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Come down to Morley this weekend to see Queen Street transformed into 1914 with a street market and live entertainment. On Queen Street there will be: 1914 tram 173 (why not have your photo taken on board?) Recrutement Tent – next to Morley Town Hall Morley community archives Street market
What have the Israeli invasion of Gaza and the shooting down of an airliner over Ukraine got to do with a First World War commemoration at Cockburn School last Friday? The commemoration at Cockburn was done very well. A lot of work had gone into it, pupils had studied
Cockburn School held a commemoration to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 on Friday (18 July 2014). Pupils and staff were joined by the Lord Mayor of Leeds Cllr David Congreve, the Archdeacon of Leeds Canon Paul Hooper, Colonel Denney of the
Peter Nuttall from Cockburn School has been in touch to update us on preparations for next week’s World War One commemoration: Just a couple of photos showing the behind the scenes skeleton of the replica trench we are building – it will work so that visitors arrive at the
A local history project is attempting to find the family of D Goodman, an ex pupil of Cockburn High School who attended the school during the Second World War. As previously reported on South Leeds Life, the Learning Trust (South Leeds) which includes Cockburn High School is running a
It can’t have escaped your notice that this year marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. South Leeds Life has published two stories already and this week the national press has been full of debate sparked by Michael Gove’s attack on various historians and the