Tag: friends of Middleton Park

South Leeds Roundup: Fungi, festivals and old photographs

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 nature walk organised by Friends of Middleton Park last Sunday which revealed, amongst other things, an allegedly edible tree fungus called ‘chicken of the woods’.

South Leeds Roundup: Dabbing, dough and dementia

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 The Tetley art gallery in Hunslet where you are invited to collaborate on a giant group painting made by rolling, twisting and dabbing painted balls over

South Leeds Roundup: Lakers, lures and leaders

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 the Leeds Half Marathon. New running group the South Leeds Lakers were well represented amongst those competitors as can be seen from the photo taken before

South Leeds Roundup: Basements; bluebells and butterflies

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. If you’ve always wanted to go to an art exhibition in the cellar of a terraced house in Beeston, but wondered what to expect, check

New life for Middleton Park

A meeting of the Friends of Middleton Park last night (21 April 2015) discussed plans for the park following the closure of the golf course last year. A consultation is currently being carried out by Leeds City Council – you can take part online here: www.leeds.gov.uk/consultations. Alan Shaw, Chair of

South Leeds Roundup: play dates, parties and programmes

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 Cottingley Community Centre where they’ve launched a new Facebook page. It’s the place to go if you want to know about things like the new Saturday

Middleton Park: Have your say on the future

South Leeds residents can have their say over the future development of Middleton Park. Following the recent investment of £2 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund the park has undergone a significant amount of change and development in recent years. Last year the decision was taken to close the Leeds