What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
It might still be November, but Christmas is definitely on its way and communities around South Leeds are preparing to switch on their own local Christmas Lights. Here’s a full rundown: Belle Isle Join ward Councillors Judith Blake, Kim Groves and Paul Truswell at 3:30pm on Monday 26 November at
St Mary’s Church in Beeston is hosting ‘Carols by Candlelight’ on Sunday (18 December 2016) at 7pm. This is not a full carol service but a chance people to come together and sing some favourite Christmas carols together. Rev Lindsey Pearson, the Vicar of Beeston said: “If you got a
The Cross Flatts Lantern Festival returned for the 4th time on Friday 9 December 2016. Approximately 400 people came out on an unseasonably mild December evening to enjoy seeing the park beautifully lit up with lanterns and fairy lights. Photos by Mark Day The crowds were treated to performances by
The popular Christmas Lantern Festival returns to Beeston this Friday (9 December 2016), with Cross Flatts Park once again set to be filled with lanterns and lights, and hundreds of people gathering for live music, carols, interactive arts, animal petting, story-telling, and more. Now in its fourth year, this free
The popular annual Cross Flatts Park Lantern Festival returns to Beeston this Christmas – on the evening of Friday 11 December (2015). The free, family-friendly event will once again feature carol singing (led by the local Salvation Army brass band), live animals to meet and pet, refreshments (this year including
Over two hundred residents, old and young, turned out yesterday to sing carols and see the Beeston Christmas lights switched on. The Salvation Army band led the singing of three carols before Cllr Angela Gabriel officially switched on the lights outside the Co-op. As well as the lights on the
The Christmas Lantern Festival returns to Cross Flatts Park on Friday (12 December 2014). The park will be transformed into a festive wonderland full of lights and sounds! Last year’s Festival was a special time for people from all corners of the community and this year promises to be even
Mosaic Church and Holbeck Christian Fellowship hosted their Carol Service for the 4th year running at St. Matthew’s Community Centre in Holbeck. St. Matthews was the centre of Christmas the other evening (Sunday 14 December 2013) with metres of twinkling lights hanging over the stone memorial plaques and storage
Several hundred people joined a Salvation Army Band to sing carols in Cross Flatts Park, Beeston on Friday (13 December 2013). Photos by Daniel Heeles Organisers of the inaugural Lantern Festival dressed the park in lights. Tea light lanterns and trees wrapped in fairy lights guided people along the paths
Lantern Festival in Cross Flatts Park Residents and school children will be lighting up Cross Flatts Park on Friday (13 December 2013) and singing Christmas Carols with the Salvation Army band. You are encouraged to bring a lantern or a light, but no candles or naked flames please. Refreshments