Tag: Holbeck Highline

South Leeds Roundup: Marketing, marriage and match days

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 the Holbeck Viaduct Project, or Holbeck Highline, if you prefer, which is revamping its website. It’s looking good and we understand it’s a work in progress

South Leeds Roundup: spirals, stories and swimming pools

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, where they’ve been creating bicycled powered art. Their Cycle Spiral event took place today (8 April) and looked like great fun. The

South Leeds Roundup: The viaduct, OLIVe and asthma

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Sorry, no alliteration in the headline, but some interesting stories. The Second Breath is a different sort of travelling circus that will be making its way through Holbeck on Saturday (10 May

Slideshow: Walking the Holbeck Highline

  Last week I accompanied local residents Ed Carlisle and Dennis Kitchen, Cllr Richard Lewis and staff from Network Rail walking the 1.7 km of the Holbeck Viaduct. The 145 year old structure runs from Gelderd Road to Globe Road in Holbeck. Trains haven’t run on it since the 1960s

South Leeds Roundup: Frogs, families and favelas

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Spring is definitely springing this week and Leeds Parks have published this great photo of frogspawn in the lake at Middleton Park. Speaking of photos, The Culture Vulture has some proper photographs

South Leeds Roundup: Views, Viaducts and Vehicles

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. We’ll start with sad news from Friends of Holbeck Cemetery who report on the removal of their viewing platform. The platform provided possibly the best view in Leeds, but suffered from vandalism