died. Today, the remarkable find is among countless objects spanning millions of years of history being cared for during an annual deep clean carried out by experts at the Leeds Discovery Centre.

Leeds Museums and Galleries learning and access officer Jed Atkinson examines the huge mammoth tusk at the Leeds Discovery Centre. The prehistoric appendage was discovered in the former open cast site near Temple Newsam in the late 1960s, more than 38,000 years after the extinct, ice age behemoth it once belonged to died. Today, the remarkable find is among countless objects spanning millions of years of history being cared for during an annual deep clean carried out by experts at the Leeds Discovery Centre.