In the May half term we're inviting Under 16s to join us at Leeds Central Library to create artwork to submit to our Leeds400 Art Competition. 📆Tuesday 26 May ⏰14:00-16:00 🎫Pay as you can 🔗zurl.co/LNIPD

Good to see today's print edition of the @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk celebrating the work of Kevin Grady and @leedscivictrust.bsky.social. #LeedsHistory

One month to go until the deadline for our Leeds400 Art Competition! There are two categories: 🎨 The under 16s category is themed 'How would you like Leeds to be in 400 years?' 🎨 The 16s and over category is themed 'Prospects of Leeds' 👉Read more on our website: zurl.co/kaeGU #leeds400

📣We’re hiring! We're looking for a Volunteer & Engagement Coordinator to join the team at Leeds Civic Trust. ⏰Full-time (35 hours) 💰 £30,000–£32,500 📆Deadline: 5pm, 1st June 2026 🔗 Find out more and apply here zurl.co/Xwymp

📣Hark! 🦉 As part of the Leeds400 celebrations, Leeds Civic Trust is pleased to announce four historical theatrical walks delivered in partnership with Jude Kershaw of Run of the Mill History. Join a time travelling resident on these walks 🔗zurl.co/6CI3q

📣Leeds Civic Trust is pleased to share our vision for new trams for Leeds. Our proposal is flying trams, powered by thousands of tiny birds. This ensures mass transit is delivered sustainably and would provide a 24 hour service. 🔗zurl.co/ye2yx

We're proud to announce an art competition to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Leeds Charter. There are 2 categories: under 16s & people aged 16+. 6 entries from each category will be exhibited at Leeds Corn Exchange in July. 🔗Details zurl.co/vIyut

📣You asked, we delivered! 💻 You can now view two of our 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures online! 🔗zurl.co/cwkGr #leeds400

Leeds Civic Trust members get our magazine, The Owl, twice a year, posted to their home address. The Owl contains cutting-edge commentary on the latest developments in Leeds. Sign up to be a Leeds Civic Trust member and stay in the loop with The Owl 🔗zurl.co/LJ4cj

🚶Come on our guided walk - The Victorian Circuses of Leeds! This guided walk, led by Dr Steve Ward, a social historian and specialist in circus history, visits the sites of Victorian circuses in Leeds. 🔗zurl.co/xxXuw

She wrote 40 novels, her books were translated into 40 different languages and sold more than 90 million copies. Last week @leedscivictrust.bsky.social unveiled a plaque at Armley Library, one of her favourite haunts as a child.

Magic Arzonic Soap anyone? Claims to clean grease, paint, clothes and babies and even cure scurvy. I suspect it just scoured several layers of skin. A gem found inside a scrap album donated to @leedsmuseums.bsky.social in 1961. Leeds c1885. @leedscivictrust.bsky.social @thackraymuseum.bsky.social

🎊Our 207th blue plaque for Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE has been installed at Armley Library! 📺 Don't miss the first episode of the new Channel 4 series 'A Woman of Substance', based on Barbara's internationally bestselling novel, tonight!

Here's our outgoing Heritage and Culture Panel Chair Lucy Moore to tell you why you, (yes, you! 🫵) should apply to be part of the panel, who decide which blue plaque applications are successful. ⏰Deadline - 16 March 5pm 👉 Find out more and apply here zurl.co/BbXrU

🚶Come on our guided walk! 🏙️We will explore some of the many photographic opportunities in an area of Leeds where there have been huge changes in recent years, but where heritage sits side by side with modern development. 📆16 April 11:30 🔗 zurl.co/xT8a6

🚶Come on our guided walk - The Port of Leeds! 🌊Explore the Leeds waterfront to find out how the city’s industrial and trading successes were made possible, even before the age of the train, by waterway connections to the east and west coasts. 🔗 zurl.co/9Xmcn

📣We're recruiting volunteers to join our Heritage and Culture Panel, who decide which blue plaque nominations are approved. We're recruiting new panel members and a new Chair. 👉Find out more about the role & apply here zurl.co/TWNPO

🎉Our guided walks season is back for 2026! This year we're offering 19 guided walks, our biggest season ever! 🦽We have improved our accessibility information are offering even more walks on evenings and weekends and more repeats of walks. 👉Get your tickets now! 🔗 zurl.co/rFq0Q

Here's Dr Kevin Grady to tell you about his second lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Series, ‘The Ingenious Mr Thoresby’. 🦉Leeds in Your Lunch Hour lectures are all FREE! No booking is required, just turn up! 👉13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster. 🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz

Here's Dr Kevin Grady to tell you about his first lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Series, '1626 and All That'. 🦉The lectures are at 13:00, every Wednesday in February at Leeds Minster. Free & open to all. 🔗 zurl.co/9u0Dz

Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026! 🦉 Lecture 4 - A City Transformed 1965-2025’: Leeds Civic Trust and 60 Years of Change in Leeds 👉 Wednesday 25 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster 🔗 zurl.co/WavUG

Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026! 🦉Lecture 3 - Dr Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds 1837 -1859: The Greatest Parish Priest of the Nineteenth Century 👉 Wednesday 18 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster 🔗 zurl.co/WavUG

🎤Leeds in Your Lunch Hour Lectures 2026! 🦉 Lecture 2, Wednesday 11 February: The Ingenious Mr Thoresby: First Historian of Leeds 1658-1725 👉 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. 🔗zurl.co/KQ8gL

Our first lecture in the 2026 Leeds in Your Lunch Hour series is: 1626 and All That: The first Municipal Charter and 400 years of municipal and metropolitan government in Leeds 👉 Wednesday 4 February, 13:00-13:45. Leeds Minster. Free. 🔗 zurl.co/WavUG

🎤Our annual series of FREE lunchtime lectures returns for its 19th year! As part of the Leeds 400 celebrations, the lectures focus on anniversaries marking the history Leeds. 📍 Leeds Minster. Every Wednesday in February. 13:00 🔗zurl.co/WavUG #leeds400

👉Come to our event 'Mills Transformed: Images and Stories of Industrial Mill Regeneration in the North of England'. A Q&A and photographic presentation from Neil Horsley, author of 'Mills Transformed', about mill regeneration. 📆Tuesday 13 Jan. 15:00 🔗 zurl.co/sgSeG

🎅Merry Christmas from Leeds Civic Trust! 🎄 🦉 A warm welcome to everyone who has been gifted a Leeds Civic Trust membership for Christmas! We're looking forward to having you with us in 2026 💙

😬 Need a last minute Christmas gift? Give the gift of a Leeds Civic Trust membership! Gift membership is the perfect gift for any Loiner (a person who lives in Leeds!) Buy your gift membership today and your gift receiver will get their welcome pack in the post in the new year. 👉zurl.co/V0HoJ

💤The Leeds Civic Trust office is now closed until Monday 5 January for Christmas and New Year. 🎄We hope you have a wonderful Christmas, however you celebrate. See you in 2026!

Have just nipped into the beautiful Leeds Central Library to collect my Chapel Allerton history book, written by the very affable Steven Burt and edited by @leedstours.bsky.social . It's a hefty tome @leedscivictrust.bsky.social #chapelallerton #leeds #localhistory #publiclibraries

🔵 Our 206th blue plaque for Walter Farquhar Hook has now been affixed to the exterior of Leeds Minster for all to see. 🔗Read more about Walter Farquhar Hook here: zurl.co/zSQHN

🚊The announcement that the first lines in a new West Yorkshire mass transit network may not appear until the late 2030s, several years later than originally planned, has caused great consternation. 👉Read our article about the decades long quest for mass transit in Leeds:🔗zurl.co/d725c

As a long-standing supporter of Mass Transit in Leeds & West Yorkshire, we are once again disappointed that the proposed initial routes, including routes linking Leeds to Bradford & St James Hospital to South Leeds, have been further delayed. Statement🔗zurl.co/pGFFp

📰The second edition of our members' magazine, The Owl, has landed! Leeds Civic Trust members will receive their copy in the post before Christmas. 🔗Sign up to be a member and get the Winter 2025 edition here: zurl.co/lCVSc

The speakers for our 2026 Future Leaders Lunches are: Alison Lowe OBE @westyorkshireca.bsky.social Jamie Jones-Buchanan CEO @leedsrhinos.bsky.social Tom Wright, Artistic Director at Leeds Playhouse Mike Birch, Director of Mass Transit @westyorkshireca.bsky.social Join us: zurl.co/pCGtV

We want to know your thoughts about Leeds' heritage. By heritage we mean our buildings, landscapes and objects, stories, festivals, traditions and beliefs. This is your opportunity to say what you value and what about Leeds is important to you. Take the 6 minute survey: zurl.co/qQY3g

📸 Here's a beautiful photo of our office in the early 1970s when it was home to the Normandy Cafe. We were delighted to be visited by the family who ran the Normandy Cafe earlier this year. Our upstairs offices were once their family's flat above the cafe!

Having lunch by the Roger Stevens Building. If this doesn't win Leeds best building of the last 60 years, I'll eat my hat.

A grave memorial to Susannah Marlaw who was married to William Darby known as equestrian performer & circus proprietor Pablo Fanque. Fanque was the first recorded Black circus owner in Britain. His grave is the small stone at the bottom front of the photo. The grave memorial is in Leeds General /1

Thank you @leedscivictrust.bsky.social and everyone else involved for a very informative and interesting lunchtime today at the unveiling of the blue plaque of Dr Walter Hook at Leeds Minster. We enjoyed it very much. Thank you once again!

Blue plaque’s up at Gipton Old Fire Station! With thanks to @leedscivictrust.bsky.social

📣VOTE FOR LEEDS' BEST BUILDING OF THE LAST 60 YEARS📣 We asked the public to nominate their favourite Leeds building of last 60 years for the People's Choice Award at the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social . Vote for your favourite from the top 10. 🔗 zurl.co/Uy2y4

📣5 days left to nominate a building for the 2025 @leedsarcawards.bsky.social People's Choice Award! Nominate your favourite building in Leeds built in the last 60 years for this special prize. 🔗zurl.co/LRGBY

Thanks to @leedscivictrust.bsky.social and #HeritageOpenDays managed an interesting talk and partial tour of recently trestored Ledston Hall, #Yorkshire www.countrylife.co.uk/property/led...

A wonderful tour around the Leeds Central Library as part of the @leedscivictrust.bsky.social Heritage Open Days. Lovely to see some of the areas that the public are not normally allowed access to and to also learn so much history about this beautiful building #Leeds #Heritage #Yorkshire #Library

We're getting super-excited for our Heritage Open Day event next weekend, supported by @leedscivictrust.bsky.social. We'll have an interactive #minbeast trail plus loads of #familyfriendly activities including building #habitathouses from recycled materials, seed ball making and #naturegarden design

⏰One week until Heritage Open Days 2025! 🎉The festival runs 12-21 September and sees 299 FREE events take place in Leeds. 🔗You can find a list of all the Leeds events on our website, along with our digital Heritage Open Days booklet: zurl.co/AhqTF

🏆The @leedsarcawards.bsky.social are back for 2025! 🎨We’re hosting an exhibition revealing the shortlisted entries for each category at Leeds Corn Exchange , 12 – 19 September. 👉Nominate your favourite building constructed in Leeds between 1965 and 2025 for our People’s Choice Award.

There are so many quirky landmarks hidden away in the suburbs of Leeds, like this beautiful 1842 aqueduct built to carry drinking water from Eccup Reservoir. Taken with an Olympus Pen EE3 and Ilford XP2. #leeds @leedscivictrust.bsky.social #35mmfilm #realphotography @ilfordphoto.com

📣More Heritage Open Days booklets have been dropped off to all Leeds Libraries, museums and galleries! 🔗 zurl.co/uKecK