His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup-winning team, is a former defender for Leeds United and manager.

Melanie Brown, the former " Scary Spice " of the Spice Girls, born on 29 May 1975 in Leeds, has a Nevisian father.

** Victoria University, Leeds, a former College of the federal Victoria University ( UK ), now University of Leeds

* Local commercial stations include Dearne FM ( Barnsley ), The Pulse of West Yorkshire ( Bradford ), Trax FM ( Doncaster ), Compass FM ( Grimsby ), 97. 2 Stray FM ( Harrogate ), Home 107. 9 ( Huddersfield ), 96. 9 Viking FM ( Hull ), Rother FM, 96. 3 Radio Aire ( Leeds ), Yorkshire Coast Radio ( Scarborough ), Hallam FM ( Sheffield ), Fresh Radio ( Skipton ), Real Radio ( Tingley ), Ridings FM ( Wakefield ), 105 Capital FM Yorkshire ( former Galaxy Yorkshire ) and Minster FM ( York ).

former Blackpool F. C, Leeds United, Levante ( Spain ) & Sunderland player and the Republic of Ireland.

This collective effort was at the origin of many of Britain's building societies, which however developed into " permanent " mutual savings and loan organisations, a term which persisted in some of their names ( such as the former Leeds Permanent ).

In 1995, Leeds City Council and Leeds Groundwork formed a partnership which, together with local residents and community groups, transformed the former colliery into a 50 hectare country park.

The former Leeds tramway ran through Kirkstall until it was dismantled in 1959, a substation used by the tramway is still visible on Abbey Road.

* Morley and Leeds South ( UK Parliament constituency ) ( former )

Tong is in the extreme southeast of Bradford District in a green wedge of land between the urban areas of Bradford and Leeds, the centre of the former being to the northwest and the centre of the latter being about to the northeast.

' Hugh Gaitskell Primary School ' is situated in Beeston, part of his former Leeds South constituency.

View of East Country Yard Show with Anya Gallaccio | Anya Gallaccio's installation in foreground, 1990. In liaison with Hirst, Carl Freedman ( who had been friends with him in Leeds before Hirst moved to London and was helping to make Hirst's vitrines ) and Billee Sellman then curated two influential " warehouse " shows in 1990, Modern Medicine and Gambler, in a Bermondsey former factory they designated Building One.

Meaney played the former Leeds manager Don Revie.

John " Jack " Charlton, OBE, DL ( born 8 May 1935 in Ashington, Northumberland ) is an English former footballer and manager who played for Leeds United in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and was part of the England team who won the 1966 World Cup.

University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor and Russell Group chairman Professor Michael Arthur participated, giving an academic perspective alongside current vice-chancellor of Kingston University and former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at the University of Leeds, Sir Peter Scott.

The prayer room has undergone recent refurbishment after half a million pounds was allocated towards its development with joint efforts between Leeds University Union's Islamic Society, John Schless ( former LUU Societies Officer ) and the Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael Arthur.

Macclesfield Town started the 2007 – 08 season away with a 1 – 1 draw to former Premier League club Bradford City and narrowly lost 1 – 0 to another former Premier League team Leeds United in the first round of the League Cup.

Botkin's publicity caught the attention of a distant cousin of Anastasia's, Xenia Leeds, a former Russian princess who had married a wealthy American industrialist.

Built in the 1930s, the Quarry Hill Flats, Quarry Hill, Leeds | Quarry Hill, Leeds are a notable former example of council houses

The former regional franchisee Arriva Trains Northern initiated a twice daily Leeds – Glasgow Central service in 1999 ( calling at Settle, Appleby, Carlisle, Lockerbie and Motherwell ), but this was withdrawn at the behest of the Strategic Rail Authority in 2003, and there remains no link from Yorkshire or the East Midlands to Glasgow over the line.

) Lewis's built stores in Manchester ( 1877 ), Liverpool ( 1856 ), Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool ( The Bon Marche ), Leeds, Hanley, London ( Selfridges ), Bristol and Leicester.

Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

However, the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, authorised on 12 July 1837, was ; the Eastern Counties Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was ; London and Blackwall Railway, authorised on 28 July 1836, was ; the London and Brighton Railway, authorised on 15 July 1837, was ; the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, authorised on 30 June 1837, was ; the Manchester and Leeds Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was and the Northern and Eastern Railway, authorised on 4 July 1836, was.

In the United Kingdom, West Indian immigrants brought with them the traditions of Caribbean Carnival, however the Carnivals now celebrated at Notting Hill, London ; Leeds, Yorkshire, and other places have become divorced from their cycle in the religious year, becoming purely secular events, that take place in the summer months.

* King Edward VI of England founds 35 grammar schools by royal charter, including Shrewsbury ; Leeds Grammar School is also established.

He did nonetheless agree to some electoral reform ; he disfranchised several small boroughs, granted representation to large towns such as Manchester and Leeds, and increased the number of members elected by populous counties.

In 1830, Russell proposed another, similar scheme: the enfranchisement of Leeds, Manchester, and Birmingham, and the disfranchisement of the next three boroughs found guilty of corruption ; again, the proposal was rejected.

However this may not be applicable to urbanised villages: although these may not considered to be villages, they are often widely referred to as being so ; an example of this is Horsforth in Leeds.

; these sheds are dotted around the noted " Rhubarb Triangle " of Wakefield, Leeds, and Morley,

John Leeds Barroll argues in his cultural biography of Anne that her political interventions in Scotland were more significant, and certainly more troublesome, than previously noticed ; and Clare McManus, among other cultural historians, has highlighted Anne's influential role in the Jacobean cultural flowering, not only as a patron of writers and artists but as a performer herself.

Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots ; King James VI of Scotland ; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ; documentary film pioneer John Grierson ; film music composer Muir Mathieson ; animation pioneer Norman McLaren ; TV presenter Kirsty Young ; and footballers Billy Bremner ( captain of Leeds United and Scotland ) and Frank Beattie ( captain of Kilmarnock ).

In the Seacroft area of Leeds in West Yorkshire there is a council estate named Boggart Hill ; Boggart Hill Drive, Boggart Hill Gardens and Boggart Hill were all given the name of the estate area.

The King had besieged Leeds after she had refused Edward's consort Isabella of France admittance in her husband's absence ; when the latter had sought to force an entry, Lady Badlesmere had instructed her archers to fire upon the Queen and her party, six of whom were killed.

COWSEL was initially implemented on a Ferranti Pegasus computer at the University of Leeds and on a Stantec Zebra at the Bradford Institute of Technology ; later, Rod Burstall implemented it on an Elliot 4120 at the University of Edinburgh.

After a gap of around 30 years, new high-rise flats are once again being built in Belfast, Birmingham ( some are for wealthy people, e. g. The Mailbox, others are student accommodation ), Cardiff, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Newcastle upon Tyne ; but this time sometimes for wealthy professionals, rather than the ` lower classes `.

* Peter Kellogg ( born 1943 ), tied for number 278 on Forbes Magazine's 2006 Billionaires List, with a net worth of $ 2. 6 billion ; director of the Wall Street investment firm Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, which was sold to Goldman Sachs in 2000 for $ 5. 5 billion.

This station was formerly named Lancaster Castle railway station in order to differentiate it from Lancaster Green Ayre railway station on the Leeds – Morecambe line, which closed in 1966.

The Leeds Mercury headlined them ' The Chartist Insurrection ', but suspicion also hung over the Anti-Corn Law League that manufacturers among its members deliberately closed mills to stir-up unrest.

The canal between Walton Summit and the Leeds and Liverpool link at Johnson's Hillock was last used in 1932 ( although a party in canoes managed to navigate the branch as late as 1969 with only two portages ) This section was closed in the 1960s, as a result of the M61 motorway proposal which would have required three bridges over the canal.

It is on the Caldervale Line between Leeds and Bradford Interchange and was built to replace Pudsey's two original stations — Pudsey Lowtown and Pudsey Greenside — which were both closed in 1964 by the Beeching Axe along with the GNR Pudsey Loop serving them.

ITV made cutbacks with the loss of 600 jobs in 2009 which effectively closed the Leeds Studios and more redundancies made in London left Granada relatively unscathed.

Another channel, Wellbeing, a joint venture with Boots, modelled on Granada Breeze was broadcast from The Leeds Studios, although Granada made some programmes, closed in 2003.

* Other routes planned for closure which survived included: Settle-Carlisle Line, Ipswich – Lowestoft, Manchester – Sheffield via Edale ( but the Woodhead Line and Bakewell routes closed instead ), Ayr – Stranraer, Glasgow – Kilmarnock, Glasgow – Edinburgh via Shotts, Barrow – Whitehaven, Middlesbrough – Whitby, York – Harrogate, Leeds / Bradford – Ilkley, Nottingham – Lincoln, Boston – Skegness, Birkenhead – Wrexham, Liverpool – Southport ( and other Merseyside commuter routes ), Bury-Manchester, Leicester – Peterborough, Hastings – Ashford and Ryde – Shanklin.

The site closed in summer 2007 after which the courses taught there were relocated to the main campus in Leeds.

In October 2004, ITV plc closed Central's presentation / transmission department and moved transmission to the Northern Transmission Centre in Leeds.

In March 2009, ITV plc announced that the Leeds Studios were to be largely closed in an effort to save costs following a reported loss of £ 2. 7 billion for 2008.

On 16 March 1996, the presentation department in Newcastle was closed, and continuity was centralised in Leeds.

However, the arrival of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and later the ( now closed ) railway, spurred the development of the existing woollen industry, and helped it to become a major cotton town.

There was also a venue at the Merrion Centre in Leeds which opened in November 2003 but closed in June 2004.

However the Leeds branch closed in 2006 and the other planned Babycreams never materialised.

The Kirkgate plant was closed in 1838 after compulsory purchase of the land by the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and the site was cleared.

In the Championship, Reading have closed the gap between them and Sheffield United to three points, with Luton, Watford, Leeds and Crystal Palace completing the top six and Brighton, Crewe and Millwall in the relegation zone.

1988 was the last year of Oldsmobile Firenza production and Leeds Assembly was then closed.

Leeds Assembly, which built the Firenza, was closed.

Closure was postponed until 1 May 1867, while both the Bradford Company and the Leeds and Liverpool attempted to obtain an Act of Parliament, but both failed, and so the canal closed and was drained.

In 1985 the synagogue closed and the building was bought by Leeds City Council.

Matthew Murray High School situated between Beeston and Holbeck recently closed down and was merged with Merlyn Rees High School in Belle Isle, to form South Leeds High School in Belle Isle.

One of the longer lived and better known brands in the UK is Silver Cross, first manufactured in Hunslet, Leeds, in 1877, and later Guiseley from 1936 until 2002 when the factory closed.

On 14 September, in order to gain match fitness, Núñez played 90 minutes in Leeds ' 3 – 1 behind closed doors friendly win against Middlesbrough.

Owner of the London and Manchester Comedy Stores, he opened a branch in Leeds in 2002, but closed it after just 8 months.

The college merged with the University of Leeds in 2001 but closed in 2007.