Author: Charles Goodall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Goodall's Illustrated Royal Handbook to Roundhay Park
Author: Charles Goodall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Leeds
Author: Susan Wrathmell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107364
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Table of contents: Leeds is a city with a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. Its prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the seventeenth-century church of St John, with its magnificent Jacobean woodcarving and furnishings, while the town's eighteenth-century expansion produced elegant Georgian parades and squares with homes for wealthy merchants. They now stand cheek-by-jowl with solid, proud warehouses and offices of the railway age in a wonderful variety of styles ranging from elegant neo-Grecian to Gothic, Moorish and Egyptian.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107364
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Table of contents: Leeds is a city with a rich commercial tradition and fine buildings to match. Its prosperity, founded on the wool trade, is reflected in the seventeenth-century church of St John, with its magnificent Jacobean woodcarving and furnishings, while the town's eighteenth-century expansion produced elegant Georgian parades and squares with homes for wealthy merchants. They now stand cheek-by-jowl with solid, proud warehouses and offices of the railway age in a wonderful variety of styles ranging from elegant neo-Grecian to Gothic, Moorish and Egyptian.
An Illustrated History of Roundhay Park
Author: Steven Burt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953974504
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953974504
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Greening of the City
Author: Carole A. O'Reilly
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317961919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features, but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteenth century, examining the fuller flowering of these valuable spaces in the early decades of the twentieth century. Encompassing themes such as social and political usage, parks as employers and the dangers posed by such freely accessible spaces, the book examines a range of parks in cities such as Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Leeds, Preston, Hull and Cardiff and challenges the prevailing myths about their meaning for their users. This study's timeframe spans almost 100 years of unprecedented social, cultural, political and economic changes and allows for the consideration of the expansion and commercialisation of leisure opportunities for the public. Urban parks played a significant role in this — the book places parks firmly in the context of the evolving city and examines the importance of green space to the urban citizen during this most fascinating of historical periods.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317961919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features, but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteenth century, examining the fuller flowering of these valuable spaces in the early decades of the twentieth century. Encompassing themes such as social and political usage, parks as employers and the dangers posed by such freely accessible spaces, the book examines a range of parks in cities such as Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Leeds, Preston, Hull and Cardiff and challenges the prevailing myths about their meaning for their users. This study's timeframe spans almost 100 years of unprecedented social, cultural, political and economic changes and allows for the consideration of the expansion and commercialisation of leisure opportunities for the public. Urban parks played a significant role in this — the book places parks firmly in the context of the evolving city and examines the importance of green space to the urban citizen during this most fascinating of historical periods.
The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape
Author: Anthony Silson
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783379014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is part of the new established 'Making of...' series by Wharncliffe Books. The book holds fascinating and beautiful illustrations that show the West Yorkshire landscape in its entirety. West Yorkshire is a land of great contrast and sudden change. Lonely upland moors rapidly pass into busy valley towns such as Bradford and Halifax. Serene farmland lies close to Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield. The cereal lands of the low gently sloping eastern area contrasts sharply with the grasslands of the higher Pennines. 'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is the story of how West Yorkshire's landscape has changed since the area emerged from under a sea some seventy million years ago. It reveals how, from prehistoric times onwards, people changed an initially wooded landscape into its contemporary pattern of moors, farms, villages and towns. Have a transitional journey through the landscape, from prehistoric times to the present day, as you read 'The Making of the West Yorkshire landscape'.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783379014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is part of the new established 'Making of...' series by Wharncliffe Books. The book holds fascinating and beautiful illustrations that show the West Yorkshire landscape in its entirety. West Yorkshire is a land of great contrast and sudden change. Lonely upland moors rapidly pass into busy valley towns such as Bradford and Halifax. Serene farmland lies close to Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield. The cereal lands of the low gently sloping eastern area contrasts sharply with the grasslands of the higher Pennines. 'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is the story of how West Yorkshire's landscape has changed since the area emerged from under a sea some seventy million years ago. It reveals how, from prehistoric times onwards, people changed an initially wooded landscape into its contemporary pattern of moors, farms, villages and towns. Have a transitional journey through the landscape, from prehistoric times to the present day, as you read 'The Making of the West Yorkshire landscape'.
Great British Parks
Author: Paul Rabbitts
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144565637X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Celebrating the creation and restoration of some of Britain's most diverse and fascinating historic parks
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144565637X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Celebrating the creation and restoration of some of Britain's most diverse and fascinating historic parks
Popular Music in Leeds
Author: Brett Lashua
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1789388074
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment. The city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks, post- punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’ popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and across wider global contexts – of the social and historical significance of music as mass media; music and migration; music, racialisation and social equity; industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation, while concomitantly tracing arguments about “heritagising” popular music within discussions about music’s “place” in museums and in the urban economy, this book contributes to debates about why music matters, has mattered, and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond.
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1789388074
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This first academic collection dedicated to popular music in Leeds - developed from the work of interdisciplinary scholars, drawn from a major public museum exhibition “Sounds of Our City” and built upon contemporary research. Leeds has rich musical histories and heritage, a long tradition of vibrant music venues, nightclubs, dance halls, pubs and other sites of musical entertainment. The city has spawned crooners, folk singers, punks, post- punks, Goths, DJs, popstars, rappers and indie rockers, yet – with a few exceptions - Leeds has not been studied for its scenes in ways that other UK cities have. In ways that the chapters explore, Leeds’ popular music exemplifies and informs understandings of broader cultural and urban changes – both in Britain and across wider global contexts – of the social and historical significance of music as mass media; music and migration; music, racialisation and social equity; industrial decline, de-industrialisation, neoliberalism and the rise of the 24-hour city. Charting moments of stark musical politicisation and de-politicisation, while concomitantly tracing arguments about “heritagising” popular music within discussions about music’s “place” in museums and in the urban economy, this book contributes to debates about why music matters, has mattered, and continues to matter in Leeds, and beyond.
The Publications of the Thoresby Society
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeds (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The History of 100 Years of Life of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
Author: Edwin Kitson Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Telegraphic Journal and Monthly Illustrated Review of Electrical Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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