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Top 7 rankings from Leeds

Discover local opinions, rankings and perspectives from Leeds, Leeds.

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ARCHIVE / 07

History

Top 7 Times Leeds Was Surprisingly First

Leeds has a remarkable record of early railways, photography, transport technology, engineering and industry.

Leeds · UK

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1The Salamanca steam locomotive
2The Middleton Railway
3Washington Teasdale's photographic self-portrait
4Leeds' permanently automated traffic lights
5Leeds' early colour-printing industry
6Leeds' early steam-tram engineering
7The Blackburn Type D
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General

Top 7 Leeds Stories That Sound Too Strange to Be True

Seven Leeds stories that sound invented until you discover that the underlying history really is there.

Leeds · UK

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1Sheep on the roof of Temple Works
2A protective cauldron sealed inside a Leeds house
3Leeds' Victorian zoo and bear pit
4Louis Le Prince's disappearance
5The Blackburn Type D
6The accidental invention of Jelly Tots
7A Leeds-made Chippendale commode selling for millions
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BRIEFING / 07

Business

Top 7 Leeds Businesses That Started Much Smaller Than You Think

From a market stall to global businesses and engineering firms, these Leeds origins are smaller than their eventual reputations suggest.

Leeds · UK

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1Marks & Spencer
2Waddingtons
3Freeserve and Planet Online
4Tetley
5Burton
6Hunslet Engine Company
7Job Day & Sons
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ARCHIVE / 07

History

Top 7 Objects That Tell the Story of Leeds

Seven objects that reveal surprisingly different sides of Leeds' industrial, commercial, scientific and cultural history.

Leeds · UK

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1The Little Nipper mousetrap
2A Spirograph
3A Cluedo board
4A piece of Portland cement
5A Blackburn Type D component
6A Chippendale piece of furniture
7The Chapeltown cauldron
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ARCHIVE / 07

History

Top 7 People Whose Leeds Work Had Outsized Consequences

Seven people whose work in or through Leeds produced consequences far beyond the city.

Leeds · UK

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1Joseph Aspdin
2The Braggs
3Matthew Murray
4Michael Marks
5Anthony Pratt
6Denys Fisher
7James Henry Atkinson
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FRAME / 07

Film & TV

Top 7 Leeds Connections to the Invention of Film

Leeds was remarkably close to the birth of moving pictures, from Louis Le Prince's experiments to some of the earliest surviving film footage.

Leeds · UK

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1Roundhay Garden Scene
2Leeds Bridge
3Le Prince's single-lens camera
4Le Prince's 16-lens camera
5Wordsworth Donisthorpe
6Le Prince's Woodhouse Lane workshop
7Leeds Industrial Museum
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