What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
This year the Heritage Open Days Festival, England’s largest festival of history and culture, has chosen the theme of Architecture, and events in South Leeds offer insights into religion, industry, sport and entertainment. Leeds Civic Trust has worked with organisations across the city to put on over 100 events for
A new Leeds Civic Trust Blue Plaque has been unveiled to record the events of 1936 when 30,000 Leeds residents rallied against the British Union of Fascists on Holbeck Moor. On 27 September 1936 Sir Oswald Mosley and 1,000 Blackshirts of the British Union of Fascists marched from the city
A new Leeds Civic Trust Blue Plaque is to be unveiled on Sunday (29 September 2024) to record the events of 1936 when 30,000 Leeds residents rallied against the British Union of Fascists on Holbeck Moor. On 27 September 1936 Sir Oswald Mosley and 1,000 Blackshirts of the British Union
Proposals currently being considered by council planners have been criticised by Leeds Civic Trust who say the changes to the building risk erasing the identity of this iconic building. As we reported in May, the owners of the former Tetleys brewery headquarters building, Vastint UK, have applied for planning permission
A new exhibition will allow you to experience Leeds at the turn of the 1990s including Leeds Dock, the Royal Armouries Museum and Hunslet Green. The exhibition features over 100 previously unseen Leeds Development Corporation images and modern-day photography. Since September 2023, a team of volunteers at Leeds Civic Trust
With its theme of inventions, innovations and discoveries it’s no surprise that South Leeds has plenty to offer as part of this year’s Heritage Open Days festival. Leeds Civic Trust has worked with organisations across the city to put on 140 events for the festival which runs from Friday 9
Two of Leeds’ most well-known historians have teamed up again to produce a fascinating history of Hunslet – Leeds’ most famous industrial suburb. Best known for their ground-breaking ‘Illustrated History of Leeds’, written in the 1990s, in the last decade they have turned their attention to telling the story of
This time last year sunflowers were popping up all over Beeston as community gardening group Beeston In Bloom contributed seeds, pots and composts to a children’s lockdown activity pack. Yesterday (14 August 2021) the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Cllr Asghar Khan, was on hand to unveil a sunflower themed bench
Leeds Civic Trust organised an online meeting last week (11 March 2021) to hear about progress with renovating the iconic Temple Works in Holbeck. Temple Works was built as a flax mill in 1838-41 by John Marshall, more recently it was used as a warehouse by Kay’s catalogue. Having lain
As an organisation which works to make a great city, better, Leeds Civic Trust has been in admiration of how local communities have come together during the Covid-19 pandemic. Much like their Blue Plaques, they wanted to commemorate this time in our shared history by bringing a bit of colour