What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The music charity Cloth Cat, now based in Holbeck Working Men’s Club, will be hosting a really special celebration to mark its silver anniversary on Saturday (20 April 2024). They promise a free buffet, tombola and party vibes for their many supporters and volunteers. Over the last quarter of a
Thursday (12 September 2019) saw Leeds Civic Trust unveiling a blue plaque to celebrate the Holbeck Working Men’s Club. The unveiling featured a specially commissioned poem by Ian McMillan (see below), as well as a performance by the Commoners Choir. Formed in 1871 the Holbeck Working Men’s Club is the
You are invited to attend a community exhibition for us to share our early thoughts about a vibrant new housing, business, leisure and shopping area in Holbeck, in the heart of South Bank Leeds. The event will be held at the Holbeck Working Men’s Club, Jenkinson Lawn, Leeds LS11 9QX
Acclaimed Holbeck-based theatre company Slung Low and five Yorkshire writers team up to present an afternoon of brand new radio plays in one of the UK’s oldest surviving Working Men’s Club. Performed and recorded live in front of an audience with on-stage sound effects and live music, these snapshots of
Upcoming events at The Holbeck (formerly Holbeck Working Mens Club). Everyone welcome! Thursday 23 April – Psychic Medium Night. An Audience with Gareth Lewis. As part of his Walking with Spirits Tour – spend an evening with Gareth as he shows his amazing ability to contact the spirit world. Tickets
The tragic news of the death of Rhys Baker left Holbeck Working Men’s club cold last week. Rhys was the son of one of the members, Mark Baker. I interviewed Mark only last year when he had just won the Arla Lorry Driver of the year award 2014. Looking back
Marching on Together is a play written by Leeds based Adam Hughes. Hot on the heels of its debut performance in London at the Old Red Lion, BackHere Productions have come straight to Leeds to deliver this piece of hard hitting theatre. Funded by the Arts Council and Leeds Inspired,
I met Flo Plummer, the Prince’s Trust Team Leader for South Leeds in Holbeck, back in December when I was visiting Holbeck Working Men’s Club reporting on their dazzling Christmas Grotto. Just as I was leaving, Flo introduced herself and wanted me to share the achievements of the team members
The tenants who will soon be moving into new housing on Brown Lane East in Holbeck were welcomed to Holbeck at an event at Holbeck Working Men’s Club on Saturday morning (10 January 2015). Unity Housing Association which has built the new properties invited new tenants to a meet and
Happy New Year! 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 Holbeck Working Men’s Club, or The Holbeck as we must learn to call it, and their New Year’s Eve party. The club has