What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Positive photographs of our communities can sometimes be difficult to find – which is why the Looking Good Beeston and Holbeck website is an absolute corker. The site is there to highlight positive photography in Beeston and Holbeck – and the project (which is supported by us here at South
Are you aged over 60? Would you like a lovely lunch and to meet some friends? The good folks at Holbeck Elderly Aid may have the answer. The group runs a lunch club at St Matthew’s Community Centre on Tuesdays, 12.15pm to 1.15pm. Admission is £3.50, which includes soup, a meal, pudding
The Middleton Life local history project took a break for the half-term holidays this week – but will be back next week with a trip to the Thackray Medical Museum. Just to keep you going, here’s a fact about Middleton to keep you going: Did you know that in Anglo Saxon
Come and meet the folks behind South Leeds Life blog at the next of our regular community news cafes on Monday! The cafes are your chance to tell your stories, let us know what’s going on and – if you’re interested – we can help you to write your own articles
This year’s YOUTH Awards Youth were held at the South Leeds Hub, attended by ward members Angela Gabriel and Adam Ogilvie. St. Clair Brown, of Leeds council’s youth service, sends us some details below…
“The terraces are still there, though for how long I don’t know. Some are boarded up and some have gone. The flats by the Moor have been razed, adding to the depopulation of the area and shops, pubs and workplaces continue to vanish. The Lord Nelson on Springwell St is
Hot on the heels of the new BOKWA sessions for adults at the Hunslet Club on Tuesday nights comes the launch of Zumba classes on Thursday nights. Zumba is the exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance fitness experience that everyone wants to be a part of. It blends red-hot music and contagious steps
One of the most recent photographs shared onto our online Flickr photo group pool really got us thinking here at South Leeds Life. It was kindly shared on our pool by a reader called ‘Westow‘ and shows how the four children of William and Esther Pinder of Holbeck sadly passed away on
Plans by Leeds City Council to undertake major improvements to sport, recreation and community facilities in Middleton have been handed a major boost with the announcement of a successful funding bid to Sport England. Councillors previously approved proposals in November to invest £740k to redevelop Middleton Leisure Centre in to
I was recently talking to my cousin, George Peacock, about his recollections of old Holbeck. George emigrated to the USA around 50 years ago and now lives in Florida. He was born in Chelsea Street, Holbeck, in the area where the multi-storey flats were built in the 1960s and which