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Leeds
Sapling's City Gateways bring together all our content relating to specific cities in the UK and Ireland. This Gateway features links to web sites that are relevant to Leeds and West Yorkshire, as well as details of local books, events and news.
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Sapling Bookstore (4)
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Pevsner Architectural Guides: Leeds
Susan Wrathmell
(2005)
Paperback - 320 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300107366
Synopsis by publisher:
The richly diverse architectural heritage of Leeds, from the mighty Town Hall to its daring 1960s university campus, is fully explored in this essential guide. A series of walks reveal each period of development, from medieval wool town to vibrant twenty-first century city, covering buildings as diverse as the Jacobean church of St John, the relics of nineteenth century industry and opulent Victorian shopping arcades. Excursions into the suburbs and beyond take the reader to Kirkstall Abbey, Temple Newsam and the Norman church at Adel. Colour photographs, maps and plans make this an invaluable companion.
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Great British Bus Journeys: Travels Through Unfamous Places
David McKie
(2006)
Hardcover - 352 pages
Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1843541327
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Great British Bus Journeys travels to Britain's most unfashionable towns (using the least reliable method of transport) to uncover the nation's secret history. Starting on a green bus in Leeds, the city of his birth, and culminating atop the number 94 as it swooshes past Trafalgar Square in London, David McKie reclaims British towns from the embarrassment and neglect for which they are famed. From Frinton-on-Sea to Bradwell-juxta-Mare, McKie rescues cities and villages from the condescension of snobbish urbanites.
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The Buildings of England - Yorkshire: The West Riding
Nikolaus Pevsner, Enid Radcliffe
(2002)
Hardcover - 656 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096623
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A vast area, incorporating most of present day South and West Yorkshire, the West Riding embraces the industrial landscapes of Sheffield and Barnsley (steel and coal), Leeds, Bradford and the Pennine valleys (engineering and wool), the beautiful sheep country of the Dales, and rich arable acres in the east, each of them with its own strong and distinctive building tradition. Of individual buildings, Ripon has the only English cathedral with substantial Saxon work surviving; Fountains Abbey, set in eighteenth-century landscaped grounds, is arguably the most beautiful ruin in England; twelfth-century Conisbrough marks the climax of the development of the keep in military architecture and the house at Wentworth Woodhouse manages, extraordinarily, to be both Baroque and Palladian at the same time. Huddersfield has an early railway station in the purest Corinthian, Leeds town hall embodies Victorian civic pride, while Halifax has the unique Piece Hall, a vast eighteenth-century cloth market.
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