What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
In the late 1800s a man called John Waddington had just completed his apprenticeship as a printer and was full of aspirations and he decided that he would like to start his own business. John had a friend called Wilson Barrett who was an actor/manager at the Grand Theatre in
John Cooke was a local printer in Meadow Lane, Leeds, and he had a son born on 4 July 1842 who was named Alfred Battye Cooke who throughout his life would only be known as Alf. Alf’s early years were spent as a newsboy and then working in the family printing
Two young men who were employed in the Engineering Labourites at the Yorkshire College visited a soap works in 1897 where they saw a number of girls wrapping the bars of soap by hand. Andrew Forbes and Frederick Grover thought that a mechanical device could be provided to carry out
The year is 1844 and on the evening of 9 and 10 June there was great excitement on the streets of Leeds where there was a clash between the Borough Police and the Privates of the 70th Regiment of Foot who at this time were stationed in the town. It
Continuing our series on the bridges over the River Aire and canals, we now leave Crown Point Bridge and walk south along the towpath until we come to our next and final bridge the Hunslet and South Accommodation Bridge. Very little information has been found about this road and bridge.
Situated between Middleton and Belle Isle is a large hill at the base of which the Gosforth Colliery was situated. A tunnel had been driven under the hill, originally 1400 yards long before the steam engine was installed, then a vertical shaft of 80 yards deep then another 700 yards
Charles was the son of James and Clara Young who lived in Heath Grove in Beeston and the husband of Matilda Young. He saw service in the Royal Navy in the First World War aboard minesweepers and in civilian life he was employed as a tram driver by Leeds City
In the normal order of things after the Victoria Bridge in Neville Street we would cover Leeds Bridge but having done an extended article on this bridge, in December 2021 and January 2022, we can now go across to Bridge End and down Dock Street and on towards Crown Point
Having completed Wellington Bridge (June) and Monk Bridge (July) our next bridge is a short walk down the Leeds & Liverpool Canal towpath to the Canal Basin where we will find Victoria Bridge situated. The planning and construction of this bridge was a very long and drawn out affair that
Continuing our series looking at the bridges that cross the River Aire and canals in Leeds, our next bridge down river from Wellington Bridge is Monk Bridge on the Whitehall Road. This bridge derived its name from an area called Monk Pits, an area of meadowland to the north of