Remembrance Day aka known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day and Veterans Day is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I. This day remembers and honours the soldiers who died in the line of duty. This day, or alternative dates, are also recognized as special days for war remembrances [...]
If I should ever leave you whom I love To go along the Silent Way, grieve not, Nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk Of me as if I were beside you there. (I’d come– I’d come, could I but find a way! But would not tears and grief be barriers?) And [...]
Roundhay Park In the 13th century Roundhay was a hunting park for the DeLacy family of Pontefract Castle. In 1872, John Barran the Lord Mayor of Leeds bought the 3mile square (1920 acre) estate for the city. Barran was ridiculed for buying the estate and it was subsequently called a ‘White Elephant’. His critics said [...]
Briggate at this point has seen many changes since it was created as a great market place in 1207.
The square was opened in 1903 ten years after Leeds became a city. It originally took the form of an elevated circular podium surrounded by a stone balustrade on which were set the morn and eve statues which were relocated in the 1960s.
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