What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This week is the last week of the school summer holidays and it’s looking like a very busy week at Skelton Grange! Tuesday and Wednesday we have Bushcraft Adventure for 8-12 year olds (places still available): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bushcraft-adventure-with-skelton-grange-for-8-12-yrs-tickets-17567380508 We also have a special Bat Walk on Wednesday evening: https://www.facebook.com/ events/423225947878700/ Thursday
Hunslet Hawks scored an important victory against a lacklustre Whitehaven this afternoon (31 August 2015) in the Kingstone Press Championship Shield at The Recreation Ground. Hunslet led from the first minute to the hooter as they built on last week’s win at the London Broncos. They are building valuable momentum
I received the following letter this week from Canada: Dear Ken, My name is Kathleen Bok. My maiden name was Hobson. Since 1960 I have lived in Canada. I am the daughter of the Hunslet Carr teacher, Harold Hobson, whom you quite frequently mention in your writings. Recently you have
Hunslet Hawks meet with representatives of the Ultras supporters group. 28 August 2015 Following recent incidents in the Phoenix Bar after home games a group of supporters, known as the Ultras, approached the Club with a view to having a “clear the air” meeting. The meeting was productive and the
Beeston is blossoming even more thanks to an innovative new partnership between Beeston in Bloom, local businesses, and the socially-minded Instaplanta company based in Hunslet Moor. Instaplanta are a Yorkshire-wide company, now newly established in south Leeds and led by a local team. They’ve agreed with the Council’s Highways Department
We are approaching another Bank Holiday Monday, but neither my Other Half nor I are particularly looking forward to it. It’s not the British bank holiday’s poor reputation for bad weather that’s putting us off. I’m a self employed ‘freelancer’ and my Other Half works in an ‘out of hours’
Local people are preparing their entries for the sixth Middleton Park Craft, Flower and Produce Show on Sunday 13 September 2015! Alongside the usual veg, fruit, flowers, home produce and arts and crafts will be a new category of Flower Pot People. Local brownies have already created theirs, to go
The Inner South Community Committee will be holding a workshop for residents to come together and discuss things for young people to do and how do we better engage with them. As well as the workshop and formal committee meeting there will be taster sessions where you can try out
According to the bible Jesus fed the 5,000 with loaves and fishes and today parishioners at St Mary’s in Beeston are offering burgers to football crowds. The start of the football season has seen a return of the St Mary’s Match Day Burger stand at the corner of Wesley Street.
Residents of south Leeds are invited to a free community meal to be held on the last Sunday of each month, in the Watsonia Pavilion in Cross Flatts Park. Members of St Luke’s and St Mary’s churches, along with other local residents, are organising to put on the free two