Leeds City

About This Group

This group was started in March 2009

Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, U.K.

Leeds
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The City of Leeds
Leeds City – Wikipedia
Virtual Tour – Leeds
Discovering Leeds – The Headrow

Fact File

The ‘Leeds’ name of the city, has derived from its 5th centery name Leoidis.

Leeds became a city by Royal Charter in 1893.

Natives of Leeds are known as Loiners.

The 2001 census puts the population of Leeds at 715,404 – making it the third biggest city in the UK after London and Birmingham.

Leeds is the second largest metropolitan district in the UK; extending 15 miles from east to west, and 13 miles from north to south.
This wide boundary contains some 562 square kilometres.

Leeds is the financial capital of the North.

Leeds is also known as the Knightsbridge of the North due to its city centre shops.

Leeds is one of three cities within the UK that has retained its industrial social housing of back to back houses which were built betwen 1815 -1830. This type of housing was OUTLAWED in all other cities in 1909 FACTS

A photographic Archive of Leeds – BRILLIANT website

Twin towns

The City has several twinning or partnership arrangements:

• Brno, Czech Republic
• Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Dortmund, Germany
• Durban, South Africa
• People’s Republic of China Hangzhou, China
• Lille, France
• Louisville, United States
• Siegen, Germany

The city also has “strong contacts” with the following cities “for the purposes of ongoing projects”

• Braşov, Romania
• St Mary, Jamaica
• Stockholm, Sweden

Related Redbubble groups
North Yorkshire Photographers
Yorkshire Photography Group
Untied Kingdom

External website of interest

Leeds Photographic Society
Founded in 1852, the oldest Photographic Society in the world.

Art in Unusual Places
Art in unusual places is looking for proposals from individuals to display there work in empty shop windows right across Leeds City Centre – anyone can submit a proposal

Ariel Views of Leeds – CHECK THIS OUT

The City of Leeds
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