page_title: Chapeltown, Leeds
section_title: Carnival
hierarchical_section_title: Chapeltown, Leeds / Culture and environment / Carnival
caption_attribution_description: Carnival procession in Chapeltown, Leeds, 27 August 2007
context_page_description: Chapeltown is a suburb of north-east Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Leeds City Council Ward of Chapel Allerton. It is approximately one mile north of Leeds city centre. Chapeltown was the scene of rioting, with disturbances in 1975, 1981 and 1987.
context_section_description: Every August bank holiday weekend the area hosts the Leeds Carnival, second only in size to London's Notting Hill Carnival, however Leeds Carnival started in 1941 and predates that of Notting Hill.
  Arthur France, a Leeds University student from Saint Kitts helped to organise the first West Indian Carnival in Britain in Leeds in 1967. That year Vicki Celto was the first Carnival Queen for Leeds in a costume titled "Sun Goddess".
caption: Carnival procession in Chapeltown, Leeds, 27 August 2007
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