What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
On Wednesday 28 October 1835 an event occurred that shook Holbeck and a wide area around the township of Leeds. The disaster was in the nature of an explosion in Mrs Maud’s Fold, Holbeck Lane at the home of William Wood, a firework maker. It occurred at about a quarter
South Leeds Life has been contacted by residents from Hunslet Carr who heard what they describe as an explosion coming from Hunslet Cemetery. West Yorksire Fire & Rescue Service did not attend, but West Yorkshire Police commented: “Police were called at around 12.40am this morning (18 December 2018) after a
The reports of the terrible mining disaster in Turkey this week remind me that that South Leeds is honeycombed by mine workings and has suffered its share mining deaths in the past. For example, nine men died at Beeston Main Colliery in 1847 when they broke into old workings