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Blue Plaques at Leeds University. St George's Field, part of the University of Leeds campus, is the former Woodhouse Cemetery, where is buried Pablo Fanque (William Darby), who was a black circus proprietor for 30 years during the Victorian period. [123] [124] Fanque's wife, Susannah Darby, is also buried at the cemetery. There is a monument ...
The Parkinson Building is a grade II listed building [1] in Greek Revival style by Thomas Lodge [2] located at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.The clock tower is the highest point of the building and stands at 57 metres (187 ft) tall, making it the 17th-tallest building in the city of Leeds.
A list of universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, educational institutions with university status by the Office for Students (formerly the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)and mainly based in England's Yorkshire and the Humber region, are institutions running courses at both undergraduate (operated by UCAS) and postgraduate levels.
University of Leeds Campus 1825 Grade II listed building (5 August 1976) 53°48'25.769"N, 1°33'17.046"W: 1256277: Botany House, University of Leeds: University of Leeds School of Education building (Q26547166) University of Leeds Campus 1872 Grade II listed building (11 September 1996) 53°48'22.637"N, 1°33'9.752"W: 1255587
Leeds University Business School is situated on the western campus of the University of Leeds, located 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Leeds city centre. The Marks & Spencer company archive is also housed here, containing over 60,000 artefacts and pieces moved there in 2009 from London to Leeds, the birthplace of the company. Further buildings include ...
Bodington Hall was the largest hall of residence of the University of Leeds, in Leeds, England. It was opened in 1961 and closed in 2013. The site still contains the university's main playing fields. [1] Known as Bod within the university, it was located between Lawnswood and Adel, approximately 4 miles
In the 1940s, the "Leeds Public Dispensary and Hospital" is recorded as sponsoring pharmaceutical research undertaken by the University of Leeds. [1] The Medical School's current premises, the Worsley Building, was designed by the Building Design Partnership [ 2 ] and officially opened by the Duke of Kent in March 1979.
The University of Leeds was one of the earliest British universities to establish a school of geography in 1919. Various types of geography, including commercial geography, had been taught at the Yorkshire College (which preceded the University of Leeds) and in the university economics department before 1919. This reflects an earlier and ...