What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Residents on the Cottingley Hall estate with an interest in flowers, gardening or vegetables are being encouraged to help spruce up the area by joining the Cottingley in Bloom group. The group’s next meeting will be on June 18 in the Cottingley Towers community room at 2pm. All welcome to
Once upon a time, some forty-odd years ago, there was an expanse of housing to the south of Leeds. Mostly built to expand existing villages from 1905 onwards, this area looked little different to many others across and around the city, writes Alison Neale. Back then, town planners worked under
Cottingley Summer Fayre will be taking place this Saturday, 19th May. The event runs from 11am to 3:00pm at Cottingley Primary School. The Fayre has been organised by TRAC, Cottingley Primary School, Health For All and The Church In Cottingley. It has been made possible by Leeds City Council. Download
As ‘master’ of the website for the Beeston Hill Residents’ Voice group, today I mothballed the pages, writes local resident Alison Neale. At the start of 2012 the residents’ association ceased to be. Attendance had dwindled week by week and officials frequently outnumbered residents until, for a variety of reasons,
The date and time for this year’s Middleton Gala has been agreed. Put Saturday 14 July, from 11am to 2pm in your diaries now!. The gala will be held on the grounds of Middleton Primary School, and the field behind it. The group organising the gala, which include representatives from
In case you missed it, south Leeds was on telly last night! Channel Four’s The Secret Millionaire programme visited the area, spending time with Yvonne Crowther on the Cardinal Estate and the Dazl Dance group in Middleton. If you missed it, you can watch it again here.As usual, it was
[slideshow] Lance Corporal Adam Blackburn, 29, of Middleton, has sent us this good news story: I’ve been serving in the regular Army for nine years now, serving in the Royal signals and based in York with 2nd Signal regiment (2 Sigs). I’ve served all over the world, including Afghanistan. I am due
Very few of us have not lost a family member or a friend to cancer and so many of us have reasons to be grateful to Macmillan Nurses for their care and support, writes Andrew Gill of Middleton Railway Trust. In special memory of Kay, the daughter of one of our
South Leeds Life reader Alan Shaw has written this personal and thoughtful guest post: I have come to the conclusion that humans as a species are basically selfish, i.e. they only think of themselves and do not automatically think of others, either those of the same species or of others
The ‘store wars’ saga between Asda and Tesco is hotting up. Both supermarket giants are bidding to build stores in the Old Lane area of Beeston. Due to planning laws it’s understood only one of the stores would be allowed to be built. Yesterday South Leeds Life reported how pupils