The following is a list of plaques placed within the City of Leeds by Leeds Civic Trust to celebrate people or historic sites.
The main ones are cast aluminium 18 inches in diameter with lettering in relief and can be repainted when badly worn. Where space is limited a 14-inch one is used with fewer words. In the case of Whitkirk Manor House (155) a rectangular one was used to get more words in the restricted width. Four (60, 62, 63, 72) are millennium plaques of 20 inches with gold letters and edging.
They are numbered according to the books given in the bibliography up to 180. 181 onwards are numbered according to the date of erection. There is one which is not numbered and green instead of blue. Some are photographed before mounting, others in situ.
There are also printed polymer ones celebrating the LGBT history in Leeds, referred to as Rainbow plaques.[1]
| Number | Image | Title | Location / Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burley Bar Stone | Entrance to Leeds Building Society, 105 Albion Street, LS1 5AS | ||
| 2 | Louis Le Prince | South-east corner of Leeds Bridge LS10 1NB | ||
| 3 | Louis Le Prince | Broadcasting Place LS2 9EN | ||
| 4 | Temple Mill | LS11 9YJ | ||
| 5 | 18 Park Place | LS1 2SP | ||
| 6 | The Victoria Hotel | 23 Great George St, LS1 3DL | ||
| 7 | The Assembly Rooms | Behind the Corn Exchange LS2 7DE | ||
| 8 | Kemplay's Academy | 51 New Briggate LS2 9JE | ||
| 9 | Brodrick's Buildings | 43-51 Cookridge Street LS2 3AW | ||
| 10 | The West Bar | 34-38 Boar Lane LS1 5HL | ||
| 11 | Park Square | 45 Park Square LS1 2NP | ||
| 12 | Leeds Manor House | Scarborough Hotel, Bishopsgate Street LS1 5DY | ||
| 13 | St Paul's House | Park Square, LS1 2ND | ||
| 14 | Leeds Charity School | Mark Lane, LS2 8JA | ||
| 15 | Hotel Metropole | King Street, LS1 2HQ | ||
| 16 | Yorkshire Penny Bank | Infirmary Street, LS1 2JP | ||
| 17 | William Hey's House | 1 Albion Place, LS1 6JL | ||
| 18 | Leeds Infirmary | Great George Street, LS1 3EX | ||
| 19 | Leeds School of Medicine | Thoresby Place, LS2 9NL | ||
| 20 | Queens Court | Lower Briggate, LS1 6YL | ||
| 21 | Leeds & Liverpool Canal Warehouse | 1 Canal Wharf, Water Lane LS11 5BB | ||
| 22 | Bank of England | 1 South Parade, LS1 5QL | ||
| 23 | A. S. L. E. & F. | The Commercial Inn, Sweet Street, LS11 9TE, corner with corner of Marshall Street (not visible July 2019) | ||
| 24 | The Great Synagogue | Belgrave Street, LS2 8DD | ||
| 25 | Mill Hill Chapel and Joseph Priestley | City Square, LS1 5DQ | ||
| 26 | The Church Institute | 9 Albion Place, LS1 6JL | ||
| 27 | Coloured Cloth Hall | Infirmary Street, LS2 2HT | ||
| 28 | Fairbairn House | 71 Clarendon Road, LS2 9PJ | ||
| 29 | Atkinson Grimshaw | 56 Cliff Road, LS6 2EZ | ||
| 30 | John Harrison | 23 Great George St, LS1 3DL | ||
| 31 | White Cloth Hall | Behind the Corn Exchange, Crown Street, LS1 7RB | ||
| 32 | Joshua Tetley | Gatepost, Hunslet Road, LS10 1JQ | ||
| 33 | Ralph Thoresby, FRS | 15 Kirkgate, LS1 6BY | ||
| 34 | Arthur Ransome | 6 Ash Grove, LS6 1AY | ||
| 35 | Aire & Calder Navigation | Riverside Court, Call Lane, LS1 7BU | ||
| 36 | North-Eastern Railway Viaduct | Swinegate, LS1 4AG | ||
| 37 | Tower Works | Globe Road, LS11 5QU | ||
| 38 | Samuel Smiles | Leeds City Museum, Cookridge Street, LS2 3AD | ||
| 39 | Fletland Mills | 42 The Calls, LS2 7EW | ||
| 40 | Joseph Aspdin | Packhorse Yard off Briggate, LS1 6AT | ||
| 41 | Yorkshire Ladies' Council of Education | 18 Blenheim Terrace, LS2 9AR | ||
| 42 | St Aidan's Church | Roundhay Road LS8 5QD | ||
| 43 | East Bar | Leeds Parish Church boundary wall, Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ (Small plaque: 14 inches) | ||
| 44 | Sir Leonard Hutton (Cricketer) | 5 Fulneck, Pudsey, LS28 8NT | ||
| 45 | Leeds College of Art | Vernon Street, LS2 9AQ | ||
| 46 | First Leeds Synagogue | Merrion Centre, LS2 8NG | ||
| 47 | The City Varieties | Swan Street, LS2 9AQ | ||
| 48 | Central Higher Grade School | 2 Great George Street, LS2 8BA | ||
| 49 | Leeds Union Workhouse | Thackray Medical Museum, Beckett Street, LS2 7LN | ||
| 50 | Oakwood Clock | Corner of Roundhay Road and Princes Avenue, LS8 2HU | ||
| 51 | Golden Acre Park | Cafe in the park, Otley Road, LS16 8BQ | ||
| 52 | Leeds Burial Ground | Beckett Street, LS9 7LS | ||
| 53 | Leeds School Board | Calverly Street, LS1 3ED | ||
| 54 | Moortown Golf Club | Harrogate Road, LS11 7DB | ||
| 55 | Bank Mills | Rose Wharf, East Street, LS9 8EE | ||
| 56 | Queen's Arcade | Briggate, LS1 6LF | ||
| 57 | Meanwood Tannery | Millpond Road, LS6 4ED | ||
| 58 | Burmantofts Pottery | |||
| 59 | Potternewton Mansion | Harehills Lane, LS9 7ED (plaque in poor condition) | ||
| 60 | Victoria Quarter | Between Briggate and Vicar Lane, LS1 6BE (Millennium plaque: 20 inches) | ||
| 61 | William Congreve | Bardsey Grange, Cornmill Lane, LS17 9EQ | ||
| 62 | no image yet | Leeds Town Hall | Calverley Street entrance, LS1 3AD (Millennium plaque: 20 inches) | |
| 63 | Kirkgate Market | (former Butchers' Row) LS2 7HY (Millennium plaque: 20 inches) | ||
| 64 | Montague Burton | Hudson Road, LS9 7DN | ||
| 65 | Kirkstall Brewery | Broad Road, LS5 3RX | ||
| 66 | Cliff Tannery | Sugarwell Court, Meanwood Road, LS7 2DZ | ||
| 67 | The Philosophical Hall | 33 Park Row, LS1 1LD | ||
| 68 | Smithfield Ironworks | 90-94 North Street, LS2 7PN | ||
| 69 | The Grange | Beckett Park, LS6 3QX | ||
| 70 | Permanent House | Brown's Restaurant, The Light, The Headrow, LS1 8EQ | ||
| 71 | Ellen Heaton | 6 Woodhouse Square, LS3 1AD | ||
| 72 | Leeds Civic Hall | Millennium Square, LS1 iJR (Millennium plaque: 20 inches) | ||
| 73 | E. J. Arnold & Son | 3 Lower Briggate, LS1 4AF | ||
| 74 | Leeds Grammar School | Moorland Road, LS6 1AN | ||
| 75 | John Deakin Heaton | 21 Clarendon Road, LS2 9NZ | ||
| 76 | Sir Berkeley Moynihan | 33 Park Square, LS1 3PF | ||
| 77 | Samuel Ledgard | Golden Valley (former Nelson Inn), Armley Road, LS12 2LS | ||
| 78 | Frank Kidson | 5 Hamilton Avenue, LS7 4EG | ||
| 79 | Mann's Patent Steam Cart & Wagon Company Ltd | Pepper Road, LS10 2RU | ||
| 80 | Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company | Pepper Road, LS10 2RU | ||
| 81 | Newton House | 54 Spencer Place, LS7 4BR | ||
| 82 | The Hunslet Engine Company | 125 Jack Lane, LS10 1BJ | ||
| 83 | Dewhirst's and Marks & Spencer | Harper Street, LS2 7EA | ||
| 84 | Bardon Hill Stables | Weetwood Lane, LS16 5TX | ||
| 85 | Cookridge Hall | Cookridge Lane, LS16 7NL | ||
| 86 | Sir John Barran, MP | Joseph's Well, Hanover Walk, LS3 1AB | ||
| 87 | The Middleton Railway | Moor Road Station, LS10 2JQ | ||
| 88 | Denison Hall | Hanover Square, LS3 1BW | ||
| 89 | Olympia Works and Robert Blackburn | Tesco Supermarket, 361 Roundhay Road, LS8 4BU | ||
| 90 | Leeds and County Liberal Club | Quebecs Hotel, Quebec Street, LS1 2HA | ||
| 91 | The Leeds Club | 3 Albion Place, LS1 6JL | ||
| 92 | Mount St Mary's Convent, Orphanage & School | Ellerby Road, LS9 8LA | ||
| 93 | Headingley Hall | 5 Shire Oak Road, LS6 2DD | ||
| 94 | Canal Gardens | Princes Avenue, LS8 2ER | ||
| 95 | Dr Alistir MacKenzie | The Corner House Club, 266 Lidgett Lane, LS17 6Q | ||
| 96 | Richard Oastler | St Peter's Square, LS9 2AH | ||
| 97 | John Smeaton, FRS | Towpath wall, Leeds Lock, by Royal Armouries, LS10 1LT | ||
| 98 | Sir Clifford Allbutt | Lyddon Hall, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT | ||
| 99 | Leeds General Cemetery | Gatehouse to St George's Field, off Clarendon Road, LS2 9JT | ||
| 100 | Whitelock's Ale House | Turks Head Yard, off Briggate, LS1 6HB | ||
| 101 | Richard Bentley, FRS DD | Bentley Square, LS26 8JH | ||
| 102 | Live at Leeds | University of Leeds Refectory, LS2 9JZ | ||
| 103 | The Leeds Rifles | Carlton Barracks, Carlton Green Lane, LS7 1HE | ||
| 104 | Leeds Co-operative Society | Gatepost to Leodis Court, LS11 5JJ | ||
| 105 | Leonora Cohen JP OBE | 2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road, LS2 9NY | ||
| 106 | J & H McLaren's England Engine Works | 100 Jack Lane, LS10 1BN | ||
| 107 | The Leeds Library | 18 Commercial Street, LS1 6AL | ||
| 108 | William Turton | 64 The Calls, LS2 7EF | ||
| 109 | Bramley Rugby Football League Football Club | The Barley Mow Inn, Town Street, LS13 3EW | ||
| 110 | Adelaide Neilson | Leeds Playhouse side entrance, LS2 7UP | ||
| 111 | BBC Radio in Leeds | Foyer, BBC Broadcasting Centre, 2 St Peter's Square, LS9 8AH | ||
| 112 | Stocks Hill, Bramley | By pump, Town Street, LS13 3NA | ||
| 113 | Albert Goldthorpe | John Charles Centre for Sport, Middleton Grove, LS11 5JD | ||
| 114 | Elmete Hall | Elmete Lane, LS8 2LJ | ||
| 115 | Gledhow Hall | Boundary wall, junction of Gledhow Lane and Gledhow Wood Road, LS8 2LJ | ||
| 116 | The Yorkshire College | Textile Building, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT | ||
| 117 | Lady Betty Hastings | Entrance to Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, LS1 6HW | ||
| 118 | Wortley Grammar School | 69 Lower Wortley Road, LS12 4SL | ||
| 119 | Hedley Verity | 4 Welton Grove, LS6 1ES | ||
| 120 | Isabella Ford | Adel Grange Residential Home, Adel Grange Close, LS16 8HX | ||
| 121 | The Mansion | Mansion Lane, LS8 2HH | ||
| 122 | Rawdon College | Woodlands Drive, LS19 6JZ | ||
| 123 | Carlton Hill Friends Meeting House | Old Broadcasting House, 160b Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9EN | ||
| 124 | William Astbury | 189 Kirkstall Lane, LS8 3EJ | ||
| 125 | The Crucible of Darts | Leeds Irish Centre, York Road, LS9 9NT | ||
| 126 | The Leeds Oddfellows | 2 Queen Square, LS2 8AF | ||
| 127 | Sir Charles Wilson MP | Northern School of Contemporary Dance, 98 Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH | ||
| 128 | Lady Sue Ryder of Warsaw | Scarcroft Grange, Wetherby Road, LS14 3HJ | ||
| 129 | Ivy Benson | 59 Cemetery Road, Beeston LS11 | ||
| 130 | Central Station Hoist | Wellington Place, LS1 4AJ | ||
| 131 | Gertrude Maretta Paul | Bracken Edge Primary School, Newton Road, LS7 4HE | ||
| 132 | Salem Chapel | rear of chapel, 11-15 Hunslet Road, LS10 1JW | ||
| 133 | The Revd Charles Jenkinson | St John & St Barnabas Church, Belle Isle Road, LS10 3DN | ||
| 134 | House of Faith | 21 Leopold Street, LS7 4DA | ||
| 135 | The Leeds Arts Club | 8 Blenheim Terrace, LS2 9HZ | ||
| 136 | The Majestic Cinema | City Square, LS1 1PJ | ||
| 137 | Cottage Road Cinema | Cottage Road, LS6 4DD | ||
| 138 | J. R. R. Tolkien CBE | 2 Darnley Road, LS16 5JF | ||
| 139 | The New Synagogue | Northern School of Contemporary Dance, LS7 4BH | ||
| 140 | The Railway Roundhouse | Wellington Road, LS12 1DR | ||
| 141 | The ORT Technical Engineering School | New Horizons Community School, Newton Hill Road, LS7 4JE | ||
| 142 | Leeds Trades Club | Leeds Media Centre, 21 Savile Mount, LS7 3HZ | ||
| 143 | Leeds Corn Exchange | Call Lane, LS1 7BR | ||
| 144 | Leeds Grand Theatre & Opera House | 46 New Briggate, LS1 6NZ | ||
| 145 | Leeds Methodist Pioneers | Leeds Playhouse, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP | ||
| 146 | Headingley Rugby Ground | Headingley Lane, LS16 5PS | ||
| 147 | Weetwood Hall | Otley Road, LS16 5PS | ||
| 148 | Gipton Board School | Shine, Harehills Road, LS8 5HS | ||
| 149 | Beryl Burton OBE | Beryl Burton Gardens, Queen Street, LS27 9BU | ||
| 150 | Crown Point Printing Works | Leeds City College Printworks, Hunslet Road, LS10 1JY | ||
| 151 | John Fowler | Costco Car park, Leathley Road, LS10 1BG | ||
| 152 | Barnbow Royal Ordnance Factory | Former factory gates, Austhorpe Road, LS15 1 BF | ||
| 153 | Mary Gawthorpe | 9 Warrel's Mount, LS13 3NU | ||
| 154 | The South Bar | South end of Leeds Bridge, LS10 1NB | ||
| 155 | Whitkirk Manor House | Colton Road, LS15 9AA | ||
| 156 | Leeds Civic Trust | 17-19 Wharf Street, LS2 7EQ | ||
| 157 | Chapel Allerton Hall | Gledhow Lane, LS7 4NP | ||
| 158 | Thomas Edward Harvey | 5 Grosvenor Terrace, LS6 2DY | ||
| 159 | Hepper House | 174 East Parade, LS1 2BH | ||
| 160 | The New Penny | 57-59 Call Lane, LS1 2BH | ||
| 161 | Herbert Sutcliffe & Sir Leonard Hutton | Pudsey St Lawrence Cricket Ground, Tofts Road, LS28 7SQ | ||
| 162 | St Michael's College | The Court, Clarendon Quarter, St John's Road, LS3 1EX | ||
| 163 | Kenneth Armitage | Mandela Gardens, Millennium Square, LS2 3AD | ||
| 164 | North Bar | The Old Red Bus Station, 101 Vicar Lane, LS2 7NL | ||
| 165 | Benjamin Gott | Gotts Park Golf Club, LS12 2QX | ||
| 166 | William Gascoigne | Patel Store, Town Street, LS10 3PN | ||
| 167 | Agnes Logan Stewart | Bridge Community Church, Rider Street, LS9 7BQ | ||
| 168 | Maurice Ellis FRSC | Leeds General Infirmary, Gatepost of main George Street entrance, LS1 3EX | ||
| 169 | Marshall's Mill | Marshall Street, LS11 9YJ | ||
| 170 | Titus Salt | 91 Queen Street, L27 8EF | ||
| 171 | Charles Barker Howdill | 14 Hanover Square, LS3 1AP | ||
| 172 | Alice Bacon MP | Inside Leeds Corn Exchange, Call Lane, LS1 7BR | ||
| 173 | Albert Johanneson | Entrance to East Stand, LS11 OES | ||
| 174 | Catherine Mawer | Starbucks, 48 Albion Street, LS1 6AB | ||
| 175 | The Mawer Group | 30 Park Place, LS1 2SP | ||
| 176 | Holbeck Working Men's Club | HWMC, Jenkin's Lawn, LS11 9QX | ||
| 177 | R. A. H. Livett OBE | 73 Wykebeck Valley Road, LS9 6PB (not as stated in "Blue Plaques of Leeds The Next Collection) | ||
| 178 | Morley Town Hall | Queen Street, LS27 9DY | ||
| 179 | Keith Waterhouse | Hunslet Library, Waterloo Street, LS10 2NS | ||
| 180 | Jim Bullock OBE | Bowers Row Chapel, Bowers Row, LS26 8DF | ||
| 181 | Dr Edith Mary Pechey | 8 Park Square, LS2 1LH 26 July 2021[2] | ||
| 182 | Percy "Don" Robins | St. George's Crypt LS1 3BR 10 September 2021 | ||
| 183 | Selig Brodetsky | 3 Grosvenor Road LS6 2DZ 10 October 2021[3] | ||
| 184 | Fanny Passavant | Great Hall, University of Leeds 30 November 2021[4] | ||
| 185 | Esther Simpson OBE | Esther Simpson Building Leeds University 8 March 2022[5] | ||
| 186 | David Oluwale | Leeds Bridge 25 April 2022, removed and missing the same evening,[6] replaced 23 October 2022[7] |
| Number | Image | Title | Location / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Grove | The Grove Inn, Back Row, Leeds | |
| 2 | Charlie's Nightclub | Queen's Court, Briggate | |
| 3 | missing | Sykes and Raynor | The Regent, Kirkgate |
| 4 | Mill Hill Chapel | Mill Hill Chapel, City Square | |
| 5 | Cyril Livingstone | Hotel Chocolat, 20 Albion Place, Leeds LS1 6JS | |
| 6 | My Sex - Our Dance: DV8 Physical Theatre | Yorkshire Dance, St Peter's Square, Leeds | |
| 7 | BBC building, St Peter's Square, Leeds | ||
| 8 | Alan Bennett | Leeds Playhouse | |
| 10 | Swarthmore Centre / Committee for Homosexual Equality | Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, Leeds LS3 1AD | |
| 11 | Soft Cell | Woodhouse Building of Leeds Beckett University, Woodhouse Lane | |
| 12 | Nicola Adams | wall of First Direct Arena | |
| 13 | 'Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society' | Parkinson Building, University of Leeds | |
| 14 | Section 28 | door of Leeds Central Library, on Centenary Square | |
| 15 | Polari | City Varieties Theatre. Swan Street, | |