What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
So here we are steaming into December which means that it’s almost a year since we moved into The Holbeck. What a difference a year makes! It has been so wonderful to be welcomed into this space and to be able to share it with others. As a way of
Northern Monk Brewery have teamed up with Holbeck Together once again to create a photographic calendar celebrating people’s lives in Holbeck The 2020 True North calendar focuses on the stories and memories of individuals within the Holbeck community. Photographer and Northern Monk Patron, Mark Newton, spent some time with the
Voluntary Action Leeds has now completed a full refurbishment of it’s premises on Lupton Street, Hunslet; restoring the former Leeds Steelworks office back to it’s former glory. Now called ‘Stringer House,’ the building was originally built in 1913 by Scott Walker Ltd, as the offices for Leeds Steelworks. By this
Parks in Leeds will prove all the world’s a stage when they host unique pop-up performances of Shakespeare’s classics thanks to a new project supported by Leeds Inspired. Leeds theatre company Front Room Productions will give some of The Bard’s most beloved scenes a contemporary twist during the free, open
The South Leeds running community put on quite a show with the second annual Bah Humbug 10k trail race on Sunday (8 December 2019). The sell out event saw 600 runners from across Leeds and beyond tackle tough and at times slippery course on trails through Middleton Park, with the
Festive bin collection dates in Leeds are set to change over the Christmas and New Year period. Bin collections will continue as usual up until and including Saturday 21 December 2019. For the two weeks after that, Sunday 22 December 2019 and Sunday 5 January 2020, bins will be emptied
The concert room in The Holbeck club was packed on Monday 25 November 2019 for the launch of a campaign by Leeds Citizens called: South Bank For South Leeds. As the redevelopment of parts of Holbeck and Hunslet close the river kicks on and the city centre moves southwards into
Leeds Corinthians RUFC hosted Hemsworth this weekend (7 December 2019) and were looking for a comprehensive victory to maintain their position at the top of Yorkshire 3. Corinthians began the game well and tries inside the first 20 minutes from Ben Walker, Michael Tuke and Max Patten meant the game
The popular Christmas Lantern Festival is back in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston, on Friday (13 December 2019) for its 7th year. Join hundreds of people from across South Leeds for an evening of music, carols, arts and craft, animal petting, hot food and drink, thousands of lights and lanterns –
Each week we publish lists of planning applications related to LS10 and LS11 published on on the Leeds City Council website. The following applications were validated in the week beginning 2 December 2019: Alterations to remove disabled parking spaces and replace with a sloping entrance to store Unit 2,