South Leeds Life

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The annual Cottingley Fair took place on Saturday 19th May at Cottingley Primary School. Normally the event is held in the grounds of the school, but due to the poor weather the organisers decided to move the event indoors. Richard Lancaster one of the organisers, said: “We are delighted with the support shown by local [...]

  The Luncheon club is held every Tuesday for the elderly residents of Belle Isle sheltered housing, and is run by BITMO. We meet from 11:00am until 1:00pm at Sheltered Housing Luncheon Club, 58 Belle Isle Circus, Belle Isle, Leeds, LS10 3HW Come and join us every Tuesday for lunch, which we order (for them [...]

  The traditional corner shop that I remember as a lad was opened from 10am – 4pm, Monday to Saturday; it closed for lunch from 12-1pm and also closed half day every Wednesday. But the shop did not open on Sundays – mind you nothing opened on a Sunday if I remember right. All the [...]

  Here is a good one. What exactly is “local”? Um – I will use the simplest dictionary definition that I could come across. “Local” implies pertaining to, characteristic of, or restricted to a particular place or particular places. What is the general characteristic of my community? One thing for sure, it is not static [...]

There has been a lot of talk recently about Asda, Tesco & Aldi coming to Middleton and how, if at all, it will affect local shops. Asda have got planning permission to build on the old Co-op site in Middleton, Tesco who also applied, have not. The building of the Asda supermarket has been held [...]

  I live minutes away from my local shops and rely on the generous opening hours of the small but adequate Sainsbury’s for my ‘through the week fresh produce’ and if I chance upon the right time in the evening, the odd bargain at the end of aisle one. Other than this shop, I tend [...]

  Morrisons cafe is driving me mad, but at least my Algebra is coming in useful. I’m a regular at Morrison’s Café in Hunslet, the breakfasts are just the thing for me since I’m not much of a cook. But the service often verges on the comical. It’s left me with a bit of a [...]

On Friday 3rd May I was lucky enough to be in the audience to see Germaine Greer in her one woman show, ‘40 Years of Feminism and Fun’.  This was an eagerly awaited treat as I had bought the tickets last November as a Christmas present for my husband. NB: Always buy the husband presents [...]

On a recent short term break to the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales, I stayed in a hotel that had the Snowdonia National Park as back drop when you looked out of the window. I’ve only every seen the Welsh Snowdonia mountains on TV -  where they show survival programmes seen as holiday retreats [...]

Be careful of tradesmen who come to your door telling you that you need your roof or guttering doing quickly. There seems to be a spate of these people operating in Beeston just lately. We’ve had three in the space of a fortnight. The last one who came nearly hammered our door down, and was [...]