Tag: Garden Gate pub

Hunslet veterans to celebrate 93rd birthdays

The Garden Gate, on Wednesday 6 January 2016, 12 noon, is the venue for birthday celebrations for two Hunslet Rugby League Legends on reaching 93 year old. [slideshow_deploy id=’42882′] Frank ‘Shank’ Watson and Jimmy Brogden who both played around the time of the second world war. Both are still going

Hunslet legend Peter Jarvis celebrates his 70th

Recently appointed Hunslet Hawks Heritage Director, Peter Jarvis celebrated his birthday in one of the Garden Gate’s Heritage rooms, which he helped to create. [slideshow_deploy id=’42758′] Family, friends, supporters and former team mates joined him for a quiet drink, which saw Peter Dunn, who had travelled from Romania, pass on

South Leeds Roundup: Pipes, parades and the apocalypse

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 Gala kicked off with a Pipe Band procession through the streets to Holbeck Moor. By all accounts it was the best gala yet,

South Leeds Roundup: Skills, sons and a skate park

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 SLATE. As well as recycling furniture and serving ace teas, SLATE provide work and training opportunities for people with learning disabilities. They are currently running a

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

Video: Hunslet campaigners highlight trolleybus concerns

  South Leeds campaigners fighting against plans for the £250m New Generation Transport ‘trolleybus’ scheme have spoken of the negative impact it may have on their community. As reported by South Leeds Life, residents of the Whitfield estate in Hunslet recently mounted a protest against the plans, which would see