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Archive Contributors

Thank you to the following people, or their families, who have kindly donated items to the Leeds Children's Theatre archive.
(The names were added in no particular order)
  • Elsie Brown & family
  • Bill Fawcett
  • Kathleen Ward
  • Edna Barwell & family
  • Mary & Colin Martin
  • Grace Milburn
  • Pauline Mower
  • Terry Fannon (Photography)
  • Ann Hudson
  • Judith & Barry Unwin 
  • Angie Legge (Photography) 
  • ​Robert Clarke 
  • ​Dan Dainter (Photography)




  • Edward Lakeland
  • Jane Curtin
  • Jemma Leckenby
  • Freda McHale & family
  • Susan Elliott​
  • Karen Waddicor
  • Ian Cornick (Photography)
  • Ian Goodison
  • Alex Plygawko 
  • ​Mavis Heaton
  • ​Peter Waddicor (Photography)
Thank you to the following people who have taken part in the digitisation process & creation of this electronic archive
  • Mary Martin
  • Karen Waddicor
Thank you to the following people who have helped us source additional resources useful to our archive
  • Anne Flanagan (Syracuse, New York) who told us about a collection of Albert Wainwright set & costume designs on the Wolfsonian Museum website (Miami, Florida). 
Originally the archive was funded by a Millennium Festival Awards For All grant back in 2000, which allowed the Leeds Children's Theatre Archive Group to purchase archive software, a PC, scanner etc. Although all of the original equipment is now obsolete the work continues thanks to Leeds Children's Theatre members using their own equipment to create and maintain this online archive.
Celebrating 90 years of Leeds Children's Theatre (1935-2025)
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"The aim of Leeds Children's Theatre is to produce plays suitable for children,
​the players to be either children or adults or both, as is necessary for the production"
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This was drawn into the constitution in April 1937
​and it remains the aim of Leeds Children's Theatre today 
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