Records of Leeds : Pontefract Lane Friends Adult School. 1869-1983.
Related Entities
There are 2 Entities related to this resource.
Society of Friends
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s50g0g (corporateBody)
The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...
Leeds: Pontefract Lane Friends Adult School.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s66r5 (corporateBody)
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 Har...
