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Queen Victoria

A figure in bronze of the late Queen Victoria created by sculptor George Frampton. The statue is located on Woodhouse Moor, a public park in Leeds that was visited by Queen Victoria in 1858. Together with large bronze figures representing Peace and Industry, the statue forms part of the Victoria Memorial erected in memory of the late Queen in 1905. It sits on top of a 30 foot high plinth of Portland stone. At the base of the statue, on the right, it’s just possible to make out the name of the artist, and underneath this, the date 1905.

The following is a description of the statue from the Yorkshire Evening Post of the 23rd November 1905 :

“Queen …

The Victoria Memorial

The Victoria Memorial cost nearly £8,000 and was unveiled on the afternoon of Monday the 27th November 1905 by the then Lord Mayor, Mr Edwin Woodhouse, in the area in front of the Town Hall then known as Victoria Square.

During the ceremony, the Lord Mayor charged the city to keep the the memorial in good condition for all time. But despite this, and the fact that the memorial is one of the most impressive to be erected in memory of the late Queen, in recent years it has been neglected. The bronze figure representing Industry was removed by the Leeds City Council and has been missing from the memorial for several years. The memorial was moved to its present …

Marsden

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Peace

This large bronze figure forms part of the Victoria Memorial erected in memory of the late Queen in 1905 and located on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds. It represents Peace and was designed by sculptor George Frampton.

The following is a description of the statue taken from the Yorkshire Evening Post of the 23rd November 1905 :

“Peace, the figure on the west side, is classic in design, beautiful in form and face. She bears a palm in one hand, and an orb, symbolic of the world, in the other; and above her are delineations of the fruits of the earth, signifying plenty.”…

Milestone

The journalist Keith Waterhouse referred to the milestone in a colourful article he wrote for the Yorkshire Evening Post which was published on the 25th August 1950:

Park with petrified air of Sunday

LONDON has a Hyde Park and so has Leeds. They are not the same size; and though this local edition of the Park carries on its notice boards a yard of by-laws dealing with bathing offences, it has no Serpentine. It has not even a proper claim to the title of Hyde Park, for thought that is the name of the suburb in which it stands, its real name is Woodhouse Moor.

But for all that, the two Hyde Parks have a common bond. They both have …

Friends of Woodhouse Moor

Friends of Woodhouse Moor was formed by local people in March 2006 in reaction to a plan by Leeds City Council’s Parks and Countryside Department to build a car park on Monument Moor to relieve parking congestion in the city centre. Although, the plan was eventually scrapped by the Council’s Executive Board on the 17th May 2006, the Friends have remained as a group dedicated to maintaining the Moor as a sustainable amenity for the local community, in the spirit in which it was originally purchased by and for the citizens of Leeds.…

Marsden is moved to the Moor

Prior to being erected on Woodhouse Moor in 1952, the Marsden statue used to stand in the town centre. Here is a Yorkshire Evening Post article from the 17th June 1952 which describes the unveiling of the statue in its new home.

Marsden is restored to public view

THEY dropped the Marsden Statue today with a faint “clonk” on its plinth in Woodhouse Moor, Leeds.

After spending 72 years at the corner of Albion Street and Merrion Street, and two years in a Corporation store, the figure of Ald. Henry Rowland Marsden now has an uninterrupted view, to his left, of Peter’s Patent Powder Works. On his right there opens the vista of a public-house, a public library and a …