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May 26, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Wagon lifting hoist mini museum celebrates first year of success

Wellington Place is celebrating a milestone, having welcomed over 20,000 visitors to its unique Wagon Lifting Hoist Mini Museum in its first year. Visitors have come from across the globe – such as France, Germany, and Ireland, to as far afield as Brazil, China, and the USA - with many leaving their comments in the guestbook to mark their visit. Located on the ground floor of the Grade II listed lifting tower - one of the last remaining parts of the original Leeds Central Station – the museu

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May 21, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Yorkshire Sculpture Park's children's wartime art collection

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is delighted to announce that children’s artwork from its own National Arts Education Archive (NAEA) has been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Marking a major achievement for Yorkshire and the UK, the decision places YSP’s Franz Cižek Collection alongside globally significant documents such as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the Diary of Anne Frank. For more than seven years, YSP has played a leading role in a pan-European initiative to nomina

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May 19, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Northern Ballet's choreographic platform returns with Sketches

**Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds 3 & 4 June 2025 Following sell-out performances in 2024, Northern Ballet’s choreographic platform, Sketches, is returning to Leeds with a compelling programme that weaves together new works and a classic piece of ballet repertoire. Devised by artistic director Federico Bonelli, Sketches offers emerging choreographers a platform to workshop, create, and present new and innovative works. This year’s programme includes pieces from Northern Ballet arti

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May 19, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

City's tiny Saxon treasure has a big story to tell

A beautiful ancient Saxon pendant buried for more than 1,200 years in a Leeds field is giving experts a fascinating glimpse into life in early medieval Yorkshire. Believed to date from the eighth century, the gilded pectoral cross may have once been a badge of office for an important church leader or official and was unearthed last year by a metal detectorist. With one arm broken, and the central stone now missing, the cross is nevertheless a stunning example of metalwork, made from solid si

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May 19, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Celebrity guests unveiled for Great Yorkshire Show

Celebrities from the farming world have been unveiled for the Ariat GYS Stage at the 166th Great Yorkshire Show. TV presenters Helen Skelton and Matt Baker MBE, Rob and Dave Nicholson, of Cannon Hall Farm (which hosts Channel 5’s Springtime on the Farm series), and popular Peter Wright of Channel 5’s The Yorkshire Vet will appear on the Ariat GYS Stage in a series of chat shows hosted by TV presenter Christine Talbot. For the first time, the Fashion Show will also be held on the Ariat GYS St

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May 19, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

International exhibition loops, opens at Sunny Bank Mills in Leeds

Loops is a collaborative exhibition between Netherlands based textile artists Gea van Eck, Hanneke van Broekhoven and Monika Loster, and Yorkshire based artists Andi Walker, Hannah Robson and Jane Claire Wilson at the Sunny Bank Mills Art Gallery in Farsley, between Leeds and Bradford. A large-scale collaborative artwork Loops centres around the theme of cycles, circles and continuums and aims to showcase the artists’ exploration and embracing of the inherent tensions found whilst collaboratin

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May 16, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Sun records, the concert

On July 18, 1953, Presley first walked through the doors of the Memphis Recording Service at the Sun Record Company, now commonly known as Sun Records, paid $3.98 and recorded a double-sided demo acetate, ‘My Happiness’ and ‘That's When Your Heartaches Begin’. The rest became Rock’n’Roll history! Recognised worldwide as the birthplace of rock and roll, Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, is famed for discovering the pioneers of rock’n’roll – Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbi

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May 16, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Residence sets opening date for new cafe bar in North Leeds

Leeds café and bar brand Residence has revealed the opening date for its exciting new day-to-night concept in Moortown. The venue will open its doors to customers on Wednesday 21st May at 9am, bringing the comfort of a coffee shop combined with the sophistication of an evening cocktail bar, to the popular North Leeds suburb. By day, customers can expect fantastic coffee, mouth-watering breakfasts and delicious brunch dishes. At night, things heat up with an atmosphere that takes the bar from

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May 15, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

‘Pay what you feel’ to watch gripping play on domestic abuse

Award-winning theatre education company Soundproof Box is inviting guests to ‘pay what they feel’ for a series of forthcoming performances at Yorkshire venues. Soundproof Box recently won Small Social Enterprise of the Year at the Social Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber Awards, which celebrate businesses that create positive change in communities. Best known for its powerful Lottery-funded show Red Flags, it explores social issues affecting communities and workplaces through interactive theatre

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May 12, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Yorkshire Sculpture Park unveils creative adventures for families this half term

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) invites families and art lovers to dive into a week of creativity, play, and discovery this May half term. With a packed programme designed for all ages, YSP is the ultimate destination for families seeking fresh air, fun, and inspiration in the heart of Yorkshire’s stunning 500-acre landscape. Half Term Highlights: Sculpture Adventures in the Hidden Forest (29 & 30 May, 11am–3:30pm, free): Let imaginations run wild as little ones explore, create, and play unde

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May 7, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Couple's historic wedding day is picture perfect

When happy couple Charlotte and Matthew Harrison tied the knot in Temple Newsam House’s stunning Picture Gallery, it was a love story more than a century in the making. The historic ceremony saw the newlyweds become the first people to be married in the gallery’s beautiful surroundings in over a hundred years. Originally designed centuries ago to act as an “indoor garden” for the house’s aristocratic residents, the room’s spectacular floral theme instead became the ideal backdrop for what wa

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May 6, 2025|Fashion and Lifestyle

Countdown on to the Great Yorkshire Show 2025

State-of-the-art tractors, an Aberdeen Angus bull and some famous faces joined forces to launch the countdown to this year’s Great Yorkshire Show. This year will see the Show host five national breed shows, with Aberdeen Angus, Longhorn and Charolais cattle and Zwartbles and Kerry Hills in the sheep section. To mark the Presidency of Geoff Brown MBE, chairman of Ripon Farm Services, two of the latest John Deere tractors took up prime position in the Main Ring which will also be on display at

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