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An image showing plans for the Middlecross extra care housing scheme in Armley, Leeds.

The Story Time exhibition opens at Abbey House Museum this weekend and features a huge variety of historic books and games, each exploring the magical world of children’s stories. With objects spanning hundreds of years of captivating tales, the exhibition aims to look at how reading, learning and enjoying stories has changed through the ages, and the huge influence children’s books have had on their education, play and imaginations.

The Story Time exhibition opens at Abbey House Museum this weekend and features a huge variety of historic books and games, each exploring the magical world of children’s stories. With objects spanning hundreds of years of captivating tales, the exhibition aims to look at how reading, learning and enjoying stories has changed through the ages, and the huge influence children’s books have had on their education, play and imaginations.

The Story Time exhibition opens at Abbey House Museum this weekend and features a huge variety of historic books and games, each exploring the magical world of children’s stories. With objects spanning hundreds of years of captivating tales, the exhibition aims to look at how reading, learning and enjoying stories has changed through the ages, and the huge influence children’s books have had on their education, play and imaginations.

The Story Time exhibition opens at Abbey House Museum this weekend and features a huge variety of historic books and games, each exploring the magical world of children’s stories. With objects spanning hundreds of years of captivating tales, the exhibition aims to look at how reading, learning and enjoying stories has changed through the ages, and the huge influence children’s books have had on their education, play and imaginations.

The Story Time exhibition opens at Abbey House Museum this weekend and features a huge variety of historic books and games, each exploring the magical world of children’s stories. With objects spanning hundreds of years of captivating tales, the exhibition aims to look at how reading, learning and enjoying stories has changed through the ages, and the huge influence children’s books have had on their education, play and imaginations.

Just a few of the city’s vast collection of precious herbarium sheets was collected by botanists and horticulturalists over the past 200 years, with many of the fragile plants gathered in parks and grassland in east Leeds. Stored at the Leeds Discovery Centre, the plants are now set to be studied by people living and working in the same area where they once grew, connecting their communities and ecosystems through time.

Curator Clare Brown with just a few of the city’s vast collection of precious herbarium sheets was collected by botanists and horticulturalists over the past 200 years, with many of the fragile plants gathered in parks and grassland in east Leeds. Stored at the Leeds Discovery Centre, the plants are now set to be studied by people living and working in the same area where they once grew, connecting their communities and ecosystems through time.

Curator Clare Brown with just a few of the city’s vast collection of precious herbarium sheets was collected by botanists and horticulturalists over the past 200 years, with many of the fragile plants gathered in parks and grassland in east Leeds. Stored at the Leeds Discovery Centre, the plants are now set to be studied by people living and working in the same area where they once grew, connecting their communities and ecosystems through time.

Curator Clare Brown with just a few of the city’s vast collection of precious herbarium sheets was collected by botanists and horticulturalists over the past 200 years, with many of the fragile plants gathered in parks and grassland in east Leeds. Stored at the Leeds Discovery Centre, the plants are now set to be studied by people living and working in the same area where they once grew, connecting their communities and ecosystems through time.

Curator Clare Brown with just a few of the city’s vast collection of precious herbarium sheets was collected by botanists and horticulturalists over the past 200 years, with many of the fragile plants gathered in parks and grassland in east Leeds. Stored at the Leeds Discovery Centre, the plants are now set to be studied by people living and working in the same area where they once grew, connecting their communities and ecosystems through time.