Leeds History plus UK Major Events: 1901 1936

House of Saxe Coburg

Edward VII 1901 - 10

1901

• Population 178,000

1901 - 4

• St. Anne's Roman Catholic Cathedral built.

1903

• City Square was laid out as older residents of the city will remember, with the Black Prince statue and the Nymph statues. Since then the square has changed its looks and traffic flows a few times,.

1904

• Leeds University starts merged from colleges and granted a Charter by King Edward VII
• Leeds Markets built
• Consecration of St Anne’s Cathedral.
• Leeds City the forerunners of Leeds United formed. at Elland Road.
• Marks and Spencer's opened premises in Cross Arcade. Besides the Kirkgate market stall Michael had opened a shop in Manchester in 1894. The Marks and Spencer's Empire of shops is underway.

1905

• First Cinema built

1906

• Ellmore's started manufacturing copper tubing in 1888 at Stourton, becomes Yorkshire Copper Works

1908

• New wing of the University opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

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1911

• Census. Population 450,000. In this respect Leeds reflected a thriving modern town but in reality, the effect of industrialisation and urbanisation was increasing overcrowding and squalor.

1912

• Red Hall purchased by Mr S Scofield

1914 - 18

• World War I.
  

1919

• Leeds United Football Club formed from Leeds City football club who were . expelled from the Football League after alleged illegal payments to players during the war years.

1921

• Leeds Coat of Arms received sanction of the College of Heralds.
• Montague Burton's is now the largest clothing factory in the world.

      

1922

• BBC broadcast from Leeds

1928

• The first permanent traffic lights in Britain installed in Park Row

1925

• St. James Hospital built
• Moot Hall demolished

1926

• Wallace Arnold's starts it's charabanc trips.
• Britain’s first permanent traffic lights installed in Park Row

1933

• Civic Hall built in Portland Crescent, opened by King George V and Queen Mary

1934

• Yorkshire Copper Works Leeds launches it's world famous Yorkshire fittingswith its integral solder ring.

Edward VIII 1936

1937

• The Cenotaph War Memorial, moved in front of the Art gallery in the Headrow, was first sighted in City Square, just after the Great War.

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