South Leeds Life

The recently launched Hunslet Club & Parkside Rugby Academy now has an expanded programme of training sessions from pre-school through to year 9 at their facilities in South Leeds. These two clubs with long established roots in rugby league, having taught the likes of Jason Robinson (now Honorary Patron of the Academy) and many other professional [...]

  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 [...]

  Thursday 23rd May will see Hunslet Hawks make their debut on Premier Sports when we entertain local rivals Batley Bulldogs in the Kingstone Press Championship. The night will also see a first for the Hawks as they attempt to break a Guinness World Record. The Hawks are attempting to break is the record for [...]

  SLATE, the “feelgood furniture store” is recruiting for a casual van driver. SLATE is a charity and part of its operations is a second hand furniture shop. They are looking for a casual driver to collect and deliver furniture across Leeds and surrounding areas, working alongside and supporting people with learning difficulties. You must [...]

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 [...]

Footballers at the Hunslet Club have started to play matches recently with a squad set of kits donated by stars of the Premier League. Through the Players’ Kit Scheme the squads of all of the 20 Barclays Premier League Clubs have provided some of the best youth teams throughout the country with free Nike football [...]

A Trolleybus question and answer session was held at Belle Isle Family Centre yesterday (1st May). I went to this session as the new Trolleybus route (if the plans are passed) will come down my street, Winrose Grove. I was surprised by the lack of local people at the event. Winrose Grove is a very narrow [...]

It’s the 40th anniversary of the closing of the Parkside ground, the historic home of Hunslet rugby league club. On the 21st April 1973 Hunslet played York in the last ever game at Parkside. Geoff Gunney was the last player to leave the pitch after Hunslet lost 5 -22. Thankfully, the club reformed under the [...]

A petition with more than 250 signatures from local people angry about  the planned closure of the Middleton branch of Yorkshire Bank is to be sent to bank chiefs. Yorkshire Bank is proposing to rationalise its services and close its Middleton Park Circus branch on June 20, with local residents being told to attend the [...]

I’ve lived in South Leeds all my life. Was born in Hunslet. Moved to Belle Isle during the slum clearance, then moved to Middleton. Moved back to Belle Isle in 2011 into sheltered housing. I was born in Larchfield Street, Hunslet in 1949. The terrace house I was born in had just one room downstairs [...]