Join Olympus Magazine for a Creative Light at Night Photography Workshop on Tuesday 17 December, at Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds, open to all photography fans. The location We’ll be meeting at the Gatehouse café opposite the Abbey at 3pm for introductions over coffee and to hear about the best techniques for creative night photography. This …
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Creative Light at Night Experience Day
December 12th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Creative Light at Night Experience Day)Heritage Singers carol concert in the Abbey this weekend
December 12th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Heritage Singers carol concert in the Abbey this weekend)
The Heritage Singers at Kirkstall Abbey will be performing christmas carols this weekend on 15 December 2013 2:00pm – 3:00pm in the Abbey church. The Heritage Singers is a 24 voice chamber choir based in Leeds. Our aims are to preserve and maintain the Anglican Choral tradition especially in rural areas, and also to provide service music …
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Mary, the Maid at the Inn
October 28th, 2013 | Posted by in History | Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Mary, the Maid at the Inn)
Mike Harwood, a local historian whose work we have published in past issues of Kirkstall Matters, has again provided us with an insight into local history. This time Mike delves into the suposed local legend of the popular ballad “Mary the Maid of the Inn”, trying to establish whether this was in fact based in …
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Kirkstall Abbey Gothic Film Festival
October 20th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Abbey Gothic Film Festival)
PREPARE FOR DARKNESS…CAMBRIDGE FILM TRUST AND BROADWAY NOTTINGHAM ANNOUNCE HALLOWEEN GOTHIC FILM FESTIVAL EXTRAVAGANZA AT KIRKSTALL ABBEY, LEEDS, 31st OCTOBER – 3rd NOVEMBER Kirkstall Abbey’s Gothic Film Festival set against the spectacular backdrop of the 12th century ruined Cistercian monastery in Leeds offers audiences a unique and terrifying Halloween trick or treat experience in this stunning, historic location. A …
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Kirkstall Abbey shortlisted for award
September 6th, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Abbey shortlisted for award)
Kirkstall Abbey has been shortlisted in the ‘Britain’s favourite heritage site’ category in the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2013. The 10 nominees in the favourite heritage site category were selected by Countryfile presenter John Craven, who said: “My first heritage site – I was brought up a couple of miles away and often went here as a child. One of Yorkshire’s …
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Classical Fantasia 7th September
August 21st, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Abbey - (Comments Off on Classical Fantasia 7th September)
As requested by many enquirers, we now have details we can publish for this year’s Classical Fantasia, performed in the backdrop of the illuminated Kirkstall Abbey, with a firework finale. This year the music will be performed by the Manchester Camerata – one of the UK’s leading chamber orchestras. Book your tickets here or phone 0113 224 …
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Momentous Filming at Kirkstall Festival 13 July 2013
July 2nd, 2013 | Posted by in Events | Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Momentous Filming at Kirkstall Festival 13 July 2013)
Leeds Inspired (www.leedsinspired.co.uk) will be at Kirkstall Festival with our pop up green screen to film festival goers, stall holders, performers and anyone else who want to be part of ‘Momentous’, a large scale projection that will transform the entire façade of Civic Hall into an animated mechanical clock for 3 nights in early October …
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Festival of Archaeology comes to Kirkstall Abbey
June 26th, 2013 | Posted by in Events | History | Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall Festival - (Comments Off on Festival of Archaeology comes to Kirkstall Abbey)
Come and take part in Kirkstall Abbey’s photography trail (photo trail), discovering how the Abbey looked in 1888 and contribute your own pictures of the Abbey today to their Flickr page. Feel free to use your own imagination to interpret Leeds industrialist Godfrey Bingley’s beautiful photos (see the example opposite and see more on the Flickr …
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Abbey House – Community Gallery
June 22nd, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall Matters | Our Community - (Comments Off on Abbey House – Community Gallery)
Abbey House Museum aim to involve people more in the way we plan and design our exhibitions. We are planning to change the existing nursery room into a community-themed gallery, and we want your ideas about what it should look like, and the best ways to get a range of local people involved. We will …
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Kirkstall Abbey Light Railway in Pictures
April 27th, 2013 | Posted by in History | Kirkstall Abbey | Our Community - (Comments Off on Kirkstall Abbey Light Railway in Pictures)
The KVCA has been provided with some excellent, nostalgic images from the Abbey Light Railway, enjoy!
End of the Line for the Abbey Light Railway
February 21st, 2013 | Posted by in Kirkstall Abbey | Local Issues | Our Community - (2 Comments)
Many of you will have been wondering what was going to happen to the Abbey Light Railway since Peter Lowe, who set it up and ran it from 1976, died in October. News broke on Tuesday in the Yorkshire Evening Post, that the locomotives themselves are being sold to the Welsh Highland Railway in Portmadog …
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Kirkstall Matters Issue 111 Now Uploaded
October 31st, 2012 | Posted by in Events | History | Kirkstall Abbey | Kirkstall Community First | Kirkstall Festival | Kirkstall In Bloom | Kirkstall Matters | Local Issues | Our Community | Policing | Sport - (2 Comments)As some of you will already know, after the introduction of a new team we decided to carry on with the Kirkstall Matters Magazine in its recent format for the last issue of the year. Those of you who are members will be receiving your copies posted through your doors over the next week but …
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