Entries for the tag ‘Leeds City Museum’
📌 Established 1819, reopened 2008, housing in Cuthbert Brodrick's old Mechanics' Institute on Millennium Square. 
- 6 April 1821: At the opening of the hall of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, the surgeon Charles Turner Thackrah bids the town repay its debt to knowledge
- 3 April 1852: Brickfield workers from Wortley (Leeds) bring Henry Denny, curator of the Leeds Museum, some huge “unchristian” bones
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