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South Leeds Roundup: Heritage, Hunslet St Mary’s and the Hugo Family

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We start with a plug – watch out for Stank Hall Barn on the telly on Thursday (5 December), it will feature in Restoring England’s Heritage (7:30pm BBC1) presented by John Sergeant.

South Leeds Roundup: Scooters, schools and … Santa?

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. As we are entering autumn, the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”, I thought we should start in Stourton. Volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have been harvesting fruit and veg over

South Leeds Roundup: The Tetley, TED and Trash

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We have a new centre for contemporary art on our doorstep. The Tetley – it has a ring to it, doesn’t it? Like The Baltic or The Tate? Anyway it will open

Weekend Preview: festivals & fun days

  The sun continues to shine on South Leeds and there’s lots to do this weekend. Here are some of the highlights. Middleton Music Festival Ian Kirkland and his compatriots have pulled together the biggest music event Middleton has ever seen and it’s all in a good cause. Seven bands

South Leeds Roundup: Friends, Family Fun and Fleetwood Mac

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. There’s lots going on in Middleton Park right now and the Friends group have posted several interesting items on their Facebook page this week. If you’re interested in small mammals, archaeology or

Family Fun Day planned for New Forest Village

  The Friends of New Forest Village are planning a summer event and they need your help. They are planning a Family Fun Day on Sunday 21st July on the playing fields between Waggon Road and St George’s Centre. The organisers promise competitions, stalls, demonstrations and more! The event will

South Leeds Roundup: Staffies, Steam Trains and Self Help

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites and blogs. Trains started running again on the Middleton Railway this last weekend – did you hear the whistle? Full timetable details are on their website. Friends Of New Forest Village/Heritage Village are asking on their Facebook

South Leeds Roundup: Hopscotch, Chimneys and Yellow Lines

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites and blogs. The Westwood Community Association have a very good Facebook group with lots of lively discussion. This week they posted have some good advice about doorstep crime and how to avoid becoming a victim. There was

South Leeds Roundup: Actors, Swimmers, Footballers and Bloomers

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites and blogs. We don’t often quote Leeds Student, but they ventured to Holbeck to review Slung Low Theatre’s productions of Beulah and Some Small Love Story at their home, the HUB (Holbeck Underground Ballroom, under the viaduct).