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Leeds Museums & Galleries began life as the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, which opened in 1821. In 1921, the collection was purchased by Leeds Corporation, to continue as a municipal museum (Leeds City Museum). [7] In 1928, Abbey House Museum was purchased by the Leeds Corporation, as place to display social history.
In 2001, Leeds City Council bid for National Lottery cash, and in 2004, it was awarded £19.5 million, [4] so in 2005, the Leeds Mechanics' Institute building (designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and built 1865–1868) [5] began to be redesigned as Leeds City Museum, finally to reopen in 2008.
The modern city council was established in 1974, with the first elections being held in advance in 1973. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough Urban District, Horsforth Urban District, Otley Urban District, Garforth Urban District, Rothwell Urban ...
Morley town hall, one of the towns forming the borough Leeds Civic Hall on Millennium Square, meeting place of Leeds City Council. Leeds City Council is the local authority of the district. The council is composed of 99 councillors, three for each of the city's 33 wards. Elections are held three years out of four, on the first Thursday of May.
The house is a Grade I listed building, [1] one of nine Leeds Museums and Galleries sites [2] and part of the research group, Yorkshire Country House Partnership. [3] The estate lends its name to the Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council, in which it is situated, and lies to the east of the city, just south of Halton Moor, Halton, Whitkirk ...
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council. The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2] Leeds is represented by eight Members of Parliament.
Leeds Civic Hall is a municipal building located in the civic quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It replaced Leeds Town Hall as the administrative centre in 1933. [2] The Civic Hall houses Leeds City Council offices, council chamber and a banqueting hall, and is a Grade II* listed building. [3]
There are over 3,300 listed buildings in City of Leeds district (a wider area than Leeds, which includes several other towns such as Otley and Morley). [1] Lists of buildings in the upper two categories can be found at Grade I listed buildings in West Yorkshire (Leeds section) and Grade II* listed buildings in Leeds.