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Alf Cooke, Weetwood Hall, Leeds, and Daniel Foxcroft blue plaque

Leeds, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom

Alf Cooke, Weetwood Hall, Leeds, and Daniel Foxcroft blue plaque

Weetwood Hall. Rebuilt by Daniel Foxcroft in 1625, his family owned this former Kirkstall Abbey estate for over a century. Later owners and tenants included members of the wealthy Denison, Oates, Marshall and Beckett families. The Printer Alf Cooke lived here 1889-1902. It was a University of Leeds

women's hall of residence 1919-1991.

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