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 and Twitter. We start this week reminiscing about Beeston. If you live or grew up in Beeston, you need to join the Memories of Beeston, Leeds Facebook Group. From there we reproduce a
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 Beeston blogger Mike Wallis who has done a lovely ‘daft little watercolour’. Mars is so bracing is in the style of the famous Skegness poster. You’ll
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
2015 marks the tenth anniversary of 7/7, the London bombings. South Leeds Life has spoken to a range of local figures about those events, their aftermath and the decade since. Inspector Chris Bowen heads up the Inner South Neighbourhood Policing Team. He worked in Beeston until 2002 and returned in
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 Hunslet Club where it was presentation night for the U7, U8 and U9s rugby teams. Coaches, volunteers and parents were thanked with the most amazing
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 there’s been quite a kerfuffle about the plans for Temple Mill online this week. First the Council put out a press release ahead of
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 a tweet we spotted from Cllr Kim Groves (@groves_kim): “Observence of Remembrance Service Hunslet Cemetery Cenotaph Sunday 9th November at 3pm to pay respect to those
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, where the Asha Neighbourhood Project is preparing to mark their 30th anniversary next year. They’ve been out planting daffodil bulbs in resident’s gardens on Stratford
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 down at the new Elland Road Police Station and ask the question: who hasn’t fantasised about throwing a custard pie at a senior Police officer? Children
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start with news that Beeston’s popular chip shop Park Fisheries has won Gold from Yorkshire In Bloom. Fantastic – well done guys! Here’s a picture to celebrate: Beeston Festival