What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
It’s sometimes easy to forget some of the wonderful things we have here on our doorstep in south Leeds. Middleton Railway – the world’s oldest continuously working railway – is one of those. Here’s a recently video posted on YouTube by Jcarey01 of a trip on the railway. Perhaps it’ll inspire you
Anyone interested in the future of the former Tetley’s brewery site and general redevelopment of that part of ‘old’ Hunslet should check out the Leeds Sustainable Development Group’s website. The group is a network of individuals who share a commitment to their city and want to work together to make it
The Hunslet Club in South Leeds is set to amaze customers in the White Rose Shopping Centre on Sunday September 25th from 1:00pm onwards with the talents of its young dancers, performers and sports players at a showcase extravaganza to promote its biggest ever timetable of activities for young people.
If you are reading this you already know about going online, finding interesting websites (including this one!) and enhancing your knowledge of what’s going on in the world. Perhaps you shop on the web too – the weekly supermarket shop or more specialist items from other parts of the country.
Wednesday 14th of September saw a group of brave fundraisers journeying from the Hunslet Club in South Leeds down to Milton Keynes to make a sponsored parachute jump from 13,000 feet up in the air. The event was organised by Margaret Bingham in memory of her son Ciaran. The clubs’ very
MP Hilary Benn has said provisional proposals to carve up his Leeds Central contituency at the next general election ‘make no sense’. Boundary Commission proposals aimed at reducing the total number of Westminster MPs would see the current Leeds Central constituency – which covers much of ‘inner’ south Leeds and other
There’s a whole raft of important public meetings and events in South Leeds this week. As revealed by South Leeds Life last week, there are three public meetings to discuss plans for a new school on the site of the former South Leeds Sports Centre. The meetings are tomorrow (Monday) at
A four- week healthy cookery course is starting in Hunslet on Monday (September 19). If you are interested in finding out more about healthy eating and cooking healthier meals, why not come along to these healthy cooking sessions? The session runs 10am—12.30pm at St Mary’s Church, Hunslet, (opposite the Penny Hill Shopping Centre).
South Leeds Life is a collaborative blog. Eight of us, some linked to organisations, some not, got together last November to start writing about South Leeds. We get together every month or so to see how it’s going, share ideas, ask questions and generally see how we can improve things.
The Friends and Relatives of Hunslet Cemetery group are campaigning for better security at the vandalised cemetery. They’ve set up an online petition and their facebook group has more than 1,200 members. The Friends have set aside Saturday, 17th September, 10am – noon, to do litter picking, pruning and bulb planting