Janet Douglas, local historian, gave this talk in the Headingley library on 15.4.07

When you look around Headingley today most of what you see is the product of the 19th century, and more particularly dates from the period after 1830 when Headingley became the premier suburb of Leeds.

What I want to conjure up for you this afternoon is a different vision of Headingley so I need you to engage in an act of historical imagination and remove from your mental pictures, all those buildings and roads which were constructed during the process of suburbanisation.

The argument of my talk is that underpinning many of these later developments is a pre-suburban pattern of space which shaped what was to come later.

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