American Reacts to the BEST Things in Leeds
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Like most Americans I am not familiar with the British city of Leeds. Today I am very interested in learning about some of the best things to see and do in Leeds. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I would never have guessed that Tyler has so many viewers from Leeds. HELLO to my fellow Yorkshire folk.
Hello!
Hiya ❤
Ey up chuck
@@randomrainbows hello
Is it that Tyler has so many viewers from Leeds? Or is it that we Leeds people weck up on't moornin', go to t'tinternet and tarp in "What're thi bloody seyin abart Leeds t'day?".
Most of our historic buildings are actually much older than the U.S.A. The corn Exchange was a place for farmers to buy and sell grain.
Leeds is probably the only settlement in the North of England which is actually doing well economically and is becoming richer rather than poorer.
Is Leeds doing well economically though, I didn't know that.
It's great to see my city though your eyes! Thank you!
Never expected to see Tyler react to the city I was born and raised in, and still live in (not that he'll read this comment of course haha!). Nearly all these places trigger some childhood memories for me, especially Roundhay Park, as I used to walk to and from there and around the whole place regularly with my late grandad from the age of around 2.
I recently found some old school work from when I was aged 11/12 (I'm now 37) that was a tourist info book we had to make in Geography class, all about Leeds. All the attractions in this video bar the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the fact the city museum was in a different location back then, are things I mentioned in this project funnily enough; shows some things are simply timeless.
(That shot with the dinosaur, which was part of an exhibition that is no longer there, niggled me though. That is from a completely different shopping centre to Victoria Quarter, called Trinity Leeds; not sure why they included that there!).
Gods, Roundhay Park! What memories!
loved bonfire night at roundhay
Leeds is one of the largest cities in the UK. The city is in West Yorkshire - you'd say it is in South-West of Yorkshire (in the North of England with the Moors and Dales of the Pennine Hills on the Western side of the ancient historic county of Yorkshire which runs to the North Sea Eastern coast, and between the River Humber to the South and the River Tees to the North.
Other great Yorkshire cities are the "capital" York from which the county is named, Bradford and Wakefield (like Leeds in West Yorkshire), Sheffield and the large towns of Doncaster and Rotherham in the South, (Kingston upon) Hull and the towns of Beverley and Driffield in the East, and the large town of Middlesbrough in the North with lots of market towns including Northallerton and the various towns in the Tees Valley.
Yorkshire was traditionally divided into thirds (or Ridings): the North, East and West Ridings - the capital of the West Riding was never Leeds which grew massively in the Industrial Revolution, but Wakefield.
Yorkshire may be looked on as the "Texas of England". People are very loyal to Yorkshire which they refer to as God's Own Country, England's biggest county (so big that even its parts are big - North Yorkshire which is almost the same as the old North Riding is, on its own, England's largest county). Yorkshire folk keep a keenly felt (mostly friendly) rivalry with folk from Lancashire on the other side of the Pennine Hills, and folk from County Durham (mostly a North Riding rivalry).
Yorkshire County Cricket Club plays now mostly at Headingley in Leeds but has a small number of games at Scarborough on the North Yorkshire Coast.
Just a correction, Doncaster is now a city was named one by the queen like two years ago, my other half would kill me if I didn’t correct that 😂
Dino was in the Trinity centre another shopping area of Leeds… Leeds is in West Yorkshire part of Yorkshire….. Leeds is in Yorkshire….corn exchange is the grain corn…it was sold there..it’s now a lot of shops….Temple Newsome is a big park and stately home and is owned by Leeds city council.. the government of Leeds City varieties music hall is tiny and is good for pantomimes…Yorkshire sculpture park is outside of Leeds and the sculptures change with time..the big gigs are held at the O2 arena.. proper concert stadium..
I clocked that one 😂
i lived right in front of middleton railway for while on moor road it just took you from just behind our house to middleton park
also now really close to temple newsam and the house you pay to look round like a museum and there is also a farm which the kids love
thackrey medical museum has an area modelled after ancient streets right down to the smell...
Corn exchange, think stock exchange but for grain. In the past it was a trading floor where merchants would buy and sell grain and options on harvests. In a time when bread and beer were staples of most people's diets. Grains, such as wheat and barley were a vital part of the economy. There are buildings, formally corn exchanges, in many UK cities
I'm Leeds born and bred. I haven't been to 50% of these places. You missed out on the The Armly Industrial Museum.
Damn can’t believe it didn’t talk about Headingly, as a rugby league fan I’m definitely biased but the stadium tour is one thing I highly recommend. Like learning about how 2 suffragettes, Clara Giveen and Hilda Brukett, attempted to burn down the north stand during a visit from the prime minister on 24th of November 1913
Leeds is well known for having at least one roadworks project going on at all times.
A corn exchange was like a stock exchange, but the trading was in corn (that's wheat, barley, oats, not maize).
It’s a shame that they didn’t explain ‘why’ certain attractions are our attractions… like the Thackray Medical Museum, named after Charles Frederick Thackray who was the inventor/pioneer of modern hip replacement surgery and, we still make implants here. It’s loacted next to one of the BIGGEST university hospitals in Europe, let alone the UK.
Leeds is the largest financial district outside of London.
The Abbey House Museum is facing Kirkstall Abbey…
They didn’t mention our large Victorian Kirkgate Market.
They didn’t mention that we have the oldest West Indian Carnival in Europe… older than Notting Hill.
There are two lakes at my local Roundhay Park which is MASSIVE.
The film The Full Monty might’ve been filmed in Sheffield but the saying comes from our tailors Burton’s!
Marks & Spencers are from Leeds (started in Leeds Kirkgate Market as mentioned above).
The first ever moving film IN THE WORLD was filmed on Leeds Bridge.
At the bottom of the bridge, there’s a building that is quite old and the Flat Iron Building in New York was designed based upon our building in Leeds.
The reason you’ve probably never heard of Leeds is that, unlike the other more famous cities here, we don’t have to blow our trumpet and ram it down your throat! We’re just laid back because we’re Yorkshire folk!😂
I live in the UK and love visiting local museums and stately homes, historical buildings.
I have been to the Armouries a lot, but what I tend to do is sit near the canal on a sunny day & read outside of it. They have jousting matches in May with horses & riders. (Weather providing.) They can be expensive. They have donation tubs around the museum. It is free to enter the museum, and the little shows they put on, just not the Jousts in the Tilt Yard.
23:15 I WENT THERE TOOOO FINALLY A VIDEO WHERE I WENT TO PLACES!
Yorkshire is collection of cities, town and villages. It is known as a county such as north, west, south and East Yorkshire.. so Leeds would be part of west yorkshire as it in west side of yorkshire you. Manchester is part of the county of Lancashire. There is well known history fact about the battle of the roses.
I did the history of medicine for my GCSE’s so that medical museum looks great to me.
Nice I live in Leeds but also not in Leeds. I have a Leeds Post (area) Code. But I am in North Yoprkshire. It's odd And the boarder makes going to Leeds more expensive than York often. I have been to most of these places. Nice.
Abbey House museum is across the road from Kirkstall Abbey that you saw earlier..
I think mention of the John Lewis shop on this video is controversial. The John Lewis shop in Leeds was opened just before John Lewis shops in many other parts of the UK started to close down. Other cities had them long before. I doubt Leeds would still have one if it hadn't been so recently built.
I will never again buy anything in that shop as the closure of shops in other cities, some in Yorkshire, but many all over the UK have destroyed the city centres and caused people to lose their jobs. The shop didn't seem to care about the impact that its withdrawal from high streets would have. E.g. Aberdeen's closure had had an impact on that city. Sheffield had a John Lewis that was closed down not long ago, it was the biggest department store there, a massive shop with five floors and a multistory car park. People used to shop there from far and wide. The building is in a prime location in the city centre but is now boarded up! The council is trying to find an alternative use for it as it is a protected building (listed building) because of its architectural importance (sixties building). On closing this shop John Lewis had the cheek to tell people in Sheffield to travel to Leeds to shop there instead! Leeds is about 40 miles from Sheffield. Disgraceful. If the reason is that John Lewis is in financial difficulties then the future of the shop in Leeds is not certain!
I have been in the museums in the city centre.
There is another museum on The Headrow, just around the corner from this one.
Leeds where all or most leodians live 😂😂😂😂Tyler Leeds is part of Yorkshire.
There's plenty of videos on TH-cam about Leeds.. like driving around 1980s Leeds , Leeds Liverpool canal .
Leeds railway . And lots more .
The other way around. Leeds is a part of Yorkshire. Leeds is a City in Yorkshire county.
Tyler - Leeds is close to Yorkshire like Indianapolis is close to Indiana 😁
Cheers buddy always like your vid's
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley was unfortunate enough to have really important royal connections. At this time the Stuart dynasty was ruling Scotland; on his father's side he belonged to a junior branch of the Stuarts with no claim on the Scottish throne.
But his mother, Margaret Douglas, was closely linked to the English royal family, when there were few members of that family. For Margaret's mother was Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's older sister. Margaret Douglas's half brother was James V, King of Scots; he died quite young, leaving the throne to his little daughter Mary, Queen of Scots.
After her first husband ( a King of France) died with no children, Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin Darnley, partly because they both shared a claim to the English throne, and he happened to have been born in England, at Temple Newsam.
But Mary regretted her marriage. Darnley seems to have had no brains. Roman Catholic in a country turning Protestant, Mary became very friendly with her Italian secretary, Rizzio. But, a group of nobles, including a jealous Darnley, invaded Mary"s rooms and proceeded to murder Rizzio in front of her, and she was heavily pregnant! ( She later successfully bore the baby ( James VI of Scots, I of England) who did look like Darnley later on.)
But Mary took her revenge,. Quarantined because of illness, Darnley was living apart when his house wss torn apart by an explosion. He was found dead - stabbed I believe - lying outside.Mary then married the likely murderer!
So the Scots deposed her, and replaced her by her infant son, James VI.
A sorry tale.
Maybe Americans who know rock music would know Leeds from the well known album by The Who - Live At Leeds.
Capital of the North, in Gods Own County. Couldn't get a better place if you tried.
I love Leeds it's amazing place ❤
I've lived in Leeds for over 30 years, and just need to point out there IS more to it than museums and old buildings! A huge modern arena concert venue, thriving student population, world-class restaurants, a renowned craft beer scene, huge football, cricket and rugby grounds, massive annual West Indian carnival, TV studios, the annual Leeds music festival (Liam Gallagher, Blink 182 and Prodigy all playing next week) - it's a modern city as well as a beautiful and historic one. Thanks for taking a look!
Hearing someone who isn't from the UK doing a video on the city where I live is crazy.
Hope you come visit one day.
For real ❤
Leeds is in Yorkshire as is Bradford, Wakefield, York, Hull, Bridlington, Scarborough, Whitby, Pontefract, Sheffield, Doncaster, and many other cities. Yorkshire is the UK,s Largest county.
Am really interested in learning about Leeds. I'm pretty chuffed to have been chosen to represent my city (Brighton & Hove) at an event in Leeds in a couple of weeks.
But now I've seen this, it looks like one weekend is nowhere near enough time to get anything more than a taster. ☺
The population is almost the same as the entire population of Scotland and the Isles.
Yes mush big up Ponte charva
It’s only the largest if you count the 3 counties of Yorkshire as one county, instead of North South and West Yorkshire because they all end in Yorkshire (it’s bigger if those damn Hull buggers stop playing special and start calling itself East Yorkshire again).
@@Nevyn515 If you count them separately, then North Yorkshire is still the largest.
A corn exchange is what in America one calls a grain exchange. They were originally built as centres where farmers, wholesalers, breweries, distillers, large-scale bakers, and exporters could buy and sell not just corn, but any grain. Minneapolis Grain Exchange still functions for this purpose today. I think the one in Winnipeg does too.
Tyler probably doesn't know where Winnipeg is, after all it's not in the USA.
@@keithhurst2970He has a reaction channel for Canada under the name of Tyler Bucket, he probably still doesn’t know where Winnipeg is 😂
There's a corn exchange in Manchester it's a posh restaurant now.
Corn IS any grain, technically. "Korn" still means this in Deutsch|German, "mais" means maize or sweetcorn. The British (and Irish) and other European colonists originally called maize "Indian corn" and then stopped bothering with the "Indian" part. (Probably just as well as they aren't Indians; they're Americans, who colonised the uninhabited continent and are therefore not any kind of Asian for 10,000, 20,000 (or 30,000?) years and are therefore more American than any other citizen of the country of America (the Utd. S.s of America) or of any American country from Arctic Canada to Tierra del Fuego & Chile & Argentina.). Hence the use of "corn" for only maize in both/all forms of English nowadays.
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I ate in a restaurant in a Corn Exchange, I think the Leeds Corn Exchange. Or it was a function room or something, but whatever, for my Grandma's 90th Birthday Party. She was from Sunderland originally, but her and Grandad had to move to Bradford because the other doctors in Grandad's GP Practice in Sunderland wanted no part of this newfangled "National Health Service" and he was fine with seeing NHS patients. And so my Mum was born a Yorkshire lass not in County Durham/Wearside... And Gran ended her life in Leeds 'cos she had to move out of even her flat in Airedale into a care home and the nearest Jewish care home was in Leeds, so to Leeds she went...
Where is Leeds (?), there it is "...who knew...?" - EVERYONE in the UK, that's who !!! 😂😂😂
Except, its nowhere near the Castle (Leeds Castle).
A bit like Buckingham, and Buckingham Palace.
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I didn't apart from the north.
@@stephenlee5929my great uncle was the groundskeeper at Leeds castle. I used to love going to visit him and seeing the castle as a kid. I lived in Rochester at the time. Then we moved to Yorkshire, near Leeds and I was so confused as a kid over why there is a city in the north called Leeds but the Castle with the same name is down south in Kent.
I liked the comment about Yorkshire too :D
@@StefanPriceUK Is the north, anywhere near 'THE NORTH' ? as shown on most Motorway signs.
Best thing in Leeds....LEEDS UNITED football club !! Owned by San Francisco 49s and has RUSSELL CROWE as a fan.
Greetings from Castleford near Leeds, locally known as Cas Vegas, just down the road from Pontefract, known as Ponte Carlo.
Leeds also has some of the finest independent breweries in the UK :)
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is 10 minutes down the M1 motorway.
Although you won't see this comment (because you and your brother NEVER read them); FYI the majority of museums and art galleries are FREE in the UK. So if visiting ANY area of England, Wales, Scotland or NI, look up what FREE places are nearby, to save money on a day out! 👍
These comments are getting boring. Just talk to the rest of us. Not to Tyler.
@Burglar-King been saying that for months lol
His brother does actually respond to comments occasionally.
Leeds is a fabulous mainly underlooked city, people tend to talk about Manchester as the premier city in the north of England. However Leeds should be visited maybe as a joint cultural location with York. 😊
Yes Tyler, Yorkshire is extremely close to Leeds. 😂
You're terrible.😂😂😂😂
Leeds is a City in the County of Yorkshire!
Yorkshire itself is the largest historical county in England. It is divided into four ceremonial sub counties.
For context, you need to check out on Google or Wikipedia. Leeds is one of the 8 Cities within the historical county.
York, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Bradford, Ripon, Wakefield and Doncaster... Huddersfield should be a city and Ripon should not....
@@lucifermorningstar4606
As long as the Batley Mafia is running Kirklees Huddersfield has no chance of becoming a city despite having a University and a Bishop.
@@lucifermorningstar4606 Yeah that one's always confused me with Ripon being a city despite being smaller than nearby Harrogate. Huddersfield would make more sense
@@lucifermorningstar4606Ripon historically is one of the oldest cities like York. It was hugely important but with the Industrial revolution it's importance dropped because Cities like Leeds and Manchester became more important for Trade.
Bradford as well as a mill City grew because of easy to get to the ports in Hull and Liverpool
Wait ripon is classed as a city, how ? @@lucifermorningstar4606
The UK is old, so of course, it's going to have many old buildings.
The US is young; as the inventor of skyscrapers, the safety elevator, etc., of course, it's going to have many skyscrapers.
You expected the reverse?
The UK invented the multi-storey, iron framed building, acknowledged as the grandfather of the skyscraper. Ditherington Maltings was built in the 1790s and is still standing today.
It's pretty sad you had to explain that.
Leeds is the 4th largest city in the UK. It's amazing
Actually you might find it's the 2rd largest city in England according to some sites lol
What people refer to as London is technically lots of cities merged together.
Birmingham is one large city, the biggest.
Manchester is made up many smaller places like London.
That makes Leeds technically the 2nd largest city in UK.
If you go by metropolitan size. It’s
London, Birmingham, Greater Manchester then West Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford)
I love listening to Tyler. Is Yorkshire near Leeds? Comedy gold . Has he learned anything🤣
Not really, no.
Americans ought to understand about counties as each state is made up of counties!
Whoop, lived in Leeds most of my life, it's a great city!
'Where is Yorkshire? It must be near Leeds' 😂🤣😂
😅😅 wants to "learn" but can't use Google.
A choke on the coffee moment for sure 😂
England is somewhere in London
@@malcolmhouston7932 😂😂😂
My reaction went from "OMG!" to head in hands with despair at American septic tank ignorance to LOL ❗️😆😂🤣🤣. And possibly other emotions/reactions in between.
Quick tip which will greatly enhance your videos, if you have an easy question Google is right there in front of you lol, such as "Where is Yorkshire?"
You don't know much, I guess that is what you get living in sticks? You always seem so surprised by the history of the UK. Did the plantation owners not import culture from Europe to the USA. I guess they were a bit busy grabbing land from the natives? I have been to Leeds, it's another old English city. A corn exchange is where farmers went to sell their crops. It was against English law to sell people in England since William the first. Do all Americans chatter on instead of listening and learning. Thank god I was not exposed to the USA education system.
No need to be rude.
plantation owners ha ha
We need a part2.... 'American reacts to leeds riot'
Thanks👍
Love the fact that your doing a video on my home city 😍 Leeds born and bred and love it. And I am lucky enough to live just a 10 minute walk from Kirkstall Abbey. And my cousin got married at Harewood House 😍 This shows a lot of museums but Leeds is also a very modern vibrant city too. And Leeds is IN Yorkshire, TheYorkshire Sculpure Park is very close to the city. Hyde Park Picture House is a working Cinema and one of the oldest in the UK.
It’s not often that people not from the Uk talk about cities other than London so I’m so glad it’s Leeds ❤
Yorkshire is the largest county in England and Leeds is a city in west Yorkshire. Wakefield is not that far away
im a wakey dweller :)
There are 2 Leeds in the US. I live in Roundhay Leeds. Many many places in the US are named after English places. US geography lessons last 60 seconds.
..go fiygurrr
Hello from Wakefield! Im 20 mins from Leeds and work right next door to the Thackray medical museum at the hospital 😁. Very cool of you to take a look at our city
My US colleagues used to love Leeds for the huge variety of restaurants with food from around the world. They’d always stay at hotels in Leeds and commute by train out to our office in Saltaire.
Leeds Grand Theatre is larger than the other musical theatre, and is mainly known for Pantomimes, Ballet showd, Musicals, etc.
There are only two kinds of people in the world... Those people born in Yorkshire and those people who wished that they HAD been born in Yorkshire!
Happy to have been born in your southern neighbour, Derbyshire
@@MartinMilnerUK I'm even more happy to have been born in your Southern neighbour.
The much more famous Nottinghamshire.
Temple newSam is the the land used to be owed by the knights Templar ! The house was built by Thomas lord Darcy later on lived and owned by the Ingram family was also once owned by the royal family Queen Elizabeth I at one point ! Who left the house to go into disarray and abonaoned when she seized the house
There are more financial establishments in Leeds than any other city outside London. Lot of money in Leeds. I live in Roundhay, Leeds.
13:30 - Yorkshire is the county... well, it's a few counties .. North Yorkshire (where York is), South Yorkshire (where Sheffield is), West Yorkshire (where Leeds is), and East Riding of Yorkshire (Where Hull is). Leeds is the largest city in Yorkshire.
York is actually in all three of the Ridings of Yorkshire. It has tidal river and medium sizes yachts can access the city easily plus it is a walled city
@@SteveBagnall-gh1fu I knew only about the wall. I love York. Have been there twice since leaving the UK
@@SteveBagnall-gh1fu It bears repeating - - because there are so many people alive who, like me, metally default to the old county boundaries including "Cleveland" (you remember, the place where it turned out there wasn't a Satanic human-sacrifice cult)
The Middleton Railway is a preserved railway that used to be in service many years ago, got closed down, and then reopened as a heritage railway. A heritage railway is simply an old railway (in your case, a railroad) that has simply been preserved by volunteers for historic purposes, and there are many of them around the country. They aren't so much for touring a particular city or town, they are simply for history and people who wish to ride an old railway
@@Sideways101100 used to live beside it in hunslet - over the road from the station x
Leeds is in Yorkshire. Yorkshire is the county, Leeds is a city in Yorkshire, just like York is...
I live in Leeds my whole life so preppy 🎀🎀🎀
OMG……does this man know nothing?!
He knows zip narda nothing has never left his bubble and is your average wilfully ignorant American
Leeds is a city in the County of Yorkshire.
HAREWOOD HOUSE. is still lived in and owned by the Queens cousin (or dependents) You can pay to go around it or just pay a lesser fee to go around the grounds.
Lord Harewood is a direct descendant of king George V
I've lived in Leeds my whole life and it's a cool city. Lots of bars, restaurants, shops and music events. But unfortunately a high crime rate due to insufficient policing.
“Insufficient policing”
Understatement of the year…
You've never heard of Leeds Fest dude? Only one of the biggest Music Festivals in the world. I saw Nirvana there. Also Leeds is home to the infamous Leeds United, look em up.
Heck, I've never heard of Leeds Fest (though I grew up in Canada and live in the US, I've been to and have family in the UK). I'd venture many Americans have never heard of Glastonbury, which I'd guess is even more famous.
I’m from Leeds, and there is sooooo much more to do than that!
This wouldn’t be the same list for a Leeds resident. These are specific to Leeds, and the normal city things like night life, sport clubs and arenas (that you find in all cities) that, although are fitting for a city the size of Leeds, have been omitted.
I’d also say that Temple Newsam and Harewood House are not really in the city it’s self, but do have an LS postcode
The Yorkshire Sculpture park is NOT in Leeds. It is at a place called West Bretton and thus classed as being in Wakefield (another city in West Yorkshire) but it is very close to Barnsley (in South Yorkshire) too. It is well worth a visit but you would need to spend a whole day there to appreciate it and you would need walking shoes if viewing the sculptures in the park as well as in the exhibition halls, as it covers a huge area. I think I am right in stating that it was originally set up by the Henry Moore Foundation. Take your sandwiches if you are short of cash as the cost of the refreshments has soared. Parking used to be free but they charge for it now. It is in the grounds of what was once a stately home called Bretton Hall which was latterly a teacher training college. The college was one that specialised in producing teachers skilled at the creative arts. There are world famous sculptures in there including a number of Henry Moore's sculptures and Barbara Hepworth's Family of Man.
There is also the National Mining Museum very close to the Yorkshire Sculpture park but that got no mention! They are both very close to the M1 motorway.
Wondering why the person who narrated this talks about "errors" instead of eras, I think it's an AI voice as it's adding an American pronunciation that no one with the English accent the narrator has would make!!!
Yes, THE CORN EXCHAGE was the place where they weighed and sold their Corn when it had a value.
Leeds is not a city that we tend to hear about or talk about in the UK. It's a big city, it's a proud city... but no-one likes them and they don't care.
So I have grown up in this city, As a small kid I lived in Middleton and as a teen i used to hang out with all the alternative kids, goths and moshers behind the corn ex. It can be a nice city to visit, but please remember that these places are mostly expensive.
lol corn ex kids are the best!
do I know you?!?
Leeds is in Yorkshire. A county.
Yorkshire is not in Leeds. Leeds is in Yorkshire, specifically the county of West Yorkshire. We have three Yorkshire's, North, West and South. No, no East.
He is finally doing something from where I live
As someone from Leeds, at least we're not Bradford!
controversial
And everywhere else has a superior football team.
Hi fellow leeds folks x
As someone from and in Leeds, I’m sure I’ve never heard of your home town/city either. But I suppose the internal get of other countries is not something we pay close attention to.
And Leeds is in West Yorkshire. Think of Yorkshire as a state in US terms, containing cities. It is separated into North, West and South Yorkshire as separate counties (states) but collectively referred to as just Yorkshire when referring to the region as a whole.
There’s also The Humber which goes back and forth between that and East Yorkshire.
And some of the things in the list are everyday, I tend to have my lunch at Kirstall Abbey as it’s set in a park, the Victoria Centre is a through-way between two other streets even if you’re not shopping there, The Varieties is common for some shows/dates etc, and the Corn Exchange is considered a pretty normal place to shop for certain things (not your grocery shopping but for less mainstream things that aren’t found in an every day store, it’s mostly boutiques rather than stores.
The medical museum is a pretty normal stop if you have a some time to kill if you are attending St James hospital (Jimmy’s) which is where I was born.
I guess that locals find local attractions less tourist-trap and more just normal local things that are nearby or an everyday part of life.
1:38 I WENT THERE ON A SCHOOL TRIP!! Like in year 6 I remember like we kept our stuff/ate at the top of the stairs and it was so tiring going up and downb(I hate stairs) and we were split up into groups and stuff and of this is the correct one we took photos with the canons outside 2:32 oh yeah we watched that
Since you like all of the old buildings, and they mentioned some buildings as being Grade 1 or 2 listed, you should look into how historical buildings in England are listed into categories, and the rules that need to be followed concerning their maintenance.
Blists hill Victorian village , ironbridge, was amazing.. old Victorian buildings due to be demolished around UK, that were dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt in this tourist village. All the staff dressed in Victorian clothes , was like going back in time
A 'corn exchange' is a building where merchants traditionally traded in grains (we call many types of grain, like wheat and barley, 'corn' in the UK). These days they are re-used in different ways - often as a Wetherspoons!
'Music Hall' is what is called 'Vaudeville' in the US. Obviously it's now used for a wider variety of entertainments.
Is Yorkshire in Leeds? *sigh* The clue is in the name- it's a county (or technically 4 counties, but not knowing this can be forgiven). Leeds is the biggest city in West Yorkshire, so 'Leeds is in Yorkhire' not the other way around.
I really miss living in Leeds. I remember going to some pretty awesome concerts in Roundhay Park. Madonna , Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones, back in the 80's and 90's. It's definitely not all museums and has changed so much since I lived there too.
Kirkstall Abbey was my adventure playground when growing up. I never understood why every weekend people traveled from far and wide to visit what I saw as a climbing frame.
OK.. i watched this and while i cannot blame you for not knowing about Leeds (Your american you don't know past new York). Previous comments cover 1 or 2 topics this is the real history of The Leeds you saw.
Leeds is a city in the county of West Yorkshire. Yorkshire is so large its divided into 4 quadrants (north/south/east/west). A county is similar to US states. with limited local government above British/Federal government.
Temple Newsome and Harewood house are historic manor houses built in Jacobian/Edwardian era`s around the time america was founded. They were the lords of hundreds of acers of land ( 1 in the north and 1 in the south of Leeds), they ruled the lands they owned, and peasants worked the land. Its comparable to american plantations. 1 family ruled and all others worked the land.
The corn exchange was as its name suggest`s a trading hub for corn/grain/wheat and all other farming supply`s in the Victorian era. in the 1990`s/2000`s this was an Uber nightclub for the rave scene. As the rave died, it became a boutique shopping center that you see in this southerners take on our historic city.
Kirkstall Abbey (about 200 yards from my house) Was one of the catholic monastery's that trained monks up until the reformation (The time that king henry the viii (8th) destroyed for his own religion, now known as the COE (church of England) the forbearer of modern Christianity. The reason it is a ruin is because they tried to remove all traces of Catholicism in the 1700`s. by destroying any catholic church/abbey, renamed to cathedrals in the late 1700`s early 1800`s.
And finally Roundhay park is the largest open air park in the north of England, and only 2nd in the whole of the UK. (Fun fact, Michael Jackson performed here in 1988 to over 90,000 people) the largest gathering outside of Glastonbury festival.
(I`m born an bread Leeds. cut me i bleed Leeds united FC white)
My brother lives in Leeds, I love it. It’s one of my favourite cities to visit, second only to Manchester. I even had my hen do (bachelorette party) there 😂
I live on the outskirts of Leeds (about 7 miles away).The Corn Exchange did actually deal with corn in the olden days, hence it's name. The Grand Theatre, City Varieties Theatre, city museum, Victoria Quarters are all in the city centre. The Royal Armouries & medical museum are about a 10 min walk from centre. Most of the others like Kirkstall Abbey, Abbey museum, Temple Newsam etc are few miles outside of the city centre. The Yorkshire Sculpture park is more Wakefield. Leeds is in the county of West Yorkshire.... ive visited most of these. I think there's only Harewood house I've not been to
kirkstal is the perfect picnic spot in summer. n a lovley cannal walk into city center.
Yorkshire is what you'd call a State. We call it a County.
As Las Vegas is in the State of Nevada, Leeds is in the County of Yorkshire
Leeds & a lot of cities are in YORKSHIRE!!!!! There is North, West, South & East Yorkshire. Leeds is in West Yorkshire.
Hello Tyler, the first ever film, moving image, was made in Leeds in 1888. Hollywood should say Thank you, Leeds. The Royal Armouries Museum is the UK,s national museum of the subject. Leeds was bombing in the Second World War as it was an industrial power house. And - Yorkshire is (the premier!) a county of England.
Yorkshire is just the county, so Leeds is in the county of Yorkshire & The Humber and is mainly a historical area. Temple Newsam and the other buildings/parks are basically just national parks, they are open to the public.
The Best Things in Leeds
Number 1: The outbound line (N)
Number 2: The outbound line (S)
Nice to see Leeds featured the best of Yorkshire ask Alexander Skaarsgard and Chris Pine😊
I was born in Kirkstall, Leeds (short walk from the Abbey House museum). So glad that was number 1 on the list
I go to uni there and ye can confirm its pretty nice
Edit: 18:30 ish, Leeds is in Yorkshire
Take a look at what happened in London on June 1st!
About time England took a stand.