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The return of the Bayeux Tapestry to England after more than 900 years has been proving very popular, with locals and visitors alike forming long queues in London to take in the embroidery in all of its historic splendour. With the tapestry back in the country until July 2027, we’ve been asking Leeds locals who or what they would like to see on a ‘Leeds Tapestry’, should one ever be commissioned and created! What would you say?

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00:00They've got lots of great architecture, lots of great history in textiles.
00:05I don't think we sell that enough. We should have a textile museum. We don't have that.
00:12The arts, you know, we have brilliant theatre, brilliant opera, brilliant ballet.
00:18We have, yeah, all sorts. Yeah, that kind of thing.
00:22Well, I feel like our music culture is really the best thing that we've got going for us here.
00:26You know, the nightclubs, the smaller venues, like we've got wharf chambers that's been here for a while.
00:31Maybe some fallen soldiers that are not here anymore would be really cool, right?
00:35If I was to see Tapestry in Leeds, I'd want to see like the olden day streets and like, oh,
00:39it was like maybe Christmas time, like with all the outfits they used to wear.
00:43Or even if it was like Halloween or just some kind of mass event.
00:46Like what Halloween was like, because a lot of people were religious there.
00:49Yeah, it would have been really cool to see. And then like, to have like, what buildings would you have?
00:52I'd probably have like, probably even the train station in the background and everything and like the river from there.
00:58Yeah, that would be really good to see on there as well.
01:01Yeah.
01:01If Leeds had its own tapestry, I think I'd like to see maybe the culture of Leeds, such as famous
01:07people that have come out of Leeds.
01:09Maybe even some of the colleges, universities, like some plaques, like small plaques, it doesn't have to be big, maybe
01:15small plaques on there, something like that.
01:17But just something to show, like something that you're proud of to be in this city.
01:22Corn Exchange is just amazing, really, isn't it? It's just like the heart of all the culture in Leeds, I
01:27think, really.
01:28It's a big alternative hub as well, isn't it?
01:30What's going on?

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