Records of Leeds: Adel Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1868-1979

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Records of Leeds: Adel Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends 1868-1979

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GB 206 Leeds University Library

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Leeds: Adel Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends.

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This Meeting was settled in 1928 as an offshoot of Carlton Hill Meeting. It formed part of the recently created Leeds Monthly Meeting and became a full Preparative Meeting in 1938. Land given by Hannah Baker at Adel was used to create a burial ground in 1868, after the closure of Leeds Meadow Lane burial ground. A keeper's cottage, with a small Meeting House attached, was built in 1872 and it was this building which Adel Meeting used for worship. The Meeting flourished, but plans for enlarging t...