Historic Headingley centre:
3 North Lane
This third gallery focuses on historic North Lane and adjacent streets; it is accompanied by two further galleries, no1 for Headingley’s old Village Green and no2 for Otley Road and adjacent streets.
Headingley village was founded long ago, in a saddle on the ridge between the River Aire and Meanwood Beck. Its history has been marked by Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans, monks and later landowners. It was centred on the village green, surrounded by the Shire Oak, the manor hall, the church, the school and the two pubs. The Victorians made Headingley into a suburb of Leeds, with the first bus service, adding fine villas and stone terraces, and later brick terraces (the spaces they left were later filled by semis), and they opened shops along Otley Road and later along North Lane. And at the end of the Lane, they built a stadium, which has made Headingley world-famous.
For more info on the suburb and its surroundings, see the headline History of Headingley. For a wonderfully informative account, read Eveleigh Bradford, Headingley: this pleasant rural village, Northern Heritage (2008).
Photographs by kind permission of Leeds Library and Information Service and The Thoresby Society and Helen Pickering.
Some photographs are subject to copyright and should not be reproduced without the owner's permission.
Every effort has been made to trace and contact all copyright holders. We would be pleased to rectify at the earliest opportunity any omissions or errors brought to our notice.
For photographs of the area now, go to the Headingley Centre gallery.
