What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook and Twitter. We start this week at Leeds’ community TV channel MADE in Leeds (Channel 8 on Freeview). Pupils from Ingram Road Primary School in Holbeck took over the news programme on Tuesday
January’s a funny time isn’t it? It’s named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces: one looking forward and one looking back. The media is full of articles reviewing the last year and looking ahead to what might happen in 2013. I think this is in part because
The South Leeds Life Group met yesterday at the end of a second successful year. We are rather pleased with ourselves here at South Leeds Towers. 2012 saw a completely revamped website with extra features such as What’s On events guide. We launched the Community Reporters website, so that anyone
South Leeds Life reader Suzy Grace recently alerted us to an online petition to save the historic ‘at risk’ Stanks Hall Barn. It’s an important reminder that one of South Leeds’ most important and historic buildings faces an uncertain future. The Grade II* Listed building was last year featured as a ‘lost opportunity’
A new council report has highlighted how a number of historic south Leeds buildings are ‘at risk’. According to a report in the YEP today, these include: Beeston’s Stank Hall Barn, which some say was built with timber left over from the construction of ships used by explorer Christopher Columbus;