Leeds Civic Trust
@leedscivictrust.bsky.social
Independent charity interested about the past, present and future of the city of Leeds.
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🎉We are thrilled to announce the celebration of our 60th anniversary in 2025, marking six decades of work in protecting and enhancing the built environment and supporting the city’s cultural heritage. We've got a jam packed year ahead to celebrate...🔗zurl.co/rAJZk
🎉Our guided walks season is back for 2026! This year we're offering 19 guided walks, our biggest season ever!
🦽We have improved our accessibility information are offering even more walks on evenings and weekends and more repeats of walks.
👉Get your tickets now! 🔗 zurl.co/rFq0Q
🦽We have improved our accessibility information are offering even more walks on evenings and weekends and more repeats of walks.
👉Get your tickets now! 🔗 zurl.co/rFq0Q
February 10, 2026 at 12:35 AM
🎉Our guided walks season is back for 2026! This year we're offering 19 guided walks, our biggest season ever!
🦽We have improved our accessibility information are offering even more walks on evenings and weekends and more repeats of walks.
👉Get your tickets now! 🔗 zurl.co/rFq0Q
🦽We have improved our accessibility information are offering even more walks on evenings and weekends and more repeats of walks.
👉Get your tickets now! 🔗 zurl.co/rFq0Q
Here's Dr Kevin Grady to tell you about his second lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Series, ‘The Ingenious Mr Thoresby’.
🦉Leeds in Your Lunch Hour lectures are all FREE! No booking is required, just turn up!
👉13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
🦉Leeds in Your Lunch Hour lectures are all FREE! No booking is required, just turn up!
👉13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Here's Dr Kevin Grady to tell you about his second lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Series, ‘The Ingenious Mr Thoresby’.
🦉Leeds in Your Lunch Hour lectures are all FREE! No booking is required, just turn up!
👉13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
🦉Leeds in Your Lunch Hour lectures are all FREE! No booking is required, just turn up!
👉13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
Here's Dr Kevin Grady to tell you about his first lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Series, '1626 and All That'.
🦉The lectures are at 13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster. Free & open to all.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
🦉The lectures are at 13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster. Free & open to all.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
January 25, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Here's Dr Kevin Grady to tell you about his first lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Series, '1626 and All That'.
🦉The lectures are at 13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster. Free & open to all.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
🦉The lectures are at 13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster. Free & open to all.
🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz
Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
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🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
January 24, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉Lecture 3 - Dr Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds 1837 -1859: The Greatest Parish Priest of the Nineteenth Century
👉 Wednesday 18 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
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🦉Lecture 3 - Dr Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds 1837 -1859: The Greatest Parish Priest of the Nineteenth Century
👉 Wednesday 18 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
January 22, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉Lecture 3 - Dr Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds 1837 -1859: The Greatest Parish Priest of the Nineteenth Century
👉 Wednesday 18 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
🦉Lecture 3 - Dr Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds 1837 -1859: The Greatest Parish Priest of the Nineteenth Century
👉 Wednesday 18 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
🎤Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉 Lecture 2, Wednesday 11 February: The Ingenious Mr Thoresby: First Historian of Leeds 1658-1725
👉 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. 🔗zurl.co/KQ8gL
🦉 Lecture 2, Wednesday 11 February: The Ingenious Mr Thoresby: First Historian of Leeds 1658-1725
👉 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. 🔗zurl.co/KQ8gL
January 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
🎤Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026!
🦉 Lecture 2, Wednesday 11 February: The Ingenious Mr Thoresby: First Historian of Leeds 1658-1725
👉 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. 🔗zurl.co/KQ8gL
🦉 Lecture 2, Wednesday 11 February: The Ingenious Mr Thoresby: First Historian of Leeds 1658-1725
👉 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. 🔗zurl.co/KQ8gL
Our first lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour series is:
1626 and All That: The first Municipal Charter and 400 years of municipal and metropolitan government in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 4 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. Free.
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1626 and All That: The first Municipal Charter and 400 years of municipal and metropolitan government in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 4 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. Free.
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
January 16, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Our first lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour series is:
1626 and All That: The first Municipal Charter and 400 years of municipal and metropolitan government in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 4 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. Free.
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
1626 and All That: The first Municipal Charter and 400 years of municipal and metropolitan government in Leeds
👉 Wednesday 4 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. Free.
🔗 zurl.co/WavUG
🎤Our annual series of FREE lunchtime lectures returns for its 19th year! As part of the Leeds 400 celebrations, the lectures focus on anniversaries marking the history Leeds.
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 AM
🎤Our annual series of FREE lunchtime lectures returns for its 19th year! As part of the Leeds 400 celebrations, the lectures focus on anniversaries marking the history Leeds.
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG
#leeds400
👉Come to our event 'Mills Transformed: Images and Stories of Industrial Mill Regeneration in the North of England'. A Q&A and photographic presentation from Neil Horsley, author of 'Mills Transformed', about mill regeneration.
📆Tuesday 13 Jan. 15:00
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📆Tuesday 13 Jan. 15:00
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January 6, 2026 at 9:50 AM
👉Come to our event 'Mills Transformed: Images and Stories of Industrial Mill Regeneration in the North of England'. A Q&A and photographic presentation from Neil Horsley, author of 'Mills Transformed', about mill regeneration.
📆Tuesday 13 Jan. 15:00
🔗 zurl.co/sgSeG
📆Tuesday 13 Jan. 15:00
🔗 zurl.co/sgSeG
🎅Merry Christmas from Leeds Civic Trust! 🎄
🦉 A warm welcome to everyone who has been gifted a Leeds Civic Trust membership for Christmas! We're looking forward to having you with us in 2026 💙
🦉 A warm welcome to everyone who has been gifted a Leeds Civic Trust membership for Christmas! We're looking forward to having you with us in 2026 💙
December 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🎅Merry Christmas from Leeds Civic Trust! 🎄
🦉 A warm welcome to everyone who has been gifted a Leeds Civic Trust membership for Christmas! We're looking forward to having you with us in 2026 💙
🦉 A warm welcome to everyone who has been gifted a Leeds Civic Trust membership for Christmas! We're looking forward to having you with us in 2026 💙
😬 Need a last minute Christmas gift? Give the gift of a Leeds Civic Trust membership!
Gift membership is the perfect gift for any Loiner (a person who lives in Leeds!) Buy your gift membership today and your gift receiver will get their welcome pack in the post in the new year.
👉zurl.co/V0HoJ
Gift membership is the perfect gift for any Loiner (a person who lives in Leeds!) Buy your gift membership today and your gift receiver will get their welcome pack in the post in the new year.
👉zurl.co/V0HoJ
December 24, 2025 at 8:12 AM
😬 Need a last minute Christmas gift? Give the gift of a Leeds Civic Trust membership!
Gift membership is the perfect gift for any Loiner (a person who lives in Leeds!) Buy your gift membership today and your gift receiver will get their welcome pack in the post in the new year.
👉zurl.co/V0HoJ
Gift membership is the perfect gift for any Loiner (a person who lives in Leeds!) Buy your gift membership today and your gift receiver will get their welcome pack in the post in the new year.
👉zurl.co/V0HoJ
💤The Leeds Civic Trust office is now closed until Monday 5 January for Christmas and New Year.
🎄We hope you have a wonderful Christmas, however you celebrate. See you in 2026!
🎄We hope you have a wonderful Christmas, however you celebrate. See you in 2026!
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
💤The Leeds Civic Trust office is now closed until Monday 5 January for Christmas and New Year.
🎄We hope you have a wonderful Christmas, however you celebrate. See you in 2026!
🎄We hope you have a wonderful Christmas, however you celebrate. See you in 2026!
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Have just nipped into the beautiful Leeds Central Library to collect my Chapel Allerton history book, written by the very affable Steven Burt and edited by @leedstours.bsky.social . It's a hefty tome @leedscivictrust.bsky.social #chapelallerton #leeds #localhistory #publiclibraries
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Have just nipped into the beautiful Leeds Central Library to collect my Chapel Allerton history book, written by the very affable Steven Burt and edited by @leedstours.bsky.social . It's a hefty tome @leedscivictrust.bsky.social #chapelallerton #leeds #localhistory #publiclibraries
🔵 Our 206th blue plaque for Walter Farquhar Hook has now been affixed to the exterior of Leeds Minster for all to see.
🔗Read more about Walter Farquhar Hook here: zurl.co/zSQHN
🔗Read more about Walter Farquhar Hook here: zurl.co/zSQHN
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🔵 Our 206th blue plaque for Walter Farquhar Hook has now been affixed to the exterior of Leeds Minster for all to see.
🔗Read more about Walter Farquhar Hook here: zurl.co/zSQHN
🔗Read more about Walter Farquhar Hook here: zurl.co/zSQHN
🚊The announcement that the first lines in a new West Yorkshire mass transit network may not appear until the late 2030s, several years later than originally planned, has caused great consternation.
👉Read our article about the decades long quest for mass transit in Leeds:🔗zurl.co/d725c
👉Read our article about the decades long quest for mass transit in Leeds:🔗zurl.co/d725c
December 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🚊The announcement that the first lines in a new West Yorkshire mass transit network may not appear until the late 2030s, several years later than originally planned, has caused great consternation.
👉Read our article about the decades long quest for mass transit in Leeds:🔗zurl.co/d725c
👉Read our article about the decades long quest for mass transit in Leeds:🔗zurl.co/d725c
As a long-standing supporter of Mass Transit in Leeds & West Yorkshire, we are once again disappointed that the proposed initial routes, including routes linking Leeds to Bradford & St James Hospital to South Leeds, have been further delayed.
Statement🔗zurl.co/pGFFp
Statement🔗zurl.co/pGFFp
December 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
As a long-standing supporter of Mass Transit in Leeds & West Yorkshire, we are once again disappointed that the proposed initial routes, including routes linking Leeds to Bradford & St James Hospital to South Leeds, have been further delayed.
Statement🔗zurl.co/pGFFp
Statement🔗zurl.co/pGFFp
📰The second edition of our members' magazine, The Owl, has landed! Leeds Civic Trust members will receive their copy in the post before Christmas.
🔗Sign up to be a member and get the Winter 2025 edition here: zurl.co/lCVSc
🔗Sign up to be a member and get the Winter 2025 edition here: zurl.co/lCVSc
December 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
📰The second edition of our members' magazine, The Owl, has landed! Leeds Civic Trust members will receive their copy in the post before Christmas.
🔗Sign up to be a member and get the Winter 2025 edition here: zurl.co/lCVSc
🔗Sign up to be a member and get the Winter 2025 edition here: zurl.co/lCVSc
The speakers for our 2026 Future Leaders Lunches are:
Alison Lowe OBE @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Jamie Jones-Buchanan CEO @leedsrhinos.bsky.social
Tom Wright, Artistic Director at Leeds Playhouse
Mike Birch, Director of Mass Transit @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Join us: zurl.co/pCGtV
Alison Lowe OBE @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Jamie Jones-Buchanan CEO @leedsrhinos.bsky.social
Tom Wright, Artistic Director at Leeds Playhouse
Mike Birch, Director of Mass Transit @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Join us: zurl.co/pCGtV
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The speakers for our 2026 Future Leaders Lunches are:
Alison Lowe OBE @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Jamie Jones-Buchanan CEO @leedsrhinos.bsky.social
Tom Wright, Artistic Director at Leeds Playhouse
Mike Birch, Director of Mass Transit @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Join us: zurl.co/pCGtV
Alison Lowe OBE @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Jamie Jones-Buchanan CEO @leedsrhinos.bsky.social
Tom Wright, Artistic Director at Leeds Playhouse
Mike Birch, Director of Mass Transit @westyorkshireca.bsky.social
Join us: zurl.co/pCGtV
We want to know your thoughts about Leeds' heritage. By heritage we mean our buildings, landscapes and objects, stories, festivals, traditions and beliefs. This is your opportunity to say what you value and what about Leeds is important to you.
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We want to know your thoughts about Leeds' heritage. By heritage we mean our buildings, landscapes and objects, stories, festivals, traditions and beliefs. This is your opportunity to say what you value and what about Leeds is important to you.
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g
📸 Here's a beautiful photo of our office in the early 1970s when it was home to the Normandy Cafe. We were delighted to be visited by the family who ran the Normandy Cafe earlier this year. Our upstairs offices were once their family's flat above the cafe!
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📸 Here's a beautiful photo of our office in the early 1970s when it was home to the Normandy Cafe. We were delighted to be visited by the family who ran the Normandy Cafe earlier this year. Our upstairs offices were once their family's flat above the cafe!
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Having lunch by the Roger Stevens Building. If this doesn't win Leeds best building of the last 60 years, I'll eat my hat.
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Having lunch by the Roger Stevens Building. If this doesn't win Leeds best building of the last 60 years, I'll eat my hat.
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A grave memorial to Susannah Marlaw who was married to William Darby known as equestrian performer & circus proprietor Pablo Fanque. Fanque was the first recorded Black circus owner in Britain. His grave is the small stone at the bottom front of the photo. The grave memorial is in Leeds General /1
October 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A grave memorial to Susannah Marlaw who was married to William Darby known as equestrian performer & circus proprietor Pablo Fanque. Fanque was the first recorded Black circus owner in Britain. His grave is the small stone at the bottom front of the photo. The grave memorial is in Leeds General /1
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Thank you @leedscivictrust.bsky.social and everyone else involved for a very informative and interesting lunchtime today at the unveiling of the blue plaque of Dr Walter Hook at Leeds Minster.
We enjoyed it very much.
Thank you once again!
We enjoyed it very much.
Thank you once again!
October 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thank you @leedscivictrust.bsky.social and everyone else involved for a very informative and interesting lunchtime today at the unveiling of the blue plaque of Dr Walter Hook at Leeds Minster.
We enjoyed it very much.
Thank you once again!
We enjoyed it very much.
Thank you once again!
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Blue plaque’s up at Gipton Old Fire Station! With thanks to @leedscivictrust.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Blue plaque’s up at Gipton Old Fire Station! With thanks to @leedscivictrust.bsky.social
📣VOTE FOR LEEDS' BEST BUILDING OF THE LAST 60 YEARS📣
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
📣VOTE FOR LEEDS' BEST BUILDING OF THE LAST 60 YEARS📣
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4
We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10.
🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4