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Notable facts about Roundhay
- The word 'Roundhay' comes from 'Rond-haeg', a round hunting enclosure or deer park. Roundhay doesn't appear in the Domesday Book of 1086, but seems to have been formed soon afterwards, the first mention being in about 1153. It was formerly a hunting park for the DeLacy family of Pontefract Castle. Later on coal and iron ore were mined and a smelting furnace is recorded in 1295.
- In 1872 the Roundhay Park estate was purchased by the City of Leeds and opened as a public park by His Royal Highness Prince Arthur.
- A suburb began to develop around Lidgett Park and development accelerated in 1848 by the provision of a horse-drawn public omnibus service between Leeds and Roundhay Park, then a horse-drawn tram, then on 11 November 1891 the first public electric tram service, which by 1894 provided a quarter-hourly service from 6am.
- Roundhay holds the honour of being the location of the world's oldest surviving film, Roundhay Garden Scene, which is thought to have been shot on 14 October 1888 by Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange.
| Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 British short film directed by inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second and is the earliest surviving motion picture. This historical film is surrounded with tragedy and mystery. On October 24, 1888, only ten days after being filmed in Roundhay Garden Scene, Sarah Robinson Whitley, Le Prince's mother-in-law, died. On September 16, 1890, while about to patent his invention in London and perform his first official public exhibition in New York, Louis Le Prince mysteriously vanished in a train between Dijon & Paris. In 1902, two years after testifying in the Equity 6928 brief, Alphonse Le Prince, featured actor and elder son of Louis, was found shot dead in New York. | Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge filmed by Louis le Prince from Hicks the Ironmongers. The Leeds Bridge film was one of three films found in the single-lens camera, first the Rounday Garden scene at Oakwood Grange (20 frames), then the Leeds Bridge traffic scene (20 frames) and lastly a sequence of an accordion player (19 frames plus a damaged 20th) which has not yet been restored nor remastered. The location of the accordion player is uncertain; it could be Leeds or Paris. The recording date is probably 1888. An amateur remastering of the first 17 frames is available on YouTube. |