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Welcome to Hyde Park. This is a guide to the Hyde Park area.

©Gordon Kneale Brooke

Seen from the church grounds looking south, Headingley Lane is behind the Church

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This church is very close to Hyde Park Corner, at the junction of Hyde Park Road and Hyde Park Terrace.

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Sir Robert Peel looks out from the north end of Woodhouse Moor, across Hyde Park Road towards Wrangthorne Church. (Sorry I haven't got his face - with a low winter sun behind him it was not possible!)
Robert Peel died in an accident in 1850, and 26 statues of him were erected around Britain. This was the first, and also claims 2 other firsts, the first bronze figure in Britain that was cast in one piece, and the first dressed as his contemporaries would have known him, rather than in Greek or Roman drapes.

©RichTea

Looking north-west along Woodhouse Lane, to The Hyde Park pub

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Looking north towards Hyde Park Corner

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The path leading south across Woodhouse Moor

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The path parallel to Hyde Park Road, looking south-west

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The Bear Pit is all that remains of the Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a not very successful Victorian venture. It was built in 1840, and the bears were displayed in a circular pit on the far side of this wall. The public viewed them from the tops of the turrets, one of which has a spiral staircase (the other probably had one as well.) The Leeds Civic Trust restored it in 1966.

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Now the Diocesan Pastoral Centre for the Catholic Diocese of Leeds. It was originally built in the 19th century as a Wesleyan College and later taken over by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

©Betty Longbottom

Now used as a Pastoral Centre for the Catholic Diocese of Leeds. It was built in the 19th century originally as a Wesleyan College and was later used by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

©Betty Longbottom

©Betty Longbottom

Formerly Bethel Church built c1886

©Betty Longbottom

This tree on Headingley lane looks as if it's flowing down the wall

©Malcolm Morris

©Betty Longbottom

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