Day: 29 September 2024

‘Battle of Holbeck Moor’ commemmorated with Blue Plaque

A new Leeds Civic Trust Blue Plaque has been unveiled to record the events of 1936 when 30,000 Leeds residents rallied against the British Union of Fascists on Holbeck Moor. On 27 September 1936 Sir Oswald Mosley and 1,000 Blackshirts of the British Union of Fascists marched from the city