What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
A stretch of Dewsbury Road between Hunslet Hall Road and Jack Lane will be closed to traffic overnight between 8pm and 6am for eight days starting on Thursday 8 August 2019. A diversion will be in operation taking traffic via Tunstall Road, Hunslet Distributor Road and Jack Lane. There will
Residents in Beeston Hill and Holbeck are being offered help and support to access permanent jobs working in the Estates and Facilities team in the NHS in Leeds. There are a wide range of jobs offering: flexible hours full training excellent staff benefits career development opportunities good rates of pay
South Leeds Archers marked their 20th anniversary year with a free open day at Cockburn School. Adults and children beginners were invited to practice at short-distance targets with beginners’ bows while club members displayed their ability with shots from up to 100 yards. The event aimed to increase exposure for
Edward Woffenden, Private 15/1003, 15th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment Leeds 11 was, and still is, essentially Holbeck and Beeston. It had been a prosperous area during the 19th Century, with a lot of manufacturing, including John Marshall’s Mill and Matthew Murray’s Foundry, but by the beginning of the 20th Century
Leeds Art Walk is a free monthly tour of exhibitions, arts spaces and places of interest in Leeds, and this month it’s coming to Beeston. The walk starts on Wednesday (7 August 2019) at 5:30pm at 45 Garnet Terrace, where Kerri Jefferis and Sophie Chapman will introduce you to their collaborative
Beeston boxer Ismail Khan’s latest professional bout will take place on Friday 6 September 2019 at Elland Road. The announcement comes after Khan’s previous fight, scheduled for July 13, was cancelled due to another fighter pulling out. The opponent and specific details of the September card have not yet been
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 29 July 2019: Electricity substation to car park Stadium Gate Parkside Industrial Estate Middleton Grove Beeston Leeds LS11 5BX
A successful gardening competition has added the icing to the cake after work by Leeds City Council to make tenants’ gardens more manageable on the Millshaw Road estate in Beeston. As well as the winners: Gypsy Morton (first), Laura Holmes (second) and Karina Ishaq (third) everyone who took part received
Construction work to create an extra 550 spaces to Elland Road park and ride has started. The Council’s Connecting Leeds programme is set to create an additional 2,000 park and ride spaces across the city by March 2021. The work on Elland Road marks the start of increasing car parking
The Bee Friends Afternoon marked its first birthday with a party and a cake at their regular Thursday afternoon session at The Bridge Café in Cross Flatts Park last week (25 July 2019). Whilst the afternoons are aimed at older people with a learning disability, it is open to anyone