South Leeds Life

Community reporter Martyn White from Beeston  has sent us this article: I used to be a trainspotter, and yes I did wear an anorak. With a friend or two or by myself I used to go and watch the steam trains going past. There were quite a few places to go, I only lived a [...]

A celebration of the Middleton Schools History Project, which focused on the mining heritage of Middleton Park, was held at the new visitor centre at the park. The event was attended by MP Hilary Benn, Nick Rochford of the Heritage Lottery Fund, Councillor Judith Blake and Councillor Jack Dunn, and was hosted by pupils from [...]

Remember the special edition of South Leeds Life magazine which was put together by members of the Middleton Life community group last summer? And the wonderful exhibition chronicling Middleton’s history at Tenants Hall Enterprise Centre? Well, the Middleton Life group is set to start up again thanks to a grant from Community First. If you’re [...]

All the cinemas are gone! Where my friends and I went on a Saturday afternoon for the matinees, they’ve disappeared. They have either been knocked down or redeveloped, writes community reporter Martyn White. Often, on Saturday afternoons my friends and I would go to a matinee at one of the local cinemas. We had quite [...]

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 [...]

Marianne James has sent us this guest post about a special heritage project for primary school pupils in Middleton Park: Around 250 pupils from nine classes from six Middleton primary schools learned, over a period of four weeks, about archaeology and the mining history of Middleton Park through a series of interactive classroom based lessons [...]

Following on from part one of a nostalgic photo slideshow of hundreds of photos of Hunslet and it’s surrounding area, from a bygone age, last week (viewed over 150 times already), we now present Part 2. See how many places you recognise still standing, or what is long gone that you remember. Feel free to post [...]

Some time ago a disk of nostalgic Hunslet photos set to music was handed to the Hunslet Club to be shown on the big screen at a reunion event. We figured it deserves a wider audience for those interested in local history. These are not club images but images from throughout the 20th century of [...]

Some time ago a disk of nostalgic Hunslet photos set to music was handed to the Hunslet Club to be shown on the big screen at a reunion event. We figured it deserves a wider audience for those interested in local history. These are not club images but images from throughout the 20th century of [...]

Some time ago a disk of nostalgic Hunslet photos set to music was handed to the Hunslet Club to be shown on the big screen at a reunion event. We figured it deserves a wider audience for those interested in local history. These are not club images but images from throughout the 20th century of [...]