Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn - Woodhouse Square
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Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn - Woodhouse Square
Image: © Betty Longbottom Taken: 23 Apr 2007
Mayor of Leeds in 1857 and 1858 - the statue was erected in 1867. Queen Victoria stayed at his house (Woodsley House, later Fairbairn House, in Clarendon Road) when she came to open Leeds Town Hall in September 1858. On that occasion she also knighted Peter Fairbairn
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Image Location
Latitude
53.801932
Longitude
-1.556916