What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The chance to find yourself on a cinema screen near you comes to the Hunslet Club on Sunday 18th November at 1:30pm at the Hunslet Club where there will be open workshop auditions for a part in a new feature film directed by Yann Demange. For this feature they are
It’s Wednesday lunchtime and that can only mean one thing! Your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick on local blogs, websites and Facebook. Just a reminder that the next South Leeds Life group meeting is on Monday 19th November, 2pm at St Luke’s Church on Malvern Road, Beeston. Come
Police are appealing for witnesses to a robbery at the Carphone Warehouse on Low Road, Hunslet on the 12 November. At around 5:45pm a group of three or four masked men entered the store and threatened staff before taking a number of mobile phones and Playstations. The suspects then fled
Christmas Fair Saturday 17th November 10am – 3pm Belle Isle URC in South Leeds Nesfield Road, Leeds LS10 3LG Make your Christmas shopping fun….. Santa, cakes, games, face painting and refreshments as well as handcrafted and gift shopping at great prices. Handbags, jewellery, sweets, cards, baby goods, skincare, prints, jams
In week two of our South Leeds Life Community Correspondents course we learned how to take photos to accompany articles and then went to Leeds City Museum to put what we had learned into practice. There are a lot of interesting exhibits about the history of Leeds and I was particularly interested in the
Last Tuesday, we had a visit to the museum in the centre of Leeds. The building started as The Mechanics Institute, then it was known as The Civic Theatre. When it opened as the City Museum, I went to see what it was like, and enjoyed it. The trip with
We went to the Leeds museums on Tuesday 6 of vember. We took lots of photos – it was a good day! We took lots of photos – and I took lots of sport photos of well-known men and woman. It was a very good place to go but I needed all
A community group in South Leeds have taken inspiration from history and constructed a new stone circle to stand up to the tests of time! The stones at Skelton Grange Environment Centre, in Stourton, also contain carvings of local wildlife, including a heron and a kestrel, and will provide a
Democracy site Fix My Street is a great way of reporting problems to the local council. We found this report from local resident Bruce Davies on Fix My Street about dumped rubbish in Beeston Hill: “It’s in a back alley between allotments. “It is not a road accessible by car
A lifelong drifter who originally came from Holbeck has made his home on a small island off the west coast of Scotland. For six years Christopher Ellis has lived in virtual isolation, being the only inhabitant of the island and rarely returning to the mainland. Every winter Christopher journeys on