What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The pioneer of council housing in south Leeds – whose legacy can still be felt in Middleton, Belle Isle and across south Leeds even today – has been commemorated with a historic blue plaque marking his achievements. Social reformer the Rev Charles Jenkinson (1887-1949) was also vicar of Holbeck and was responsible for driving the clearance
The work of a former leader of Leeds City Council – and a pioneer of council housing in south Leeds – is to be honoured with the unveiling of an historic blue plaque in Belle Isle. Social reformer the Rev Charles Jenkinson (1887-1949) was also vicar of Holbeck and was responsible
It doesn’t seem 13 months since South Leeds Life filed its first post: This is South Leeds Calling. More than 23,000 page impressions and a few hundred posts from more than a dozen different community writers later we’re on the verge of entering 2012. We thought it was the perfect
Ivy Benson, the female band leader from the swing era who was born in Beeston, is to be commemorated by a Blue Plaque later this year. Ivy was an accomplished musician who took the opportunity that the Second World War provided to break into a very male dominated world of