What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
John Cooke was a local printer in Meadow Lane, Leeds, and he had a son born on 4 July 1842 who was named Alfred Battye Cooke who throughout his life would only be known as Alf. Alf’s early years were spent as a newsboy and then working in the family printing
The Friends of Middleton Park are hosting a free guided historical coal mining walk in Middleton Park on Sunday (16 March 2025). Middleton colliery has been in operation, for certain from the early 1600s, and probably back to medieval times. The walk will take in some of the areas mined
Two young men who were employed in the Engineering Labourites at the Yorkshire College visited a soap works in 1897 where they saw a number of girls wrapping the bars of soap by hand. Andrew Forbes and Frederick Grover thought that a mechanical device could be provided to carry out
The year is 1844 and on the evening of 9 and 10 June there was great excitement on the streets of Leeds where there was a clash between the Borough Police and the Privates of the 70th Regiment of Foot who at this time were stationed in the town. It
Continuing our series on the bridges over the River Aire and canals, we now leave Crown Point Bridge and walk south along the towpath until we come to our next and final bridge the Hunslet and South Accommodation Bridge. Very little information has been found about this road and bridge.
Situated between Middleton and Belle Isle is a large hill at the base of which the Gosforth Colliery was situated. A tunnel had been driven under the hill, originally 1400 yards long before the steam engine was installed, then a vertical shaft of 80 yards deep then another 700 yards
Charles was the son of James and Clara Young who lived in Heath Grove in Beeston and the husband of Matilda Young. He saw service in the Royal Navy in the First World War aboard minesweepers and in civilian life he was employed as a tram driver by Leeds City
The Lord Mayors of Leeds and Bradford were on hand at Middleton Railway on Saturday (26 October 2024) for the formal handing over of Leeds-built locomotive ‘Hawarden’. As we previously reported when the locomotive arrived in January this year, Hawarden was built in 1899 by Hudswell Clarke & Co in
At the start of September, it was sad to see the demolition of the Queens Hotel in Stourton taking place. Although it had been left unoccupied for some time, the Queens was a landmark in Stourton and was the last residential building left standing in this once thriving village which
In the normal order of things after the Victoria Bridge in Neville Street we would cover Leeds Bridge but having done an extended article on this bridge, in December 2021 and January 2022, we can now go across to Bridge End and down Dock Street and on towards Crown Point