Tag: Friends of Holbeck Cemetery

South Leeds Roundup: Craft clubs; cheerleaders and championing change

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week in Cottingley with the nicely alliterating children’s Craft Club at Cottingley Community Centre, which seems to have been a great success on Monday judging from the photos.

South Leeds Roundup: Clubbercise, caffeine and a ‘crafternoon’

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with Clubbercise, the new exercise class that’s held in the dark with glow sticks. Beeston Parish Centre has posted a short a video to promote Julie’s class

South Leeds Roundup: Cad Beeston, crafts and cafes

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with Paul Bullivant who has posted a lovely photo of Cad Beeston, the area’s other medieval building on the Friends of Stank Hall Barn Facebook page. On

South Leeds Roundup: Santa Specials, cycling and sausage casserole

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, so we start this week down at Middleton Railway are starting their Santa Specials on Saturday (6 December). Full details are on the

South Leeds Roundup: Films, Fitness and Flute Skywalker

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week down at Leeds Dock where Sneaky Experience are bringing two special Pulp Fiction nights on 21 and 22 November. They’ll be recreating Jack Rabbit Slims with live

South Leeds Roundup: Cenotaphs, clean-ups, and civic receptions

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with a tweet we spotted from Cllr Kim Groves (@groves_kim): “Observence of Remembrance Service Hunslet Cemetery Cenotaph Sunday 9th November at 3pm to pay respect to those

Save the Spotted Cow’s Head!

The derelict remains of the Spotted Cow Inn stand slightly off the road on Top Moor Side in Holbeck. Lining a popular thoroughfare into the city, it looks like just another overlooked building in the area. However, this was once a thriving 19th Century public house, serving the community and

South Leeds Roundup: Soldiers, Sport and Santa Specials

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at Holbeck Cemetery where they are keen to learn more about their war dead. From Sgt Edward Blackburn through to Pvt Walter Turton the Friends of Holbeck

South Leeds Roundup: Ponds, Piles, People & Property

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week down at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton where Toby Roberts tells the story of the creation of the big new dipping pond in a new

South Leeds Roundup: Water, Witness and wasps’ nests

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week with intriguing photos of Slung Low preparing for their water-borne version of Moby Dick to be performed at (on? in?) Leeds Dock next month. Tickets for