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Leeds & Bradford Airport – (2)

4th November 1984: British Airways 747 lands on the newly opened runway, vehicles entering the underpass which was constructed to accommodate the runway extension.

Leeds & Bradford Airport – (3)

Crowds of people on Cemetery Road waiting for the arrival of Concorde at Leeds Bradford Airport. The first flight in…

Leeds Co-operative Store – 1928

This branch of the Leeds Industrial Cooperative Society was on Town Hall Square, built after the alterations to the square in 1928. In the right window…

Liberal Club

Liberal Club on the High Street, on the right W Boyes has a shop. The Club…

Liberal Club Party

Children enjoying a Christmas party but at which Liberal club?

Library

In the mid 1960s the library service was operated from a room in Yeadon Town Hall, Aireborough Librarian Brian Shackleton reported to Aireborough Urban District Council that this service was inadequate. The Council…

Lister’s Store – 1910

Situated on the High Street at the junction with Club Row, Lister’s was a grocers and provision merchants. Hams and bacon hang over…

Local Boys

Boys riding their bikes on the Westfield estate, from the left…

Local Choirs

Yeadon and District Ladies Choir, a note on the image implies that the choir had …

Lockout Rallies – 1913

A crowd outside Yeadon Town Hall, some of them carrying musical instruments. They…

Long Stoop (1)

…This tall, roughly-hewn stoop stone is actually a boundary stone or guide stone and is a tallish, rough-hewn gritstone pillar…

Long Stoop (2)

message on the reverse reads: “Rufford Thurs AM. Still in the land of pains, Dr cut it out, nasty carbuncle (a carbuncle is an abscess deep…

Long Stoop (3)

Members of Aireborough Civic Society stand next to a newly installed plaque which has information about the Long Stoop.

Long-Towers Wedding – 1899

…The bride is Clara Louisa Towers aged 26, she was a woollen weaver at Murgatroyds…

Long, Benny – Undated

Benny Long was a local butcher….

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Early Vehicles