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Part Eight of 'Oak Leaves' is now available. Copies of Part Six, Seven and Eight of 'Oak Leaves' retail at £3 each currently and can usually be obtained from :

Leeds Civic Trust, 17/19 Wharf Street

Philip Howard Book Shop, 47 Street Lane

City Stationers, 466 Roundhay Road

Gledhow Post Office, 2 Chandos Gardens

Roundhay Park Visitors' Centre

For back numbers of 'Oak Leaves' please contact Mrs Hilary Dyson by email at Peterhilary@aol.com from whom Parts 2 to 5 can be obtained for £1 50p per copy inclusive of postage  while stocks last.

Subject Contents of 'Oak Leaves' Books

Part One. Spring 2001

'Ownership of Roundhay Manor and Park' by Peter Kelley

'The Life and Family of Thomas Nicholson of Roundhay Park' by Neville Hurworth

'Gledhow School - Gledhow Lane (1972 - 1959)' by Barbara Barr

'Gettting to the Park' by Geoff Hall

'They Died in the Service of their Country' by Valerie Ives

Part Two. Autumn 2001

'Oakwood: the Nineteenth Century Suburb of Roundhay' by Geoff Hall

'Quarrying in the Oakwood Area' by Murray Mitchell

'Some Notes about the History of Roundhay Park Methodist Church' by Barbara Worthington

'The Roundhay and District Electric Lighting Company Limited' by Geoff Hall

'Shopping' by Hilary Dyson

Part Three. Summer 2002

'Louis A.A. Le Prince and the Whitley Family' by Peter Kelley

'HSBC Bank in Leeds' By Tina Staples HSBC Group Archives

'Early Birds Over Yorkshire' by Hilary Dyson

'The Parish Church of St. Edmund, Roundhay' by Geoffrey Bass

'Letter from one of our readers' John Harrison. October 2001.

'The Butler, the Coachman and the Governess' by Anne Wilkinson

Part Four. Spring 2003

'Parcmont' by Joan Newiss

'The Prehistoric Enclosure in Gipton Wood' by Peter Kelley

'Letter from one of our Readers. re Blackburns' by Vera Agar

'A Brief History of Roundhay St. Johns Church' by J. Dickinson & G.D. Webster

'William Penrose Green' by Dr. Raymond Dalton

'Mining in Gipton' by Peter Kelly and Murray Mitchell

Part Five. Christmas 2004

'Roundhay and the Domesday Survey of 1086' by Peter Kelley

'A History of St. John's School, Roundhay' by Anne Wilkinson

'A Brief History of Oakwood Library' by Barbara Worthington

'Memories of Daily Life in 1920s Gledhow' by Margaret Plows

Part Six. Autumn 2006

'Basil Hartley and Novello House (2 Ladywood Road)' by Hilary Dyson

'The Oakwood Train Crash' by John Harrison

'John William Jessop and Hatwood' by Gillian Figures

'The Reverend James Armitage Rhodes "Clerk Without Cure of Souls" A Remarkable Man'  

by Neville Hurworth

'Oak Leaves Prompts Memories of Roundhay from Australia' by Barbara Rowlands

Part Seven. Autumn 2007

'How Oakwood Got Its Clock' by John and Cynthia Harrison

'Instructions for a House Keeper' by Neville Hurworth

'Cobble-Stone Buildings in Roundhay Park' by Murray Mitchell

'A Note about the Coat of Arms above the Door of the Old Roundhay St John’s School on Wetherby Road' by Neville Hurworth

'A. Kershaw & Sons, The Early Years' by Peter Kelley

Part Eight. Autumn 2008

'The Closure of St John’s Church, Roundhay. Some Final Thoughts' by Neville Hurworth

'The History of Gledhow Hill House and Estate, the Home of Roundhay School' by Joan Newiss and Murray Mitchell

'The Truth, but Not the Whole Truth. Memories of Roundhay School, 1950-1957' by John Harrison

'Rowland Ding, Dare-devil Pilot of Soldiers’ Field' by David Hanson

'Travels With Mary Gordon' by Hilary Dyson

'The Parsons’ Connection with Gledhow Hill and Roundhay' by Neville Hurworth

Last Updated 6 September 2008 by Neville Hurworth