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This sporting life: City’s finest take centre stage in exhibition
Gymnastics group from 3rd Leeds North East St. Wilfrid's Boy Scouts who won first 1st prize at the Imperial Scoutcraft Exhibition, Birmingham, 1913 are two of the items on display in the exhibition. Picture courtesy of Leeds Museums and Galleries
sporting success and standout performances in drama and entertainment provide the themes for a new exhibition in Leeds.
Among the items on show from the worlds of sport and stage at Abbey House Museum will be medals and trophies won by Leeds-born swimmer Doris Storey, who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and set a new world record in 1938 for the women’s 200-metre breaststroke.
One black and white photograph, pictured, shows the gymnastics group from 3rd Leeds North East St Wilfrid’s Boy Scouts who won first prize at the Imperial Scoutcraft Exhibition, Birmingham, 1913.
Footage from the Yorkshire Film Archive shows the New Zealand All Blacks playing at Headingley in 1947.
Further archive film footage comes from the Rolling Stones’ concert at Roundhay Park in 1982 and the 1963 film Billy Liar starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, which features a famous scene shot on the steps of Leeds Town Hall.
It has been designed by Leeds Metropolitan University design students Leigh Durham, Lucy Dunks, Jessica Hellawell, Molly Waterhouse and Dennis Chu, who won a competition to work alongside Leeds Museums and Galleries curators.
It will run until December 30.
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