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Captain James Walker Foreman
Collections, Engagement, Featured, Leeds City Museum, Legacy project: Commemorating WW1 2015-2018, Social History, Work experienceLeeds-born Captain James Walker Foreman flew 637 hours on the front line in World War One, and survived a bullet wound from below.

Frank Kidson and the Sounds of Our City
Collections, Social HistorySounds of Our City, the wonderful, shiny new exhibition has just opened at Abbey House Museum, looking at music over the centuries in Leeds.

Gertrude Bray ‘The Home Specialist’
(OLD) 20th century, (OLD) Abbey House Museum, (OLD) Archive, (OLD) Behind the Scenes, (OLD) Collections, (OLD) Leeds History, (OLD) Local History, (OLD) VolunteeringGertrude Bray was a female builder in Leeds in the early 1900s.