What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
South Leeds Life started off in November 2010 with six people sat in room working out how WordPress works, choosing a name and a page format. 700 posts and 60,000 page views later, eight people were back in the same room to form a community group that can build on
Hello South Leeds! Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making the area tick on blogs and websites in the area. “In only its second year the dedicated and enthusiastic In Bloom group is making a clear impression in Holbeck through it’s wide ranging environmental activities. The organisational abilities of its members
Once upon a time, some forty-odd years ago, there was an expanse of housing to the south of Leeds. Mostly built to expand existing villages from 1905 onwards, this area looked little different to many others across and around the city, writes Alison Neale. Back then, town planners worked under
As ‘master’ of the website for the Beeston Hill Residents’ Voice group, today I mothballed the pages, writes local resident Alison Neale. At the start of 2012 the residents’ association ceased to be. Attendance had dwindled week by week and officials frequently outnumbered residents until, for a variety of reasons,
The date and time for this year’s Middleton Gala has been agreed. Put Saturday 14 July, from 11am to 2pm in your diaries now!. The gala will be held on the grounds of Middleton Primary School, and the field behind it. The group organising the gala, which include representatives from
In case you missed it, south Leeds was on telly last night! Channel Four’s The Secret Millionaire programme visited the area, spending time with Yvonne Crowther on the Cardinal Estate and the Dazl Dance group in Middleton. If you missed it, you can watch it again here.As usual, it was
[slideshow] Lance Corporal Adam Blackburn, 29, of Middleton, has sent us this good news story: I’ve been serving in the regular Army for nine years now, serving in the Royal signals and based in York with 2nd Signal regiment (2 Sigs). I’ve served all over the world, including Afghanistan. I am due
Very few of us have not lost a family member or a friend to cancer and so many of us have reasons to be grateful to Macmillan Nurses for their care and support, writes Andrew Gill of Middleton Railway Trust. In special memory of Kay, the daughter of one of our
South Leeds Life reader Alan Shaw has written this personal and thoughtful guest post: I have come to the conclusion that humans as a species are basically selfish, i.e. they only think of themselves and do not automatically think of others, either those of the same species or of others
I have just been to the park to walk my dog and like every other dog-lover and dog-hater I’ve had to step over dog poo on the pavement on my way there. It got me thinking about the dog owners who don’t pick up their dog’s poo. They can’t all