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In 1904, Marks & Spencer relocated its Leeds branch to the then recently opened Cross Arcade (now part of the Victoria Quarter). In 2009, over 60,000 historic artefacts concerning Marks & Spencer were relocated from London to the Centenary Gallery in the Parkinson Building at the University of Leeds .
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council.The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2]
Leeds is home to over 109,000 companies, generating 5% of England's total economic output of £60.5 billion, [6] [7] and is also ranked as a high sufficiency city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. [8] Leeds is considered the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the West Yorkshire Urban Area. [9] [10]
Leeds, [7] also known as the City of Leeds, is a metropolitan borough with city status in West Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough includes the administrative centre of Leeds and the towns of Farsley , Garforth , Guiseley , Horsforth , Morley , Otley , Pudsey , Rothwell , Wetherby and Yeadon . [ 8 ]
The Continental Supermarket on the A58 Roundhay Road, was formerly the Fforde Grene. The Fforde Grene was a public house and music venue located in the Harehills district of the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Fyffes is an old fruit brand dating back to 1929, when the blue label was used on bananas for the first time. [27] Fyffes also import melons. The range covers melon types such as Galia, cantaloupe, charentais, watermelon, piel de sapo and yellow honeydew. The melons are sourced from Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica. [28]
A plan of the envisioned gardens drawn by William Billinton in 1837 Cardigan Road, near Burley Park station, later built through the centre of the zoo site. Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens, also known as Headingley Zoo and later Leeds Royal Gardens, was open between 1840 and 1858 in Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, approximately two miles out of the city centre and covering the area ...
Leeds is known for its culture in the fields of art, architecture, music, sport, film and television. As the largest city in Yorkshire, Leeds is a centre of Yorkshire's contemporary culture and is the base for Yorkshire's television (BBC, ITV, and Channel 4) [1] and regional newspapers.