What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
My father, Wesley (Jack) Hollingworth drove the tram on the Middleton Woods route in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Sometimes on Sunday afternoons, if my father was working, my mother would take me and my brother Philip on an outing to Middleton, walking from our home in Beeston
Normality is gradually coming back! The Friends of Middleton Park are starting their 2021 summer programme of events with their traditional Bluebell Walks in Middleton Woods. Last year these had to be cancelled because of Covid restrictions, but this year they are back on again. Normally the Friends hold the
Facebook went a bit crackers yesterday after Michelle Deacon Robertshaw posted a photo of a large snake wrapped around a tree in Middleton Woods with the message “Took a walk in woods. Didn’t expect to see this 😁” Over 1,500 people commented on the status, but few scrolled down to
It’s sixty years since the UK’s finest first-generation tram route closed. Elsewhere in the city few knew that it existed. In South Leeds in the ‘thirties, ‘forties and ‘fifties everybody knew it was there. They had nearly all been for a ride on it in one of the special trams,
Growing up in a city with a tramway network means that impressionable youngsters can be bitten by the tram bug! I was hooked before I was three, in 1940. It’s not uncommon. The French film maker Bernard Tavernier, of a similar age to me, in a newspaper interview told how
About a decade ago a small dentist told me to go to “my happy place” while struggling to remove one of the rotten tombstones clinging to my gums. My initial reaction was to think “I’ll send you to your happy place in a minute”, and the only thing that stopped
Last Sunday (13 December 2015) saw over 350 runners brave the arctic weather, much mud, and (thanks to Saturday’s torrential rain) a last-minute obstacle of a large fallen tree to complete the Leeds Xmas 10k Challenge in Middleton Park. Now in its fourth year, the multi-terrain race organised by FairPlay
The Leeds Transport Historical Society is holding an evening stroll on Monday 13 July 2015 down part of the trackbed of the Middleton Tramway to commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of its opening on 12 November 1925. The group will meet on the Ring Road Beeston Park at the junction with
I think it must have been in honour of World Mental Health Day last Friday that my depression flared up again this week. It was the French philosopher Jean-Paul Satre that said “Hell is other people” and I frequently agree. Of course avoiding people isn’t a great strategy for
A group of us on the Community Reporters course went to Middleton Woods to practice our photographic skills. The fact that it was the 13th of the month didn’t matter as I’m not too superstitious. It went reasonably well. It was obvious that some restoration work was going on. Work was