City of Leeds Training College. Information for Women Students
- GB 2830 BPL/22/6/10
- Stuk
- 1911 - 1912
Part of Beckett Park Library Collection
City of Leeds Training College
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City of Leeds Training College. Information for Women Students
Part of Beckett Park Library Collection
City of Leeds Training College
Information for Men Students Session 1911-12
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Graham, James
Copper Photographic Plate. City of Leeds Training College, Bronte Hall ca. 1912.
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City of Leeds Training College. Details of Administration and Finance, dated October 1912.
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Walter Parsons portrait photograph
Part of Iain Poole Donation
Walter Parsons was the first Principal of the City of Leeds Training College from its inception in 1907 until 1918.
Edward Harrison portrait photograph
Part of Iain Poole Donation
Edward Harrison was born in 1881 at Burnley, Lancashire son of John and Ann Harrison, his father was a Tallow Chandler. He was trained at Borough Road Training College in Isleworth, Middlesex later becoming Mathematics teacher at the City of Leeds Training College. He was Head of Buckingham House a mens hostel of the teacher training college in the years immediately prior to the opening of the college at Beckett Park, Thomas Halliwell was a student based at Buckingham House. Harrison was killed in action on 28 April 1917 he was Second Lieutenant in the 158th Siege Battalion, Royal Garrison Artillery. He is buried in the Mindel Trench British Cemetery, St.Laurent-Blangy in France.
Holophane Illumination, December 1912
Part of Iain Poole Donation
Copper photographic plate - Beckett Park aerial.
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City of Leeds Training College
City of Leeds Training College 1910-12 Harriers 1912
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Set of Training College postcards
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A set of Postcards collected by Keith Rowntree mainly date from the early years of the Leeds Training College. Some describe the buildings as new. Two refer to the buildings as the Military Hospital which would date them to between 1914-18 although the hospital had a presence on site until 1927. Publishers of the postcards include local Leeds firms of H. Burniston, Pickard and Sons and Holland & Co..
Rowntree, Keith