If you’d like to get some inspiration when it comes to Grow Your Own join us at Hollybush Conservation Centre for a day of growing themed activity. Hollybush Conservation Centre will be open from 12noon until 4.00pm offering people the chance to see the vegetable gardens, take inspiration for their own growing projects, ask advice …
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TCV – Build a Scarecrow at our Get Growing Day 28th April 2013
April 27th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Our Community - (Comments Off on TCV – Build a Scarecrow at our Get Growing Day 28th April 2013)Burley RUFC
April 5th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters | Sport - (Comments Off on Burley RUFC)Hi All, Please find below an article I have missed from the last edition of Kirkstall Matters. My sincere apologies to Duncan Elsey who took the time to put this together! Read on to find out what the Burley RUFC have been up to since the last edition of KM…. League games of which 6 …
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Kirkstall Councillor’s Heart Surgery Scandal
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters | Local Issues - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Councillor’s Heart Surgery Scandal)In the last issue of Kirkstall Matters, we reported that an application to take the decision for closure of the Leeds Children’s Heart Surgery Unit to the High Court for a Judicial Review had been submitted. We have been following this story closely, due to the impact it has on Leeds and our local community, …
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Hawksworth Wood Primary School… Additional articles KM112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters | Our Community | Schools/Kids - (Comments Off on Hawksworth Wood Primary School… Additional articles KM112)NBT Project: A Blurb From Hawksworth Wood. As part of our 5 week dance project with the great Northern Ballet, we were asked to write a blurb for their website covering the week’s event. Here is our week 5 blurb. We were so eager to start, that we had got changed and we were warming up even …
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Crooked Acres – Mike Harwood History… Full Article KM112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in History | Kirkstall Matters - (Comments Off on Crooked Acres – Mike Harwood History… Full Article KM112)As mentioned in KM112, amateur historian Mike Harwood has been researching Kirkstall’s stately home, Crooked Acres. The full article is actually the full historical work that Mike has put together. As it is large I will be publishing it online as it came to me, in three parts. You can read a synopsis below, these …
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A Year on Church Lane Allotments – 2012… Full Article KM112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters | Our Community - (Comments Off on A Year on Church Lane Allotments – 2012… Full Article KM112)After bringing the old abandoned allotments behind the Woodbridge estate back into use at the start of 2011 and all growing plenty of veg, we allotmenteers looked forward to more of the same easy growing in 2012. Perhaps it was just beginners luck or even greater expectations of what we thought we might be able …
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Kirkstall Community Garden Project… Full Article KM112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters | Our Community - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Community Garden Project… Full Article KM112)Since becoming involved in the Kirkstall community I have noticed that care for our environment and the ‘good life’ is high on many people’s agenda. There are a variety of local clubs and associations that aim to promote healthy living and the regeneration of greenery in our urban space such as Kirkstall in Bloom and …
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Kirkstall Abbey and the Italian Banks… Full Article KM112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in History | Kirkstall Matters - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Abbey and the Italian Banks… Full Article KM112)John Battle’s historical article on Kirkstall Abbey and the Italian Banks, in full here on Kirkstall Online: Having moved down from their monastic community in Barnoldswick where “their fruits and grain were repeatedly destroyed by great rains and the badness of the soil”, Abbot Seleth settled the new Kirkstall Abbey on the hermits’ site in …
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Kirkstall Valley Flood Prevention… Full Article KM112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters | Local Issues | Our Community - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Valley Flood Prevention… Full Article KM112)The recent news that Leeds is to benefit from flood defences has met with mixed feelings for those who live along the River Aire, not least with those who live in the Kirkstall Valley. Are these defences necessary and are they likely to impact on the green space that Kirkstall currently enjoys? This report looks …
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Hawksworth Wood Secures £1m Funding… Full Article from KM112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters | Our Community - (Comments Off on Hawksworth Wood Secures £1m Funding… Full Article from KM112)Hawksworth Wood, has secured £1m of funding from the Local Trust programme, Big Local. The Hawksworth Wood area includes the Hawksworth Wood Estate, the Abbeydales the Vesper Gates and all the houses contained in the bend of Vesper Road. Big Local is an exciting opportunity for residents to use £1m of funding to make a …
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Kirkstall Matters Issue 112
March 30th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Matters - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Matters Issue 112)
Dear Readers, The latest issue of Kirkstall Matters will be coming through your doors any day now. You will notice that the format has changed from the past couple of years, this is mainly to make it more manageable and due to cost considerations. You will notice on certain articles throughout that there are boxes …
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Kirkstall Forum – Tuesday 12th March
March 6th, 2013 | Posted by in Local Issues | Our Community | Policing - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Forum – Tuesday 12th March)Dear Readers, The next Kirkstall Forum will be held on Tuesday 12th March 2013, 6.30pm – 8.30pm at Milford Sports Club. The forum meeting will continue the use of the workshop format where attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the agenda items in small groups; confirmed for attendance are representatives from Environmental Services, West …
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