What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
More than 20 people attended a public meeting in Middleton last night to hear about the work of the Leodis online archive of old Leeds photographs. The meeting was part of the Middleton Life local history project, which is made up of a group of local residents who are looking
Middleton’s phone mast probloems have hit the press again. Our friends at the Yorkshire Evening Post have put together this report: A master protester has his eyes on stopping a sixth mobile phone mast going up in his area in 20 years. Roy Bowler, from Middleton, has again been spurred
South Leeds residents are cordially invited to two public meetings which will examine the history of their community. The first meeting will be held next Wednesday, March 21, and will feature a talk by representatives of Leeds online history photograph archive Leodis. The following Wednesday, March 28, will see representatives from
Good morning, South Leeds. Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s been making south Leeds tick on other news sites and blogs. The YEP reports on the queen of the Cardinal estate in Beeston, Yvonne Crowther, and her bid to turn a hair salon on the estate into a community cafe
Construction work has started in earnest with the long-awaited revamp of Middleton Park. The Friends of Middleton Park’s excellent Facebook group page has some excellent updates and photos of the work in the park so far, check it out here. The steelworks for the new Lakeside Centre have going up. The group
Andy Hardy, the traffic manager at Middleton Railway, has written this guest post about a special anniversary and the biggest event in the railway’s history in June. This year, on June 24th the Middleton Railway will be celebrating an important anniversary. On that day 200 years ago, the first commercially
[slideshow]Delving through old photographs of Middleton on the internet and pinning memories of the community’s past in large maps were all featured in the first workshop of the Middleton Life local history project this week. The workshop, at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre, also saw group members learn how to use
[slideshow]Did you know that in the twelfth century the boundary between Middleton and Beeston became the focus of a legal dispute? That’s one of the facts about Middleton that the 35 people who attended the launch of the new Middleton Life local history project discovered yesterday. The event, held at Tenants
I picked up this slim volume whilst browsing in Waterstone’s book shop the other week. Walks in the Rhubarb Triangle is a delightful little book and it got me thinking about a favourite food. I’ve been fascinated that I live in something called the “Rhubarb Triangle” since I moved to
There’s less than a week to go before the start of the exciting new Middleton Life local history project, which is proving to be the talk of South Leeds! Local residents are cordially invited to join the fun project, which will see participants become local history reporters, investigating the past of