What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
There is a very interesting exhibition ‘Living with Machines’ at the City Museum at the moment. It traces the development and manufacture of machines from the mid 17th Century to the present day. A machine is defined as a device which is driven by forces other than by human ‘elbow
A group of young history-lovers are calling on people across the city to share their experiences and help tell the story of lockdown in Leeds. Leeds City Museum’s Preservative Party wants to hear about the different ways residents have been coping with isolation as they look to create a new
A new display is turning back the clock to explore the fascinating history of communities in Leeds – as told by the people who live there. The Mapping Leeds display at Leeds City Museum has seen people from different areas of the city contribute ideas and historic images to help
Day three of the Community Reporters course and we are heading off to another new destination for myself ‘Leeds City Museum‘. Being new to both Leeds and Yorkshire I was keen to find out more about the city in which I now reside. Well first thing, Leeds is home to
We – the present team of would-be reporters on the Community Correspondents course – took a trip to Leeds Museum in Millennium Square to find some inspiration for our next project report. We climbed the many steps surrounded by about thirty young school children and were handed a leaflet
Wednesday 19th June was the end of a 10 week course for the South Leeds Life Community Reporters. For all our hard work Jeremy Morton the tutor, cooked a celebratory cake – that’s right he can cook a mean cake sponge with cream and jam in the middle. The group
I will own up and admit that I know nothing – nothing at all. I can even go a step further and acknowledge the fact that this lack of knowledge is due to total ignorance, or pure lack of interest. In all fairness, people have personal likes and dislikes.
This week our Community Reporter group visited Leeds City Museum. We split up with a remit to take photographs of things that we found interesting and perhaps things pertaining to South Leeds. For those of you who have never been to the museum before, I would like to recommend it
Yesterday we, the community reporting students, visited the Leeds City Museum. The museum is an array of short exhibits with one exhibit in particular on Leeds itself and includes an interesting section on the woolen trade. Spinning wool and flax (we get linen from flax) was once huge business in
I struggled through the snow into the city centre on Saturday for a Science Fair at the City Museum. I don’t know how long this has been going on but the organisers date back to 1819. There’s something rather wonderful in the fact that the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society