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The following is a list of plaques placed within the City of Leeds by Leeds Civic Trust to celebrate people or historic sites.

The main ones are cast aluminium 18 inches in diameter with lettering in relief and can be repainted when badly worn. Where space is limited a 14-inch one is used with fewer words. In the case of Whitkirk Manor House (155) a rectangular one was used to get more words in the restricted width. Four (60, 62, 63, 72) are millennium plaques of 20 inches with gold letters and edging.[1]

They are numbered according to the books given in the bibliography up to 180. 181 onwards are numbered according to the date of erection. There is one which is not numbered and green instead of blue. Some are photographed before mounting, others in situ.

There are also printed polymer ones celebrating the LGBT history in Leeds, referred to as Rainbow plaques.[2]

Blue Plaques[edit]

Number Image Title Location / Notes
1
Burley Bar Stone Entrance to Leeds Building Society, 105 Albion Street, LS1 5AS
2
Louis Le Prince South-east corner of Leeds Bridge LS10 1NB
3
Louis Le Prince Broadcasting Place LS2 9EN
4
Temple Mill LS11 9YJ
5
18 Park Place LS1 2SP
6
The Victoria Hotel 23 Great George St, LS1 3DL
7
The Assembly Rooms Behind the Corn Exchange LS2 7DE
8
Kemplay's Academy 51 New Briggate LS2 9JE
9
Brodrick's Buildings 43-51 Cookridge Street LS2 3AW
10
The West Bar 34-38 Boar Lane LS1 5HL
11
Park Square 45 Park Square LS1 2NP
12
Leeds Manor House Scarborough Hotel, Bishopsgate Street LS1 5DY
13
St Paul's House Park Square, LS1 2ND
14
Leeds Charity School Mark Lane, LS2 8JA
15
Hotel Metropole King Street, LS1 2HQ
16
Yorkshire Penny Bank Infirmary Street, LS1 2JP
17
William Hey's House 1 Albion Place, LS1 6JL
18
Leeds Infirmary Great George Street, LS1 3EX
19
Leeds School of Medicine Thoresby Place, LS2 9NL
20
Queens Court Lower Briggate, LS1 6YL
21
Leeds & Liverpool Canal Warehouse 1 Canal Wharf, Water Lane LS11 5BB
22
Bank of England 1 South Parade, LS1 5QL
23
A. S. L. E. & F. The Commercial Inn, Sweet Street, LS11 9TE, corner with corner of Marshall Street (not visible July 2019)
24
The Great Synagogue Belgrave Street, LS2 8DD
25
Mill Hill Chapel and Joseph Priestley City Square, LS1 5DQ
26
The Church Institute 9 Albion Place, LS1 6JL
27
Coloured Cloth Hall Infirmary Street, LS2 2HT
28
Fairbairn House 71 Clarendon Road, LS2 9PJ
29
Atkinson Grimshaw 56 Cliff Road, LS6 2EZ
30
John Harrison 23 Great George St, LS1 3DL
31
White Cloth Hall Behind the Corn Exchange, Crown Street, LS1 7RB
32
Joshua Tetley Gatepost, Hunslet Road, LS10 1JQ
33
Ralph Thoresby, FRS 15 Kirkgate, LS1 6BY
34
Arthur Ransome 6 Ash Grove, LS6 1AY
35
Aire & Calder Navigation Riverside Court, Call Lane, LS1 7BU
36
North-Eastern Railway Viaduct Swinegate, LS1 4AG
37
Tower Works Globe Road, LS11 5QU
38
Samuel Smiles Leeds City Museum, Cookridge Street, LS2 3AD
39
Fletland Mills 42 The Calls, LS2 7EW
40
Joseph Aspdin Packhorse Yard off Briggate, LS1 6AT
41
Yorkshire Ladies' Council of Education 18 Blenheim Terrace, LS2 9AR
42
St Aidan's Church Roundhay Road LS8 5QD
43
East Bar Leeds Parish Church boundary wall, Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ (Small plaque: 14 inches)
44
Sir Leonard Hutton (Cricketer) 5 Fulneck, Pudsey, LS28 8NT
45
Leeds College of Art Vernon Street, LS2 9AQ
46
First Leeds Synagogue Merrion Centre, LS2 8NG
47
The City Varieties Swan Street, LS2 9AQ
48
Central Higher Grade School 2 Great George Street, LS2 8BA
49
Leeds Union Workhouse Thackray Medical Museum, Beckett Street, LS2 7LN
50
Oakwood Clock Corner of Roundhay Road and Princes Avenue, LS8 2HU
51
Golden Acre Park Cafe in the park, Otley Road, LS16 8BQ
52
Leeds Burial Ground Beckett Street, LS9 7LS
53
Leeds School Board Calverly Street, LS1 3ED
54
Moortown Golf Club Harrogate Road, LS11 7DB
55
Bank Mills Rose Wharf, East Street, LS9 8EE
56
Queen's Arcade Briggate, LS1 6LF
57
Meanwood Tannery Millpond Road, LS6 4ED
58
Burmantofts Pottery
59
Potternewton Mansion Harehills Lane, LS9 7ED (plaque in poor condition)
60
Victoria Quarter Between Briggate and Vicar Lane, LS1 6BE (Millennium plaque: 20 inches)
61
William Congreve Bardsey Grange, Cornmill Lane, LS17 9EQ
62 no image yet Leeds Town Hall Calverley Street entrance, LS1 3AD (Millennium plaque: 20 inches)
63
Kirkgate Market (former Butchers' Row) LS2 7HY (Millennium plaque: 20 inches)
64
Montague Burton Hudson Road, LS9 7DN
65
Kirkstall Brewery Broad Road, LS5 3RX
66
Cliff Tannery Sugarwell Court, Meanwood Road, LS7 2DZ
67
The Philosophical Hall 33 Park Row, LS1 1LD
68
Smithfield Ironworks 90-94 North Street, LS2 7PN
69
The Grange Beckett Park, LS6 3QX
70
Permanent House Brown's Restaurant, The Light, The Headrow, LS1 8EQ
71
Ellen Heaton 6 Woodhouse Square, LS3 1AD
72
Leeds Civic Hall Millennium Square, LS1 iJR (Millennium plaque: 20 inches)
73
E. J. Arnold & Son 3 Lower Briggate, LS1 4AF
74
Leeds Grammar School Moorland Road, LS6 1AN
75
John Deakin Heaton 21 Clarendon Road, LS2 9NZ
76
Sir Berkeley Moynihan 33 Park Square, LS1 3PF
77
Samuel Ledgard Golden Valley (former Nelson Inn), Armley Road, LS12 2LS
78
Frank Kidson 5 Hamilton Avenue, LS7 4EG
79
Mann's Patent Steam Cart & Wagon Company Ltd Pepper Road, LS10 2RU
80
Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company Pepper Road, LS10 2RU
81
Newton House 54 Spencer Place, LS7 4BR
82
The Hunslet Engine Company 125 Jack Lane, LS10 1BJ
83
Dewhirst's and Marks & Spencer Harper Street, LS2 7EA
84
Bardon Hill Stables Weetwood Lane, LS16 5TX
85
Cookridge Hall Cookridge Lane, LS16 7NL
86
Sir John Barran, MP Joseph's Well, Hanover Walk, LS3 1AB
87
The Middleton Railway Moor Road Station, LS10 2JQ
88
Denison Hall Hanover Square, LS3 1BW
89
Olympia Works and Robert Blackburn Tesco Supermarket, 361 Roundhay Road, LS8 4BU
90
Leeds and County Liberal Club Quebecs Hotel, Quebec Street, LS1 2HA
91
The Leeds Club 3 Albion Place, LS1 6JL
92
Mount St Mary's Convent, Orphanage & School Ellerby Road, LS9 8LA
93
Headingley Hall 5 Shire Oak Road, LS6 2DD
94
Canal Gardens Princes Avenue, LS8 2ER
95
Dr Alistir MacKenzie The Corner House Club, 266 Lidgett Lane, LS17 6Q
96
Richard Oastler St Peter's Square, LS9 2AH
97
John Smeaton, FRS Towpath wall, Leeds Lock, by Royal Armouries, LS10 1LT
98
Sir Clifford Allbutt Lyddon Hall, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
99
Leeds General Cemetery Gatehouse to St George's Field, off Clarendon Road, LS2 9JT
100
Whitelock's Ale House Turks Head Yard, off Briggate, LS1 6HB
101
Richard Bentley, FRS DD Bentley Square, LS26 8JH
102
Live at Leeds University of Leeds Refectory, LS2 9JZ
103
The Leeds Rifles Carlton Barracks, Carlton Green Lane, LS7 1HE
104
Leeds Co-operative Society Gatepost to Leodis Court, LS11 5JJ
105
Leonora Cohen JP OBE 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road, LS2 9NY
106
J & H McLaren's England Engine Works 100 Jack Lane, LS10 1BN
107
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, LS1 6AL
108
William Turton 64 The Calls, LS2 7EF
109
Bramley Rugby Football League Football Club The Barley Mow Inn, Town Street, LS13 3EW
110
Adelaide Neilson Leeds Playhouse side entrance, LS2 7UP
111
BBC Radio in Leeds Foyer, BBC Broadcasting Centre, 2 St Peter's Square, LS9 8AH
112
Stocks Hill, Bramley By pump, Town Street, LS13 3NA
113
Albert Goldthorpe John Charles Centre for Sport, Middleton Grove, LS11 5JD
114
Elmete Hall Elmete Lane, LS8 2LJ
115
Gledhow Hall Boundary wall, junction of Gledhow Lane and Gledhow Wood Road, LS8 2LJ
116
The Yorkshire College Textile Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
117
Lady Betty Hastings Entrance to Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, LS1 6HW
118
Wortley Grammar School 69 Lower Wortley Road, LS12 4SL
119
Hedley Verity 4 Welton Grove, LS6 1ES
120
Isabella Ford Adel Grange Residential Home, Adel Grange Close, LS16 8HX
121
The Mansion Mansion Lane, LS8 2HH
122
Rawdon College Woodlands Drive, LS19 6JZ
123
Carlton Hill Friends Meeting House Old Broadcasting House, 160b Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9EN
124
William Astbury 189 Kirkstall Lane, LS8 3EJ
125
The Crucible of Darts Leeds Irish Centre, York Road, LS9 9NT
126
The Leeds Oddfellows 2 Queen Square, LS2 8AF
127
Sir Charles Wilson MP Northern School of Contemporary Dance, 98 Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH
128
Lady Sue Ryder of Warsaw Scarcroft Grange, Wetherby Road, LS14 3HJ
129
Ivy Benson 59 Cemetery Road, Beeston LS11
130
Central Station Hoist Wellington Place, LS1 4AJ
131
Gertrude Maretta Paul Bracken Edge Primary School, Newton Road, LS7 4HE
132
Salem Chapel rear of chapel, 11-15 Hunslet Road, LS10 1JW
133
The Revd Charles Jenkinson St John & St Barnabas Church, Belle Isle Road, LS10 3DN
134
House of Faith 21 Leopold Street, LS7 4DA
135
The Leeds Arts Club 8 Blenheim Terrace, LS2 9HZ
136
The Majestic Cinema City Square, LS1 1PJ
137
Cottage Road Cinema Cottage Road, LS6 4DD
138
J. R. R. Tolkien CBE 2 Darnley Road, LS16 5JF
139
The New Synagogue Northern School of Contemporary Dance, LS7 4BH
140
The Railway Roundhouse Wellington Road, LS12 1DR
141
The ORT Technical Engineering School New Horizons Community School, Newton Hill Road, LS7 4JE
142
Leeds Trades Club Leeds Media Centre, 21 Savile Mount, LS7 3HZ
143
Leeds Corn Exchange Call Lane, LS1 7BR
144
Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House 46 New Briggate, LS1 6NZ
145
Leeds Methodist Pioneers Leeds Playhouse, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP
146
Headingley Rugby Ground Headingley Lane, LS16 5PS
147
Weetwood Hall Otley Road, LS16 5PS
148
Gipton Board School Shine, Harehills Road, LS8 5HS
149
Beryl Burton OBE Beryl Burton Gardens, Queen Street, LS27 9BU
150
Crown Point Printing Works Leeds City College Printworks, Hunslet Road, LS10 1JY
151
John Fowler Costco Car park, Leathley Road, LS10 1BG
152
Barnbow Royal Ordnance Factory Former factory gates, Austhorpe Road, LS15 1 BF
153
Mary Gawthorpe 9 Warrel's Mount, LS13 3NU
154
The South Bar South end of Leeds Bridge, LS10 1NB
155
Whitkirk Manor House Colton Road, LS15 9AA
156
Leeds Civic Trust 17-19 Wharf Street, LS2 7EQ
157
Chapel Allerton Hall Gledhow Lane, LS7 4NP
158
Thomas Edward Harvey 5 Grosvenor Terrace, LS6 2DY
159
Hepper House 174 East Parade, LS1 2BH
160
The New Penny 57-59 Call Lane, LS1 2BH
161
Herbert Sutcliffe & Sir Leonard Hutton Pudsey St Lawrence Cricket Ground, Tofts Road, LS28 7SQ
162
St Michael's College The Court, Clarendon Quarter, St John's Road, LS3 1EX
163
Kenneth Armitage Mandela Gardens, Millennium Square, LS2 3AD
164
North Bar The Old Red Bus Station, 101 Vicar Lane, LS2 7NL
165
Benjamin Gott Gotts Park Golf Club, LS12 2QX
166
William Gascoigne Patel Store, Town Street, LS10 3PN
167
Agnes Logan Stewart Bridge Community Church, Rider Street, LS9 7BQ
168
Maurice Ellis FRSC Leeds General Infirmary, Gatepost of main George Street entrance, LS1 3EX
169
Marshall's Mill Marshall Street, LS11 9YJ
170
Titus Salt 91 Queen Street, L27 8EF
171
Charles Barker Howdill 14 Hanover Square, LS3 1AP
172
Alice Bacon MP Inside Leeds Corn Exchange, Call Lane, LS1 7BR
173
Albert Johanneson Entrance to East Stand, LS11 OES
174
Catherine Mawer Starbucks, 48 Albion Street, LS1 6AB
175
The Mawer Group 30 Park Place, LS1 2SP
176
Holbeck Working Men's Club HWMC, Jenkin's Lawn, LS11 9QX
177
R. A. H. Livett OBE 73 Wykebeck Valley Road, LS9 6PB (not as stated in "Blue Plaques of Leeds The Next Collection)
178
Morley Town Hall Queen Street, LS27 9DY
179
Keith Waterhouse Hunslet Library, Waterloo Street, LS10 2NS
180
Jim Bullock OBE Bowers Row Chapel, Bowers Row, LS26 8DF
181
Dr Edith Mary Pechey 8 Park Square, LS2 1LH 26 July 2021[3]
182
Percy "Don" Robins St. George's Crypt LS1 3BR 10 September 2021
183
Selig Brodetsky 3 Grosvenor Road LS6 2DZ 10 October 2021[4]
184
Fanny Passavant Great Hall, University of Leeds 30 November 2021[5]
185
Esther Simpson OBE Esther Simpson Building Leeds University 8 March 2022[6]
186
David Oluwale Leeds Bridge 25 April 2022, removed and missing the same evening,[7] replaced 23 October 2022

[8]

Unnumbered Plaque[edit]

Number Image Title Location . Notes
George Edwin Ellison By front entrance of Leeds City Station[9]

Rainbow Plaques[edit]

Number Image Title Location / Notes
1
The Grove The Grove Inn, Back Row, Leeds
2
Charlie's Nightclub Queen's Court, Briggate
3 missing Sykes and Raynor The Regent, Kirkgate
4
Mill Hill Chapel Mill Hill Chapel, City Square
5
Cyril Livingstone Hotel Chocolat, 20 Albion Place, Leeds LS1 6JS
6
My Sex - Our Dance: DV8 Physical Theatre Yorkshire Dance, St Peter's Square, Leeds
7
Angela Morley BBC building, St Peter's Square, Leeds
8 Alan Bennett Leeds Playhouse
10
Swarthmore Centre / Committee for Homosexual Equality Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, Leeds LS3 1AD
11
Soft Cell Woodhouse Building of Leeds Beckett University, Woodhouse Lane
12
Nicola Adams wall of First Direct Arena
13
'Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society' Parkinson Building, University of Leeds
14
Section 28 door of Leeds Central Library, on Centenary Square
15
Polari City Varieties Theatre. Swan Street,

References[edit]

  1. ^ Grady & Tyrrell 2020, p. 11
  2. ^ "The Rainbow Plaque Trail" (PDF). leedscivictrust.org.uk. Leeds Civic Trust. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  3. ^ Palfery, Becky (26 July 2021). "The Unveiling of a Blue Plaque to Edith Pechey". leedscivictrust.org.uk. Leeds Civic Trust. Retrieved 2 February 2022. We are pleased to announce that our 181st Blue Plaque has been unveiled.
  4. ^ "Blue Plaque Unveiling For Selig Brodetsky". leedscivictrust.org.uk. Leeds Civic Trust. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  5. ^ Griffiths, Prue (1 December 2021). "Blue plaque to honour University's first Librarian". www.leeds.ac.uk. University of Leeds. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  6. ^ Hutchinson, Andrew (8 March 2022). "Esther Simpson: Blue plaque honour for Leeds humanitarian". Yorkshire Evening Post. Leeds. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
  7. ^ Jacob, Liana (26 April 2022). "Who is David Oluwale, how did he die and what happened to the blue Leeds Bridge plaque displayed in memory of David Oluwale?". Yorkshire Post. Leeds. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  8. ^ "Replacement stolen memorial plaque to David Oluwale installed". BBC News. 23 October 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  9. ^ "Leeds plaque for soldier killed as WW1 ended". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2022.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Dyson, Peter; Grady, Kevin (2001). Blue Plaques of Leeds. Leeds: Leeds Civic Trust. ISBN 0905671228.
  • Grady, Kevin; Tyrrell, Robert (2020). Blue Plaques of Leeds The Next Collection. Leeds: Leeds Civic Trust. ISBN 978-0-905671-99-4.
  • "The Rainbow Plaque Trail" (PDF). leedscivictrust.org.uk. Leeds Civic Trust. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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