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polar explorer Meanwoodside used to play, like their counterparts in smaller today. Meanwood was duly held

The sun shone in Meanwood in Leeds for a plaque unveiling ceremony in honor of its most famous adopted son who died under very different.

Captain Lawrence Oates fell in the history of leaving the store of Captain Scott in the Antarctic snowstorm with the farewell: ". I'm going outside and may take some time "

lower than the rest of the polar group, who was ill and slow down and Scott described his sacrifice as "the act of a brave man and an English gentleman." We must to trust the word of Scott, who was accused of creating his own version noble project doomed in the days before he and the rest of the group also died. But Oates certainly from a family of Northern interesting.

His grandfather lived in Meanwoodside Edward Oates, and demolished a house whose grounds are now a favorite park along the Meanwood Beck, Hollies related to neighbors and forming a green corridor valley's agricultural past Meanwood and Headingley urban Ridge, which is near the center of Leeds. The gardens contain the remains of American garden, originally a symbol of support for the back, the rebel colonists, as the arch erected by the Gascoigne family in Partington park on the outskirts of Leeds, which is still standing with his voice simple inscription:

North America."

Captain Oates was a professional soldier, wounded in the Boer War of 1911-1912 and taking Scott's expedition because of his knowledge of horses, plus a £ 1,000 donation to the cause. He was critical of the ignorance of his commanding animal, calling it a "colossal" and the description of the horses purchased for the expedition as a "miserable old fogies."

Scott, in turn considered a pessimistic age Oates terrible, but it was certainly effective as a virtuous symbol for future generations. Take president Meanwood Village Association, BeWell Peter, who was in the presentation, organized by the blue plaque scheme of Leeds Civic Trust:

lived in Meanwood in Leeds for over 70 years old and a college have always thought Captain Oates, like our own local hero. Especially when my wife Christine and I bought Ivy Cottage in 1959, and was once owned by Captain Oates and his brother, though not really live there. Detailed in the facts of our house.

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