Tag: South Leeds Photographs

Slideshow of your photos: South Leeds winter wonderland!

Here’s a slideshow of some of the photographs of snowy South Leeds taken by South Leeds Life readers Eve Tidswell and Steve Williamson. The images were taken today while the snow was at its height and focus on the Holbeck Cemetery and Cross Flatts Park areas. We’d welcome more of

Picture perfect: Top floor view from Crescent Towers – Plus ‘In Bloom’

What a fabulous view of South Leeds and beyond those community stalwarts Dennis Kitchen and Ian Pickup have! The duo, who are the brains behind The Voice of Holbeck, Holbeck in Bloom and Friends of Holbeck Social Club, live on the top floor in Crescent Towers at the bottom of

South Leeds roundup: Peter O’Toole, Middleton banana squirrels and Cottingley issues

Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s been making south Leeds tick on other websites and blogs: Veteran actor Peter O’Toole has announced he is retiring from the stage and screen, at the age of 79. The Irish-born star – best known for playing Lawrence of Arabia in Sir David Lean’s

Thread: Olympic torch in Beeston and Hunslet – UPDATED

[slideshow]Above: slideshow of Olympic Torch photographs taken by our voluntary contributors today. Many thanks to everyone for their contributions. UPDATE: Regular South Leeds Life contributor Paul Ibbotson has sent us some photographs of when the torch entered Elland Road. UPDATE: The third video of the day in this Olympic Torch

Picture perfect: Help South Leeds Life cover the Olympic Torch relay

So Monday’s the big day when the Olympic Torch comes to south Leeds. We know there’s a lot of interest in this as you’ve been coming to our site in your hundreds over the past couple of weeks searching for the latest information on what’s happening. South Leeds Life will

Photo blog: Friends of Holbeck Cemetery are picture perfect

The Friends of Holbeck Cemetery group took part in a photohunt around the cemetery on Beeston Festival day. Member Eve Tidswell captured these photos of Holbeck Cemetery and wanted to share them with South Leeds Life readers. We think they’re well worth a look. Don’t forget, you can email your

Get ready for a special photohunt at Beeston Festival

Are you ready to photograph Beeston at its best tomorrow? Beeston Festival draws thousands of people each year – and South Leeds Life is organising a special event to encourage local people to photograph the event and the wonderful people there. We’ve teamed up with the Looking Good Beeston and Holbeck photography project,

Picture perfect: Beeston Bogie Cup in Middleton Park

This lovely photograph of the Beeston Bogie Cup 2012 in Middleton Park has been shared onto the South Leeds Life group pool of photo sharing site Flickr. The photo was taken by Rich Bell, aka RealHappy Lad. Check out his excellent gallery of photos from the event. Have to say I’d never

Join Beeston photohunt and show The Secret Millionaire how great we are!

It’s Beeston Festival on June 9 when the community will come together and celebrate the incredible multicultural mix that binds the area together. Following this week’s Secret Millionaire TV programme – in which theatre producer David King was carjacked in Hunslet and referred to the area as ‘stab city’ – South Leeds