What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Back in 2016, I was honoured to represent Hunslet RLFC in the Rugby League Choir at Wembley to sing Abide With Me. This was on the hallowed turf of Wembley just before the Challenge Cup final between Warrington and Hull FC. That was a marvellous experience, but the 32 members
Thanks to a grant from the RFL’s Created By Rugby League World Cup, work on Hunslet Warriors ARLFC’s new girls’ changing room at Hunslet Green has been moving ahead. Linking up with VIY (Volunteer It Yourself) local youngsters have been learning skills such as plumbing and carpentry, whilst gaining City
Hunslet Green, Home of the Hunslet Warriors, is proud to announce that they have secured funding from CreatedBy RLWC2021 Capital Grants Programme, in partnership with Sport England, the Rugby Football League, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and VIY (Volunteer It Yourself). The grant will be used for
Here’s a little more information linking to the restoration of the Bile Beans advert in Hunslet. Bile Beans were pills which purported to cure everything from biliousness to “Headache, indigestion, constipation, piles, debility, female weakness, dizziness, sallow complexions, pimples, impure blood and liver, stomach and bowel troubles.” Wow! All that
10 years ago, Mark Wilson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Symptoms vary of course, but most people would associate trembling hands with this debilitating disease. Famous sufferers include the Big Yin, Billy Connelly, whose possible diagnosis was spotted by a doctor who noticed the comedian walking in the distinct small
The weather was cold, wet, driving wind: how did the young men survive the trenches, let alone the bullets and artillery? I was on a WW1 Battlefields Tour and I could get back on a warm, dry coach after half an hour: the soldiers could not. I was making a
Here’s another entry for the 2019 St Luke’s CARES Community Awards, it has been submitted by Pat Benatmane on behalf of Hunslet Green, the home of the Hunslet Warriors ARLFC. For details of how YOUR community group can enter please click here. Hunslet Green, next to Morrisons in Hunslet, looks
First you have to find your own road in to the Playhouse. Most of the car park at the back has disappeared, swallowed up by the builders who are transforming our wonderful Playhouse to make it even more wonderful. We seemed to be going in an ever-decreasing spiral to find
100 years ago, a mighty war was drawing to its bloody close and local people would have been involved, so I have been asked to research what players and associates of Hunslet RLFC did during the war. Many of the players, being part-time, would have been miners as coal runs
Our next entry for the St Luke’s CARES Community Awards has been submitted by Hunslet Green Sports Club, home of Hunslet Warriors ARLFC. For details of how your community group can enter please click here. The Hunslet Green project is that we want to change a tired, little-used gym in