South Leeds Life

Leeds Dynamite, the Middleton-based dance and cheerleading squad are USA bound after their latest competition success. The group took 100 dancers and supporters to Telford on Easter Sunday for the UK Championships and came home with four winner’s trophies. The win also means that Dynamite have been invited to represent the UK in the international [...]

A new housing development in Middleton is offering local people route into working in the construction industry. Sanctuary Group are working with Keepmoat to build 122 new homes in Middleton. Working in partnership with Employment Leeds and Construction and Housing Yorkshire the following opportunities are being made available to local people: Employment Pathway – including support [...]

Well, week two of the Community Reporters Course finds the famous five in Middleton Park on a photographic assignment. There was a hive of activity in the park today, so plenty of opportunities to get a decent shot of our wonderful and often underused park. Perhaps the pictures will encourage those who have never been [...]

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 [...]

Have you ever noticed that in every park you go to in Leeds, Golden Acre, Roundhay Park, Middleton Park, etc – if there is a water feature or lake you find Ducks swimming about, sitting down pruning their feathers, waddling along leaving deposits or flying off over the water as you get near to them. [...]

My photo shows the outside toilets for the old cottages still standing on Town Street. The cottages where built on instruction from Ms Maude to house workers who worked in the park. People were poor in the 1800s, especially park & cemetery workers. When Ms Maude died, she left Middleton Park to the Wades Trust [...]

Who would have thought I would get into Middleton Park and actually enjoy the beautiful scenery? The adventure could have been a lot more enjoyable and here is why. We all need some time out either on our own; with our friends or just enjoying the routine walks with our dogs. I adventured into Middleton [...]

Wade’s Charity owns a significant amount of land and property in Leeds, including Middleton Park, Gott’s Park, Snake Lane Recreation Ground, Woodhouse Square and Gott’s Mansion. The Council leases a number of these facilities on 999 year leases with managerial and maintenance responsibility. This partnership has helped meet the charity’s primary objectives of providing and [...]

The Friends of Middleton Park had a lot to talk about at their open meeting on Tuesday evening. Birdwatching, archeology, park improvements and their summer programme of activities were all covered. Graeme Ashton, Estates Officer, updated the meeting about work the Council had been doing in the park including a recent bird survey which had [...]

Our second Community Reporters course started today. It was a day of introductions. Five new students introduced themselves. As tutor, I introduced the idea of “hyperlocal blogging” and we looked at half a dozen sites from around the country and talked about how South Leeds Life has been developed over the last couple of years. [...]