Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.
Roman numerals
System of using letters to represent numbers, an idea that was developed by the Phoenicians two thousand years before the founding of the city of Rome.
Rood screen
Screen separating the chancel from the nave, typically in late medieval Christion churches.
Round Foundry
Engineering works off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds in Yorkshire, built for Fenton, Murray and Wood.
Roundwood
Roundwood is a wooded peninsula on the River Fal in Cornwall, where there is evidence of occupation and settlement since at least the Iron Age.
Roy of the Rovers
British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers.
Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester
Exhibition in Old Trafford, Manchester, England in 1887 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's accession.
Royd House
Designed by the architect Edgar Wood, and considered to be one of the most advanced examples of early 20th-century domestic architecture.
Ruby Cycle Company
British motorcycle manufacturer, active from 1909 until 1922.
Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale popularly associated with Germany, one of those collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. It tells of an imp able to spin straw into gold, and the price he demands for his service.
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