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The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. It was founded in 1768, [ 1 ] following an advertisement placed in the Leeds Intelligencer earlier that year. The first secretary was Joseph Priestley . [ 2 ]
Leeds Central Library is a public library in Leeds. Situated in the city centre, on Calverley Street, it houses the city library service's single largest general lending and reference collection and hosts the Leeds Art Gallery .
‘Women, Reading, and the Leeds Library’, in Ruth Robbins and Christopher Webster (eds) Through the Pages: 250 years of The Leeds Library, Leeds: The Leeds Library (2018), pp. 105-121. 'Zionism in Leeds 1892-1939' in Leeds and its Jewish Community (edited by Derek Fraser) (2019)
Thomas Johnson (c.1762–1814) was a British architect who designed the 1808 building for the Leeds Library in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He built William Hey's house at 1, Albion Place, Leeds, and Holy Trinity Church, Halifax. It is possible that he also worked on the redesign of the south west section of Temple Newsam House, near Leeds. [1]
Leeds Library, the oldest surviving subscription library in the UK, is located on this street. [3] [4] The street runs west from Briggate to Albion Street, continuing to the east as Kirkgate, and to the west as Bond Street. It has junctions on its north side with Lands Lane, and on the south side with Bank Street and Marcelo Bielsa Way.
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society is a learned society in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1819, and its museum collection forms the basis of Leeds City Museum, which reopened in September 2008. The printed works and papers of the society are held by Leeds University Library.
Leeds Central Library. NHS health services are provided by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds Primary Care Trust, [298] and Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, [299] [300] which provides mental health services. Leeds General Infirmary ("LGI") is a listed building with more recent additions and is in the city centre.
The Brotherton Library is a 1936 Grade II listed Neoclassical building with some art deco fittings, located on the main campus of the University of Leeds.It was designed by the firm of Lanchester & Lodge, and is named after Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton, who in 1927 donated £100,000 to the university as funding for its first purpose-built library.