What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
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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
Think of the White Rose Shopping Centre and perhapos the last thing you’d think of is keeping fit. However, that’s what the bosses at the centre are encouraging us to do – walk around the mall and get fit in a warm and safe environment. Here’s a poster for the
[slideshow]Guest blogger Christopher Nykiel posts about an Oscars ceremony with a difference at the Mariners Resource Centre, off Dewsbury Road. Mariners provides a place to socialise, learn new skills/hobbies, and get advice and support… So then, if there are awards ceremonies seemingly for everybody and everything these days, why did
We’ve been searching YouTube for some of your viral videos in South Leeds. Here’s a selection… Check out this interesting look at the community spirit and some of the issues in Holbeck. It was posted about a year ago but is well worth a look if you haven’t caught it already: