South Leeds Life

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. Friends of Middleton Park have loads going on – every Sunday until the end of September – and it’s all over on their Facebook page and website. You’ve already missed a bird walk and Tingley Brass Band, [...]

Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites and blogs. We don’t often quote Leeds Student, but they ventured to Holbeck to review Slung Low Theatre’s productions of Beulah and Some Small Love Story at their home, the HUB (Holbeck Underground Ballroom, under the viaduct). They gave it 5/5 describing [...]

As previously reported on South Leeds Life, BBC Radio 4 has made a documentary about the controversial poem “V”. V was written by Leeds-born poet Tony Harrison in response to a visit to his parents’ grave in Holbeck Cemetery in 1984. He found gravestones spray painted with four-letter words. The poem re-used that foul language [...]

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 your snowy photographs. Simply email [...]

Flat Cap Christmas – the real Christmas story with a Yorkshire twist Are you proud of your Yorkshire accent? Then celebrate the Christmas story as if it happened here in Yorkshire. Hear Mary’s story when the angel appeared while she was black-leading the stove. Jo’s rap about his journey to Bethlehem. The shepherds story, sung [...]

The Friends of Holbeck Cemetery recently won 105 trees cut from the Royal Household Estate to plant in the cemetery as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Today’s planting by the Friends of Holbeck Cemetery was attended by several members of the society, as well as representatives from both Holbeck in Bloom and Beeston [...]

Did you know that the Dogwood tree, or Cornus sanguinea as it’s known in Latin, played an important role in the textile industry? Or that Crataegus monogyna, the common Hawthorn, is also known as “Ske” in Old Irish, “Porn” in Old Norse and “Hag” in old English? No, neither did I until I visited Holbeck [...]

Ken Burton from the Friends of Holbeck Cemetery has posted a fascinating article on the group’s blog on the 19th century ‘uncrowned king of Holbeck’ Joseph Henry. Apparently the Friends gave a relative of Henry’s a guided tour recently and showed them his grave in the cemetery. Henry gave many years distinguished service to the people [...]

Here’s your weekly round-up of what’s making South Leeds tick on the area’sInternational publisher Amazon has published Eve Tidswell’s book ‘Focus on Holbeck in 1881′ in Kindle format, reports the Friends of Holbeck Cemetery. It’s a fabulous recognition of the work the Friends put in – well done all! The YEP follows on from a [...]

Do you want to be part of Holbeck’s history? Do you want to help make Holbeck Cemetery a more beautiful place for future generations in Beeston and Holbeck? writes Eve Tidswell. If your answer is ‘yes’ to either of these questions then come and join The Friends of Holbeck Cemetery, Holbeck in Bloom and Beeston in Bloom groups [...]