What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
To normal people, the word ‘Leeds’ means a city in Northern England (unless you’re Google Maps, in which case it means a small village in Kent). Weirdly, though, if you say ‘are you going to Leeds?’ to anyone who researches the Middle Ages, they will think you mean ‘are you
Do you believe your mobile phone works? Yes. (Unless you just dropped it in the bath, obviously.) Do you know how it works? No. Actually, nor does anyone else. Some people know how to etch ten million transistors onto a square millimetre of silicon. Some can send radio waves up
It’s not every day that Beeston welcomes a visiting dignitary. But last Tuesday Magid Magid, the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, came to give a public talk entitled ‘Local Politics: What’s the Point?’ Magid (29) came to national attention when he became Sheffield’s youngest ever lord mayor, as well as the
From the early 1980s, the Malvern Shop stood at the corner of Beeston Road and Malvern Road. It closed in early 2018, but happily, Leeds City Council soon let the unit to a new business: an Ethiopian cafe and restaurant, Melkam Café & Restaurant. South Leeds Life went round to
The St Luke’s Tenants and Residents Association is run by residents, for residents. We cover the area from Elland Road to Dewsbury Road, and from the M621 to Holbeck cemetery (so places like the Disraelis, Bismarcks, Northcotes, Normantons, Malverns and Bartons). We organise community events, run meetings to enable local
Residents of Greenhouse joined up with neighbours last Saturday (24 November 2018) to spend an afternoon planting 250 hedge-plants around the building. Greenhouse is the block of eco-flats and offices at the north end of Beeston Road that was previously Shaftesbury House. With most of the countryside around Leeds being
Something you often hear in Beeston is that it’s good for takeways, but a bit short on nice, sit-down restaurants. So I was excited when PJDee’s African Cuisine opened in Greenhouse, the block of eco-flats with windmills on the roof on Beeston Road. I went to meet Janet, the proprietor,