Tag: friends of Middleton Park

Rock and Folk comes to Middleton Park

The Friends of Middleton Park and Leeds Music Trust are hosting the Middleton Music & Folk Festival this Sunday, 17 July 2016 from 12-4pm on the bandstand in Middleton Park. Topping the bill will be Makanitza bringing their mix of Eastern European and Gipsy Roma music with a distinctive Leeds

South Leeds Roundup: Gardening, gardening and more gardening

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 on Dewsbury Road near the One Stop Centre, where children from Flowerpots Day Nursery helped Groundwork and Beeston in Bloom to plant new flowers in a

South Leeds Roundup: The Bridge, Bats and Badges

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 Holbeck where the team from The Bridge centre won the Fair Play Final in the football tournament which was part of Leeds Learning Disability Week. Congratulations

South Leeds Roundup: Parks, poaching and pre-fabs

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 Miggy Park. There’s an interesting post from the Friends of Middleton Park about the difficulties of funding their summer programme and encouraging people to join the

Steampunk Macbeth comes to Middleton Park

Oddsocks Theatre are returning to Middleton Park on Tuesday 5 July 2016 and this year they are bringing a ‘steampunk’, rock’n’roll version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The production, which is organised by The Friends of Middleton Park promises to be nothing short of Oddsocks’ usual mayhem and anarchy. Shakespeare’s story of

Half term activities in South Leeds

As the May half term holiday kicks off, we have pulled together some ideas of things to do: Middleton Railway As well as the usual weekend services, trains will be running on Middleton Railway on Bank Holiday Monday and Wednesday 1 June. On Sunday 29 May you can join a

South Leeds Roundup: Blossoms, brochures and Bridlington

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 Beeston at Holbeck Cemetery (don’cha just love the geograohy of South Leeds?) where the Friends group, the Wednesday Wanderers and volunteers from O2 have all been

South Leeds Roundup: desserts, diners and defibrillators

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 Beeston blogger Mike Wallis. He’s tweaked the Desert Island Discs format and selected five desserts to be stranded with on the mythical desert island. I’m not