This was originally known as the Leeds Friends Sunday School and met at Mill Street, Bank, from 1869 until 1874. It was run by John Hall Thorpe and T. Benson Pease Ford, and began classes for adults in a relatively small way. A First Day School was created at the same time. After moving to the Miners Institute on York Road however, it soon became the largest Adult School in Leeds. It was known as York Road Friends Adult School until 1890, when the school moved into new premises funded by the Harvey family, in Pontefract Lane, off York Road. Its new name was Pontefract Lane Friends Adult School. It had 404 members, both men and women, in 1902.
From the guide to the Records of Leeds: Pontefract Lane Friends Adult School, 1869-1983, (Leeds University Library)
