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Harewood House - A stately home with museum and art gallery set in magnificent grounds, with a large exotic bird collection. Details of events and attractions with an online tour.
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society - Information about the canal, the route, renovation programme, leisure access, and photographs. Also membership details of the society.
Middleton Railway - Has a claim to be the oldest railway in the world. Information on its history and preservation. Details of timetable, publications, and joining as a volunteer.
Emsleys Farmshop and Visitor Centre - Offers a large selection of bedding plants and hanging baskets, bulbs and seeds. Also offers a tour of this working farm near Yeadon, N of Leeds.
Granary Wharf - Information on this renovated area in the arches under Leeds Railway station - studios for craftspeople and artists, the Festival Market, function space. News of events and contact details.
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It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." 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Jackson Brown In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. -- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. 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Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. 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