Great Children’s play areas in Leeds
Choosing the right play area for your children can be a difficult task, especially when Leeds has such a large variety on offer!
However, parenting means responsibility and we need to consider all the pros and cons before we decide which play area suits our requirements:
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Thwaite Mills Watermill Museum
Located on an ‘island’ in Stourton, just south of the city of Leeds, the Thwaite Mills Watermill Museum sits between the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation.
Thwaite Mills is one of the best last remaining examples in Britain of a water-powered mill.
Visitors will enjoy a unique opportunity to see water-powered industry of a bygone time up close; a working piece of history that’s still in use as it was centuries ago.
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Leeds Art Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery is a celebrated art gallery popular across the UK, referred to in The Times as ’Probably the best collection of the twentieth century British art outside London’.
The Gallery carries a large and diverse collection of art ranging from printwork and classical paintings to photography, sculptures and contemporary art.
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Leeds City Museum
Located in the heart of the city centre, the Leeds City Museum offers an array of attractions sure to delight visitors of all ages.
There are six galleries within the Museum with permanent exhibitions, as well as temporary exhibitions which change throughout the year.
Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds Metropolitan University is a separate university to Leeds University and is specifically geared towards business qualifications.
Although Leeds Metropolitan is not as old as many other well known universities around the United Kingdom, it is a leader in its field as a business university, something that the Metropolitan University is proud of.
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Born in August 1961 with brittle bone disease, Nicky Chapman went on to study maths and business management at Trinity and All Saints College in Leeds . After her work as finance clerk with Leeds City Council and as chairwoman of the Leeds Centre for … Baroness Chapman of Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire was the first person with a congenital disability to be appointed a life peer. She sat as a cross-bencher. She was nominated for a peerage by the Habinteg Housing …
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