Catalogue description Beckett Park Library Collection

Collection mainly focuses on City of Leeds Training College and Carnegie Physical Training College. There are handbooks and prospectuses of the colleges dating from 1913 to 1970's. Material relating to early Carnegie College and college trip to Munich Olympics in 1938. College magazine 'The Owl' 1930's. Donations from alumni from various periods. Military items from 1940's when college was an Army Training Centre

This artificial collection is based around material of historical interest collected by the Library at Beckett Park Campus

Ongoing

The City of Leeds Training College was formed in 1907. In 1913 a purpose built training college was opened in the grounds of the former Kirkstall Grange estate bought from the Beckett family. In 1933 Carnegie Hall was built on the same estate, to house the Carnegie College of Physical Education. In 1968 the training college then called City of Leeds College of Education was merged with Carnegie College and was renamed City of Leeds and Carnegie College. The College merged with Leeds Polytechnic in 1976. In 1992 Leeds Polytechnic became Leeds Metropolitan University. Library housed in the James Graham Building since 1912