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Christmas will soon be on us and some may be wondering what gifts to buy especially for children. Perhaps you may consider buying a Monopoly board game, originally printed by Waddingtons on the Wakefield Road at Stourton. Monopoly was invented by an American Quaker Elizabeth Magie in 1903 which she
At the end of this month of July, school holidays will begin. A question many parents will be asking themselves is where could they take the children for a good day out which will not break the bank! I remember as a young girl waiting with my mother and sister
At the end of this month of March will be the Easter holidays with the two-week school break following. Those readers who may not have booked to go away may be wondering where they may visit at little or no cost especially if they have children to look after. A
I wish all South Leeds Life readers a very Happy New Year with the hope that life will improve for all of us. Older South Leeds residents will recall the time when New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day did not mean a great deal apart from many going to
Next weekend (29 October 2023) we will once again be putting our clocks back and the dark nights will be upon us until we put them forward again at the end of next March. I have already written an article for South Leeds Life arguing that it should be end
July is the time of the year when parents are starting to think about next school year’s uniforms for their children. And they can be expensive items to buy – more of this later. I am reminded of the time when I attended my local primary school in Kirkstall where
Like other towns, Leeds was hit with the Cholera outbreak in the early 1830s. At the time it was believed that people contracted the virus through breathing in contaminated air. But local Dr Robert Baker made the connection between insanitary living conditions in poor areas and the higher prevalence of
After the Second World War, Leeds City Council was twinned with the cities of Lille in France and Dortmund in Germany and, on local government reorganisation when Morley joined Leeds in 1974, Leeds also adopted its German twin town of Siegen Germany was particularly keen on twinning arrangements to demonstrate
Leeds was one of the last, if not the very last, of the big cities to install electric lighting in its residential streets. In my street there was only one dim gas street-light to serve 32 houses. There was no ‘night-time economy’. After the Leeds pubs closed at 10pm and
Before the reorganisation of Local Government in 1974, many services including water, police, fire services and all health services outside of hospitals which included the ambulances, were run by the bigger city councils called ‘corporations’, or in rural areas their county councils. I was privileged to serve on the Leeds