What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. The days are getting longer and so thoughts turn to community festivals. Beeston Festival has updated its website in preparation for 2014. They’ve adopted a Tour de France theme under the slogan
The Council’s Inner South Area Committee met last night (5 February 2014) approving a range of grants and reviewing their work programme, as well as hearing from residents during the Open Forum. £5,000 was approved, in principle, for Health For All to carry out a feasibility study into the
Members of the Friends of Stank Hall Barn attended the Council’s Inner South Area Committee last night (11 December 2013) to ask for help in their dealing’s with the Council’s City Development department. Since forming in February at a meeting organised by South Leeds Life and holding a
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.
The Friends of Stank Hall Barn are raising concerns that 15th century Cad Beeston, perhaps the oldest house in Leeds, could be damaged by new owners. As South Leeds Life reported, Cad Beeston, is to be sold at auction on 6 December. Members of the Friends of Stank Hall
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We love a ginnel here at South Leeds Towers, so thanks to Steph Langley who posted a photo and details of a quiet path from Cottingley to the White Rose Centre on
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Last weekend was Remembrance Sunday and many Scouts and Guides from South Leeds went to the parade in Morley. Lucy Potter described it on her blog Lucylines: A bright Sunday morning, marching
The Manor House, Cad Beeston Mews is for sale at auction at Elland Road on 6 December 2013 with a guide price of £175,000. According to estate agent William H Brown part of the property is believed to be the oldest secular building in Leeds. It has been dated by
As you may have gathered over the months, I have always been an advocate of people power. If you think something’s not right, get the community to do something about it or to put pressure on those with the power to change things. This begs the question: who does
After 14 years as the local MP, Hilary Benn finally made it to one of the oldest buildings in his constituency on Friday (6 September 2013). “I’d heard about the barn, but didn’t know exactly where it was until today. It truly is the hidden gem of South Leeds.