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The long history of Middleton Park – which includes death, mining and some really colourful stories – was featured in a talk to the Middleton Life local history project by a couple of community stalwarts. Alan Shaw and Jim Jackson, of the Friends of Middleton Park group, spoke to 15
Here’s our weekly roundup of what’s making south Leeds tick from other blogs and websites: Holbeck in Bloom blog about a very welcome donation from Santander and some of the latest work in the area. The show goes on – that’s the defiant message from the folks at Middleton Railway,
It’s not often we comment on things that happen in our communities here at South Leeds Life. We try to be objective and impartial on everything we cover, so much so we’ve never really written a ‘comment’ piece before – until now. As we’ve reported today, Middleton Railway has been
Heartless thieves have struck at the heart of south Leeds’ heritage by targeting the Middleton Railway for the second time in under a year. In this latest incident, thieves took between £6,000 to £7,000 of metal from the world’s oldest continuously working railway, which has been running since 1758. Volunteers who now run the
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
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
A group of Middleton residents are set to become local history reporters and investigate the past of their community. Led by volunteers from the local community, the Middleton Life project has received £49,600 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The project will empower residents to tell the history of the
Middleton has a very rich industrial heritage. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the first revenue earning locomotives to run on the Middleton Railway, in 1812, and of course the first in the world. This was also the start of the Leeds Loco building industry. South Leeds Life will