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Hello and welcome to this month’s Covered – the magazine for the Leeds suburbs.

We’ve got a slightly new look for you this month – I hope you like it. I’m not a hardcore perfectionist, I’m far too easy going for that, but I’m never happy unless I’m tinkering with something. The slight change of brand for Covered reflects our standing as a magazine that criss-crosses the city (6 editions per month across 15 postcodes) and although our commitment to hyper-local news remains intact, I hope you’ll enjoy reading news and views from all around the Leeds suburbs. Whilst compiling previous editions, I’ve often thought that readers in other areas would love to know what’s going on in this area and that you’d like to know about other parts of the city too.

I’m hopeful that by mixing up the editorial a little, you’ll get to know more about events and activities in other parts and that readers across the city will be encouraged to visit the shops and businesses in this area too.

As always, my eyes and ears are always open to your valued suggestions so if you’d like to see more of one thing and less of another then please do drop me a line or give me a call.

If you haven’t submitted an image for our Photo Competition yet (see P39) then get snapping! We’ve had quite a response already and we’ll begin to include your photos soon!

The deadline for editorial submissions and listings in our Really Useful Guide is 02/04/14. The advertising deadline is 04/04/14.

Until next month,

04 food & drink 16 Property Matters 25 The Really USeful Guide 30 Garden guru 46 Advertising Directory

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Mrs Gales Imagine a traditional, English tea-room, the type you’d often find hidden deep in The Cotswolds… well, now you don’t have to go that far… Mrs Gales offers you just that, right here, on Street Lane in Leeds.

Complete with mismatched china, tea cosies and lace doilies, Mrs Gales brings a touch of elegant nostalgia to this bustling area and offers a welcome retreat from busy everyday life. Opened in late December 2013 by friends Francesca Davis and Lucia Scaife, this is something more than just your average café; Mrs Gales is billed as a tea-room, meeting place and emporium and sells quality, vintage memorabilia and clothing in addition to tempting customers with an array of fine teas, cakes and light meals.

It all began when the friends met at a local fair, through a

love of vintage clothing. They joined forces with Marilyn Gale, another friend of Fran’s, who was keen to start a business which could support and provide resources towards the fight against melanoma cancer, an illness from which Marilyn suffered, and the idea of the tea-room was born. Very sadly, Marilyn passed away before seeing her dream become a reality, though her husband David carried on his wife's wishes and became landlord, renovating the premises so that Fran and Lucia could continue with the plan.

Very fittingly, they decided upon the name Mrs Gales as a tribute to their late friend and money

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from the venture goes directly to ‘M’ for Melanoma, a charity set up to work with the oncology department at nearby St James’ Hospital.

Walking through the door now, you are greeted by the most fantastic chandelier and a mannequin wearing Victorian silk finery, much of which is for sale. Traditional style lights also hang from the walls and old style radiators blend well with grandfather clocks and antique wooden chests. And there’s something fantastically eccentric about the baby changing facilities… a genuine Silver Cross pram, complete with changing matt. There is a happiness in the air and warmth and hospitality flows easily about the place. Fran tends mainly to the customers with a cheery and respectful manner, whilst Lucia is usually seen working away in the kitchen, carefully creating beautiful cakes and dishes. This is certainly no fast food establishment. Everything here is made freshly to order and special requirements will be catered for wherever possible. Provision is made for

vegetarians and there is also a gluten free range of breads, bagels and porridge. Facilities for disabled customers are good too, with a purpose made ramp and accessible toilet.

Cakes are freshly made daily and the choice varies, but the chocolate cake is especially delicious…and fat-free. There is a specials board which offers a home-made soup of the day, with unusual choices such as spinach or butterbean making an appearance, and traditional dishes such as corned beef hash.

Healthy options such as poached eggs are available and also a good range of sandwiches such

as smoked salmon or homemade hummus with pitta bread.

Mrs Gales is a wonderful venue for every occasion, including business meetings (with free WiFi available), family gatherings and afternoon tea parties. Now fully licensed, they are also looking at hosting events such as champagne celebration parties and have a spacious area downstairs with it’s own facilities. The Lord Mayor is visiting on 1st March for an official opening and we have a feeling that many more people will follow.

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5 large eggs, 250g caster sugar, 200g chocolate, 200g plain flour, 200ml milk, 1 tsp baking powder, pinch salt, tin condensed milk, 62g cocoa powder, 400g (empty condensed milk tin) milk, chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 170c. Melt chocolate before letting cool. Separate egg whites from yolks and beat together yolks with sugar before gradually adding the melted chocolate. Add milk gradually, beating all the time, then fold in the sieved flour. Beat the egg whites, with the salt, until you form soft peaks. Fold into the chocolate mixture. Place in a greased tin and bake for 55 minutes. To prepare the filling, put condensed milk in a pan with the cocoa powder and mix well. Add milk and stir constantly until you have a thick paste. Set aside to cool. Once the cake and filling are cool, cut cake in half and fill, reserving some filling for the top and sides of the cake. Decorate with chocolate chips.

250g unsalted butter, 200g caster sugar, 4 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract, juice 1 lemon, grated zest 2 lemons, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, 50g ground almonds, 280g plain flour

Preheat oven 180c. Beat butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition, before adding vanilla, lemon juice and zest. Mix together dry ingredients and fold into mixture. Pour into greased tin and bake for around 40 minutes. To make the glaze, combine lemon juice and icing sugar, enough to make a thick mixture, and pour over the cooled cake, letting it drip down the sides.

75g butter, chilled and cut into cubes, plus extra for greasing, 350g self raising flour, 1 1â „2 tsp baking powder, 30g caster sugar, 75g sultanas, 150ml milk, 2 eggs, beaten

Preheat oven 200c. Lightly grease baking tray. Put flour and baking powder into mixing bowl. Add the butter and rub in lightly and quickly with your fingertips until mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.

Stir in the sugar and sultanas. Pour 100ml of milk and most of the beaten egg into the mixture. Mix together with a knife to a soft dough, adding a bit more milk if needed. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and lightly knead just a few times only until gathered together. Gently roll out to around 2cm deep. Cut out rounds and place on baking tray, spaced slightly apart. Glace with reserved egg and bake for around 10 minutes. Serve with jam and cream.

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Buying Local Buying local produce can give levels of assurance and satisfaction that supermarkets and major brands are still trying hard to match. Some buy in the names of celebrity chefs or TV personalities. Some celebs go it alone, by marketing products that have little or nothing to do with their on-screen personae.

But it’s never the same as establishing a rapport with a local butcher or grocer or, in the case of markets, with the producers themselves.

Feather’s Poultry, also known as Egg Man Skipton on social media, is a long established

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family business selling a wide range of breeds and types of poultry and their eggs. Not only chicken, but also duck, goose, rhea and quail. Richard and Sue Feather had decided to branch outside their immediate locality and, before Christmas, gave Otley boot sale a try – perhaps they had heard of the hundred-yards-plus public queues formed by noon on fine Sundays. It must have worked for them – they are there every Sunday, always visible from the entry gate.

Sue Feather at Otley boot in February

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The Second Otley Word Feast 2014 The second Otley Word Feast 28-30 March 2014, celebrating the written and spoken word has something for everyone and many events are free to attend. The Grand Opening Feast at Korks Wine Bar, 7.00pm on Friday 28 March includes the Town Mayor's prize-giving for the adult winners of the 'Market' writing competition, performances by local writers, music and a delicious supper. Children's prizes will be awarded in Otley Library on Saturday 29 March.

Saturday's programme is wide-ranging, from a Kickstart Your Writing Breakfast at The Bowling Green.

Then there are inspirational writing workshops for all levels of experience, speakers, children's activities in Otley Library, an Open Mic session and exciting poetry Slam for young people. Sonnets and Scones features afternoon tea with James Nash and there are many free events for all ages. In association with Otley Courthouse, there will be a performance of 'Standing in Line' at the Courthouse.

On Sunday, there is a leisurely Walk with Words, led

by Otley Walkers and a Gruffalo Walk for children.

In addition, Otley Word Feast Press will launch their poetry anthology 'Spokes' at Korks Wine Bar. This

Audience at the 2012 Grand Opening Feast at Korks Wine Bar

celebrates all things cycling, with the Tour de France 2014 Grand DĂŠpart passing through Otley in July.

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No Meetup with Leeds Live Music and Art Lovers As part of our ongoing look at Leeds Meetup groups, all organised online via social media, we decided to connect with Leeds Live Music and Art Lovers. The group has over 800 members with as many as five meetups each week, mainly music and for a wide variety of tastes. They had a meetup planned for Sunday 9 February – at 1230 in the 1853 Gallery at Salts Mill, Shipley. The plan was to start there and go on to all the other art, industrial heritage and retail galleries spread over several floors of the immense Victorian mill.

Then join for coffee in one of the mill’s restaurants or cafés. But things didn’t go according to plan – neither theirs nor ours.

Apart from Salts Mill’s own art and industrial heritage displays, there are several other art, cultural, design and leisure retail outlets – this early C20th fine art bronze was on show in Carlton Antiques (2nd floor).

Rules of engagement One group member had discovered that 1853 Gallery was closed for refurbishment. Not a problem – at least for those who checked the group’s web pages that morning. Plan B – meet at 1325 on the second floor. But the building is immense and full of art lovers – just where on the second floor? It wasn’t like meeting other groups such as mountain bikers, photographers or cake-bakers. There were no clues. We missed them.

Plan C Make the most of it. Not only is Salts Mill a remarkably well preserved monument to

A feature about the latest Hockney exhibition at Salts Mill was frustrated by David Hockney Inc’s reproduction fees – it would have cost $3200 to use this one...

Yorkshire’s textiles industry, it also houses a vast collection of original paintings by David Hockney. So, why not photograph and review the latest Hockney exhibition “25 Trees and Other Pictures”?

pic here, unaltered, would have cost us $3200 - not far short of £2000. Sorry folks - you’ll have to see them for yourselves. And, with the 1853 Gallery back in play, there’s even more to see.

Sadly Plan C also ground to a halt after we approached the Los Angeles based David Hockney Inc for clearance to publish. The reproduction fee is $400 for each of his pictures. So the use of the

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Cheap bananas threaten farmers’ futures This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight highlighted the plight of banana farmers by launching the Make Bananas Fair campaign and I was fortunate to meet Albeiro Alfonso ‘Foncho’ Cantillo, a banana grower from Columbia, to discuss this cause. Cheap bananas threaten farmers’ futures in developing countries and we can all play our part by choosing to buy fairtrade bananas.

In the UK, we eat over 5 billion bananas a year and one can be bought from a supermarket for as little as 10p; however in reality it is the banana producers who are paying the ultimate price for our bargain fruits. Over the past 10 years the typical price of a banana has nearly halved whilst the costs of production have doubled.

Supermarket price wars have undoubtedly caused adverse consequences by fuelling poverty amongst farmers. Bananas are now sold so cheaply that many banana farmers are becoming trapped in a cycle of poverty, resulting in some being unable to afford to feed their families or pay for basic necessities. The Make Bananas Fair campaign aims to transform the banana industry and guarantee that struggling banana farmers get a fairer deal for their produce.

Fairtrade is already making a real difference to the lives of millions of people in the developing world by

STUART ANDREW MP Along with many people in the area, I am deeply concerned about the possible introduction of new charges at railway station car parks in and around Leeds including those in my constituency at Horsforth, Guiseley and New Pudsey stations.

Hard working commuters already pay to travel on the train and I believe that the prospect of their journey becoming more expensive is unacceptable.

It is important to recognise that additional funding is needed as taxpayers already face a huge bill to subsidise the Northern Rail network and it is only right to seek to reduce that burden. However, I am very worried about the impact that any immediate charges to car parking will have on the streets and neighbourhoods surrounding our stations and the highways as commuters may go back to driving to work in their cars.

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ensuring that farmers get fair remuneration for their produce, as well as receiving funding that they can invest in projects in their communities.

I cannot stress how important it is to get behind the Fairtrade initiative and demand change for farmers in developing countries.

These countries need to develop their economies and this can only happen if they are properly rewarded for the fruits of their labours. Fairtrade is committed to better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.

You can get involved by opting to buy fairtrade products which help millions of people in the developing world. Farmers deserve a reasonable price for their produce and that’s why I’m helping Foncho to make bananas fair.

Greg Mulholland MP, Wainwright House, 12 Holt Park Centre, Holt Road LS16 7SR info@gregmulholland.org of State for Transport at New Pudsey Station and showed him what an integral part the station plays in keeping Leeds moving. So when I first heard about these charging proposals I immediately went to meet him at the Department for Transport to express my concerns. As he had seen these facilities first hand I was then in a better position to further explain the problems that such charges could bring.

I was pleased that the Transport Secretary listened to these concerns and he has promised to come back to me and I, of course, will ensure that everyone is updated on this.

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'Morning Mists' by Phil Hunter featured in the monochrome section of the LPS in house competition Machinery/Technology in February

The Leeds Photographic Society News The coming month will feature the society's Annual Exhibition competitions which will bring the club's Photographer of the Year series to an exciting conclusion and in addition to this, there are also the final two rounds of the West Riding Inter-club competition to

run. The LPS is currently holding second place in this series.

at the Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice in Headingley.

The society's activities extend to far more than photographic competitions though, and as well as hosting a range of talks by visiting speakers, the society also participates in community projects. Currently members are in the process of creating 12 wall displays to decorate a new ward

The society meets on Tuesdays at 7.30 pm. in St Edmund’s Church Hall, Lidgett Park Road, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 1JN. Please visit http://www.lps1852. co.uk/ for more details and you can also follow the Society on Facebook at http://www.facebook. com/lps1852and Twitter @lps1852

Leeds Carnegie on Way to Play-Offs Leeds Carnegie RUFC consolidated their challenge for promotion with a 27 – 18 home win over London Scottish on 2 March. The win left them in second place in the Championship and with a cushion of 13 points over the fifth-placed London side – the play-offs for the single Premiership promotion place are between the top four.

Carnegie’s next big test is on 23 March when they entertain current leaders Bristol.

Carnegie’s match against London Scottish was a series of touchline scrambles. Here Carnegie’s Dave Sisi (top left) was denied at the last moment by London Scottish forward Adam Kwasnicki. Carnegie won a penalty seconds later, converted by Alex Lozowski and giving them a nine point advantage shortly after half-time (picture Ivor Hughes)

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Out with the Old – In with the Older Architectural salvage became big business in the nineties. It had little to do with recycling or being green. It was about being different and recognising that modern mass (re) production overseas rarely matches the quality of, say, traditional British craftsmanship in wood, metal, stone or ceramics. And, with a little imagination, better could actually be cheaper.

People were restoring original features rather than replacing them – stripping the day-glo paint from pine doors, floors and skirting boards. Building a barbecue – why not use that pile of old bricks at the end of the garden? Raising the garden borders – what about retrieving some old scaffolding boards from the fly tipping site on the edge of town – saving the council a job. Or a few old railway sleepers that the local scrap yard sells for a couple of quid? But that was then.

The values of items such as large old enamelled cast iron baths that once scrapped for a tenner have risen exponentially.

Bathroom, garden and kitchen artefacts are always popular

Retro features prominently at Ripley

But they can still cost less than today’s state of the art designer equivalents.

There are still opportunities to combine quality and economy.

One place to find that old fire surround, garden bench or set of old kitchen tiles will be Arthur Swallow Fairs’ third annual Decorative Home and Salvage

Show at Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, on 17 and 18 May. No, the castle isn’t having a clear out. Some adjacent fields are being transformed into the only architectural salvage event in the northeast, with up to 100 dealers showing the best they have. There is a short and informative video about the event on asfairs.com

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SPEEDY SALES BOOST MARKET Homes across Yorkshire are being let or sold more and more quickly, latest research has revealed.

While the rental market has always been buoyant with demand outstripping supply in many areas, increased customer confidence and better access to mortgages has given house sales a new lift.

So much so that on average it is taking eightand-a-half weeks to shake hands on an agreed sales price – that’s two weeks quicker than this time last year and the fastest time since the prerecession days of 2007.

The fall – which amounts to a fifth – signals a positive start to 2014 for home sellers, and with the peak buying time of Spring just around the corner the market is looking for further improvement.

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Spotted at:

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Name:

Eleanor Snare

Lives:

Headingley

Style:

Eclectic

Favorite local brand: Mad Elizabeth

Style Icon:

Tilda Swinton

Occupation:

Copywriter/Fashion Blogger

Style Comments:

Eleanor definitely knows her stuff, casually wearing her midnight coloured faux fur coat with vibrant blue jeans. Her short edgy haircut and geek style glasses also give a bold statement and make her outfit all together quirkier.

Spotted at:

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Name:

Carly Blade & Danni Gaynor

Lives:

Chapel Allerton & Shadwell

STYle: Classy

Favorite local brand: Aqua, Oaks

Lower Briggate

Name:

Stefan Jemeel

Lives: Adel

Style:

All black everything

Favorite local brand: Best

Style Icon:

Style Icon:

Kanye West

Occupation:

Stylist

Cheryl Cole, Sienna Miller Fashion Buyer, Teacher

Style Comments:

Carly and Danni rock their classic LBD and black playsuit. Showing that less is more in some situations as they both looks so glamorous.

Carly’s gold pointed heels really complement her LBD black and gold together are a powerful combination!

Occupation: Style Comments:

Stefan only wears black and white, as he thinks simple is more effective, he prefers to stand out by using texture clashing rather than colours. He manages to pull off double leather without making it look over the top.

Fashion, Hair & Beauty

Spotted at:

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Name:

Nicole Mignott

Lives:

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Style: Street

Favorite local brand: Best

Style Icon: Rihanna

Occupation: Student

Style Comments:

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Spotted at:

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Name:

Emily Weir

Lives:

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Style:

Sporty, Tomboy

Favorite local brand: Blue Rinse

Style Icon: Tulisa

Occupation:

Unemployed

Style Comments:

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The key is to get a healthy balance of all of the aforementioned food groups as they each provide essential nutrients for a healthy diet. If you treat your body like an F1 car for example, if you put the wrong fuel in you won't perform to your best, it's as simple as that.

That's great for some people, but others of you will be thinking 'but

Nutrition.org.uk states that there are 5 groups on their 'eatwell' plate and these are as follows: • Bread, rice, potatoes, pasta and other starchy foods • Fruit and vegetables • Milk and dairy products • Meat, fish, eggs, beans and other non-dairy sources of protein • Foods and drinks high in fat and/or sugar

i'm gaining muscle quicker than the Hulk gets angry, should I be eating more and what in the world is creatine?'

Protein consumption is key for gaining and retaining muscle and wikihow.com states that 'the rule of thumb is to eat between 1 and 1.5 times your body weight in grams of protein'. (If you are overweight then this amount should be substituted for your target body weight). Therefore, eggs, chicken, steak, fish and dairy products are most definitely on the menu. Quorn products are a good protein substitute for vegetarian if needed. Protein

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alone is not enough however, think back to the 'eatwell' plate, this needs to be supplemented and nothing supplements protein better than (moderated) slow release carbohydrates which come in the form of brown rice, whole wheat pasta and sweet potatoes.

If preparing and eating meal after meal after meal is too time consuming and you need a quick protein fix during your lunch break workout, then this is where protein powders come into play and there are a lot on the saturated supplement market. To find out what is best for you, read around the subject online or call into a local health store.

If you see your routine starting to take a hit and you're not seeing as much growth then creatine (different to protein powders)

helps to release more energy meaning you can go for more reps which, in turn, builds more muscle and retains the water in your muscle cells adding weight.

That was your crash course in healthy eating and supplementation to aid muscle growth and raise health levels. Remember though the key point here is to be healthy and look after yourself – don't go too big too early and the word 'supplement' means exactly that, it is there to live alongside, and offer help towards, your healthy, balanced diet.

Written by Daniel Roberts (@DannyRoberts74) Sponsored by Trinity Fitness Sports Centre Tel: 0113 283 7155, www.trinityfitness.co.uk

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Grassington Farmers Market Grassington Village Centre, North Yorkshire, BD23 5LB 3rd Sunday of every month 9am-2.30pm www.northerndalesfarmersmarkets.com

Guiseley Farmers Market

The Station Pub, 70 Otley Road, Guiseley, LS20 8BH 3rd Sunday of every month 9am-1.30pm

Headingley Farmers Market

Rose Garden, North Lane, LS6 3JJ 2nd Saturday of every month 9am-12.30pm

Food, Drink & Farmers Markets Bramhope Farmers Market

Robert Craven Memorial Hall, Old Lane Bramhope, LS16 9AZ 2nd Saturday of every month 10am-1pm

Briggate Farmers & Craft Market

Briggate, Leeds City Centre 1st & 3rd Sunday of every month 10am-4pm

Chapel Allerton Farmers Market

Three Hulats Pub, 13 Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, LS7 3NB Last Sunday of every month 9am-1pm

Chippendales Indoor Market

The Old Grammar School, Manor Square, Otley, LS21 3AY Last Sunday of the month, 9am-3pm Chippendale's Indoor market is a market run inside the gallery. With over 15 traders selling anything from jams, pickles, chilled meats and crafts its well worth visiting.

Designer Craft Fair

Otley Courthouse, LS21 3AN Last Sunday of the month 9.30am-1pm.

Lovely handmade crafts, fairtrade tea & coffee & yummy snacks www.otleycourthouse.org.uk

Horsforth Farmers Market

St Margarets Primary, Town Street, LS18 5BL 1st Saturday of every month 9am-12.30pm www.horsforthfarmersmarket.co.uk

Kirkstall Deli Market

Kirkstall Abbey, LS5 3EH Last Saturday of every month, 12midday-3pm

Oakwood Farmers Market

Around the Oakwood Clock (junction of Oakwood Lane/Roundhay Road/ Princes Avenue/Wetherby Road) 3rd Saturday of every month 9am-12.30 www.oakwoodfarmersmarket.com

Otley Farmers Market

Market Square, Otley, LS21 3AQ Last Sunday of every month 9am-1pm

Skipton Farmers Market

Skipton Canal Basin, BD23 1st Sunday of every month 9am-2.30pm www.northerndalesfarmersmarkets.com

OTLEY GREEN FAIR

Otley Courthouse, Courthouse Street, on Saturday 5th April from 10am to 4pm.

Entrance is free. Variety of stalls - charities, crafts, local and national campaigns and environmental groups, and taster sessions in alternative therapies. Children’s art workshop, from 1 – 3pm, with a ‘Tour de France’theme. Entertainment from two Morris sides, ‘Flashdance’in the morning and ‘Clogaire’ in the afternoon. The cafe will serve Fairtrade snacks and drinks, locally produced food from Bondgate Bakery, and lots of vegetarian options.

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St Chad’s Hall, Otley Road Leeds LS16 5JT 8pm Tuesday 1 April – short AGM followed by members Spring Show plus Gordon Kirby and Joe Maiden’s demonstration. 8pm Tues 6 May ‘Hanging Basket Demonstration’ by Gillian Gill. Membership is £12 per yr single and £18 per yr double. This gives entry to 10 Events evenings at St Chad’s and free admission to our 150th Anniversary of Leeds Flower Show at The Grammar School Leeds on 2nd/3rd August.

New members are always welcome –join at the Events evening. Enquiries Pat 0113 2250030 or www.leedshs.org.uk

Friends of Lawnswood Cemetery Action Days

First Saturday of every month to help tidy the cemetery. Under the supervision of a Parks & Countryside Ranger, Meet 10am in the main car park (on Otley Road).

Tools & hot drinks provided.Details: friendsoflawnswoodcemetery@yahoo.co.uk or Ann on 0113 261 1363.

National Vegetable Society

The next meeting at Paxton Hall, 186 Kirkstall Lane, Headingley, Leeds LS5 2AB. 8pm Tuesday 8th April, Mike Davey of Nottingham will give a talk on “The history of allotment gardening”.

Free entry, all welcome.

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THE YORKSHIRE FAR EAST VETERANS GROUP

ASSOCIATIONS, CLUBS, GROUPS & SOCIETIES Meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30, at the Pomegranate Cafe on Great George St, Leeds. LS1 3BR. Just turn up to join us. @LeedsFoE

New Headingley Club, St Michaels Road, Headingley, LS6 3BG Meet 2nd Tuesday of each month. 12.30pm for 1pm start. We are a new group and we welcome any member or ex member and civilian ancillary who have served in the Far East at any time. Enquiries to Secretary Eddie Seville: 0113 2637583

Aireborough Camera Club

Leeds & Bradford Friendship Group

Leeds Friends of the Earth

Guiseley Theatre, The Green, Guiseley Wednesdays 7:45pm from September to May. A small friendly camera club with a varied programme of talks and competitions - new members are always welcome. For further information please visit: www.aireboroughcameraclub.co.uk

British Association for German Shepherd Dogs (BAGSD) Carr Road, Calverley LS28 5NE Sundays: 10am-10.45am (advanced handlers and dogs).

11am-11.45am (puppies, beginners and intermediate handlers and dogs).

Enquiries: Branch Secretary & Instructor John Hepworth – 07974 654402

Pudsey Civic Hall, LS28 5TA 1st Wednesday of the month. 1.30pm.

Speaker or entertainment. Activities for people of retirement age. Days out/dining/ walks etc.. New members welcome.

Enquiries: 0113 2585955 or 0113 2675657

North Leeds Model Flying Club Call for venue and times.

New members welcome. Building or flying, plenty of friendly advice.

Enquiries: 0113 2178348 Wharfedale & District Aeromodeller’s Club. Salem Hall, Main Street, Burley in Wharfedale. First Friday of each month 8pm. Control-line flying each Sunday.

Juniors and beginners welcome Enquiries: Chairman John Horton 01943 863438

Burley Wildlife Group

Sun Lane Nature Reserve, Burley in Wharfedale 1st Sunday of every month 10am1pm. New members please call ahead.

Promoting the conservation and management of wildlife areas in the village, also advice on wildlife issues Enquires: Peter Riley 01943 862916

THE THURSDAY GROUP, ILKLEY

Outside The Box Café, 2 Bridge Lane, Ilkley LS29 9HN 2nd Thursday of the month, 7.00 pm A friendly social and charity fundraising group for men and ladies meeting for speakers, meals out, bowling nights, theatre visits. New members and visitors welcome.

Enquiries: Rose 01943 817827 or Shirley 01943 609997

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ART, MUSIC, DANCE & ENTERTAINMENT Menston Arts Club Exhibition

Kirkland Community Centre, Main St, Menston, Leeds LS29 6HT Sat and Sun 10th and 11th May Exhibition of Art and Craft Sat 10.30am - 5pm Sunday 10.30am - 4.30pm Admission Free, Refreshments available

Combined Art Exhibition

Manor House Ilkley Burley Art Club/Menston Art Club Sat 15th March- 1st June Cycling and Tour De France Theme Thurs-Sat 11am-5pm Sunday 11am - 4pm Admission Free

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Stuart Townend in Concert

One of today’s leading worship songwriters.

Wednesday 21 May - 7.30pm at Otley Methodist Church. £12.50. For Tickets email rick.ormrod@methodist.org.uk. Or send SAE with payment to 2 The Cedars, Bramhope LS16 9EA. Booking essential.

Burley Art Club

Parish Centre, 43 Station Rd, Burley in Wharfedale LS29 7JL Tuesday evenings from 7.30 to 9.30pm.

The group meets on at either the Red Lion or St Mary’s Parish Centre.

Enquiries: Greg Learmouth – 01943 864924

Chippendale Singers

Methodist Church, Boroughgate, Otley.

Wednesday evenings 7.45pm – 9.30pm.

Mixed choir voice, folk songs, spiritual and songs from shows. Looking for Male Singers & Alto's (music readers essential).

Enquiries: Chris Denton 0113 2843744 chrisjdenton@gmail.com or to book choir Jan Wilkinson 01943 461318

Ilkley Art Club

The Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Road, Ilkley, Tuesdays 7.30 pm. There is a full and varied programme and membership is now open. Prospective new members are welcome to go along for a free taster session. Enquiries please email: ilkleyartclub@live.com or tel: Paul Shaw on 07771 754605

Ilkley Choral Society/Otley Choral Society St Margaret’s Church, Queens Road, Ilkley, LS29 9QL Enquiries: Sirje – 07930 329847

Life Drawing Art Group

Old Stables, Back Church Lane, Adel Tuesdays 10.30am – noon. New members and all abilities are welcome to come and draw a variety of life models.

Enquiries: Laurence 07856 735179

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The Leeds Haydn Players Concert

Clothworkers Hall at Leeds University Sunday 30th March at 3pm Ruth Waterman, international violinist and conductor, will return to her home town of Leeds to conduct the Leeds Haydn Players.

In a programme designed to show the oftenneglected links between three major composers of the 18th century- Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn. Ruth will use the orchestra to illustrate the music with a short talk. Tickets can be purchased for £10 from Robin Jakeways 01943 466 331 email r.jakeways@btopenworld.com

Sinfonia Leeds

The Great Hall, Leeds University Saturday 22nd March 2014 at 7.30.

Tchaikovsky: Overture "Hamlet". Walton: Viola Concerto. Tchaikovsky:The Nutcracker (Act 2) Soloist: David Aspin. Conductor: David Greed. Tickets: The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds-0113 2243801 or on the door or sinfoniaofleeds.eventbrite.com

Sports, Health & Wellbeing Good Neighbours Burley in Wharfedale

For those in need of transport (to get to hospital or clinic, for example). If anyone can offer help with providing transport to hospitals and clinics please let Gail know. Drivers are called upon about once every 4 months, and are reimbursed for their journeys and parking. Please call Gail if you are interested in becoming a volunteer.

Burley-in-Wharfedale residents only.

Enquiries: Gail Boole – 01943 862388

Diabetes U.K. Support Group

West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP 1st Monday of the month 7pm – 9pm (Except Bank Holidays when it’s the 2nd Monday). All welcome to hear a variety of speakers on diabetes related health matters. Enquiries: 07840686618

IBS Leeds

HEART Centre, Headingley, Friendly, informal meetings for fellow sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Monthly meetings how being held.

Please email me at matt@letscureibs.com or visit www.letscureibs.com for details

Leeds Coeliac Group

Offering support and advice to those medically diagnosed with Coeliac disease. Come along and join us at one of our social events. Details: Sandra McLean 07711 768850 or enquiries@ leedscoeliacgroup.org.uk

Leeds Fencing Club

Kirkstall Leisure Centre, Kirkstall Lane, Leeds LS5 3BE. Monday Evenings. Beginners-6.308pm (suitable for all ages 12+) Intermediates/Advanced-8 -10pm.

Wheelchair fencing available.

Leeds Fencing Club website: http:// www.leedsfencing.co.uk/ email: info@ leedsfencing.co.uk or contact club secretary Karen Garvie 0113 2742262 or Kirkstall Leisure Centre 0113 3782086, email: lsp.kirkstall.sport@leeds.gov.uk

Ilkley Badminton Club

Mondays: Gyhll Royd School Ilkley Road, Burley-in-Wharfedale LS29 7HW. Thursdays: St. Mary’s Bradford Road, Menston LS29 6AE. Not for beginners but the club are pleased to develop people who meet minimum playing standards. Friendly and competitive matches.Enquiries: Ian Campbell, Club Secretary-07721 978143

Otley & Wharfedale MacMillan Cancer Support Fundraising Group

Call for venue.

1st Thursday of each month, 2pm. Meet to plan events, new members welcome.

Enquiries: 0113 2613758

Otley Town FC – Looking for new players to join!!!

Old Showground, Pool Road, Otley Saturdays 1pm & Tuesday for training 7pm.

Enquiries: 07951 278440

YOGA CLASSES – 1st CLASS FREE!!

Tuesdays: 7pm-8.30pm, The Crystal Temple, Low Green, Rawdon, LS19 6HB & Fridays: 12.30pm-2pm, Adel Quaker Meeting House, New Adel Lane, LS16 6AZ DE-STRESS & Feel UPLIFTED with Dynamic Flowing Dru Yoga. The perfect way to a healthy body and calm mind.

To book your place or for more info call Jane 01943 465230 or jaohalloran@yahoo.co.uk

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Miscellaneous Leeds Current Affairs Discussion Group Convenor/ Tutor Professor Bill Jones

St George's Centre, Great George street, Leeds LS1 3BR Dates: Each Thursday from 2 October – 4 December 2014 (ten sessions)10.30 – 12.30 Fee £90 Keep your brain active and gain in-depth insights into current affairs at home and abroad via 10 weekly briefings and discussions. For more information and booking form contact bill.jones@sky.com or Glynis Sandwith at gmsandwith@yahoo. co.uk. (07765 641297).

Leeds Feline Friends- Spring Fair St Margaret's Church Hall, Horsforth LS18 5LQ Saturday 29th March 10am-1pm Variety of stalls including Easter Egg tombola, books & cakes. Delicious refreshments also available. Many bargains to be found.

Please take a look on www.leedsfelinefriends.org.uk 0113 2160593 or mail@leedsfelinefriends.org.uk

Leeds Feline Friends

PO Box 294, Leeds, LS16 0ES We are rehoming some of our cats and kittens, in January and February.

Can you give one of our rescue cats a safe and loving home well away from a busy road? Please take a look on www.leedsfelinefriends.org.uk 0113 2160593 mail@leedsfelinefriends.org.uk

Leeds and Moortown Furniture Store

The Store which has been running now for almost 30 years is a registered charity that collects donated furniture and, through a raft of voluntary and statutory referral agencies, passes it on to individuals and families in Leeds who are in need.

Enquiries:01132739727 info@leedsandmoortown.org.uk, www.leedsandmoortown.org.uk

Otley Word Feast 2014

An enjoyable feast of words with something for everyone and many free events.

Grand Opening Feast at Korks Wine Bar Friday 28th March, 7pm. Tickets £8 inc supper. Saturday 29th March and Sunday 30th March, highlights include creative writing workshops, Open Mic and Slam competitions, author events, speakers, walks, children and family activities.

For more information, visit www.otleywordfeast.org.uk and check www.otleycourthouse.org.uk for ticket and booking information.

OTLEY Residents-Citizens Advice Bureau (extra session) Courthouse Street, Otley, LS21 1BG Tuesday Mornings (until March 2014) 9.30am–12.30pm 'drop in' or call for appointment to discuss worries/ get advice on pensions, debt, fuel issues etc..

Enquiries: 01943 465351

WARLEY FAIRS ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES FAIRS

At Pudsey Civic Hall, Dawson’s Corner, Leeds, LS28 5TA. Our Dealers will be back Sunday 27 April, 10 – 4pm.

Adults £1.50, 0-16: Free, Disabled facilities, Café & Free Parking.

And now at VICTORIA HALL, Hard Ings Road, Keighley, BD21 3JN Sunday 18th May, 10-4pm.

Enquiries: 0113 2555211/ info@warleyfairs.co.uk

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Slim Panatella and the Mellow Virginians Hilary James and Simon Mayor are no strangers to Yorkshire – Simon hails from Sheffield – and are well known as the Mandolinquents. Their eclectic repertoire features a mix of instrumental and vocal pieces, drawing on the traditional music of Britain, Ireland, China and the Americas. They also do swing and feature original music by Simon Mayor, along with adaptations of pieces from the classical repertoire.

The core instrumental line up is two mandolins, classical guitar and mandobass – an impressively large bass mandolin. In concert in Ilkley on 8 March, as Slim Panatella and the Mellow Virginians, the bluegrass background of Richard Collins added another dimension, featuring the 5 string banjo. Humour has always been an important feature of live performances. It was in evidence here as Simon demonstrated how to blend in linguistically both in France and in Droitwich.

Hilary, Simon and Richard in Ilkley on 8 March

The group’s discography ranges from jazz to folk and classical themes and includes some brilliant recordings for children, from lullabies for babies to very engaging lyrics for the two-year-olds and

GET INVOLVED: The Chevin Cross The cross on Otley Chevin, which was installed for the first time in 1969, has become a well-known and loved Easter symbol of hope for the last 45 years.

The cross, which was replaced after 31 years for the new millennium, was the brainchild of the Otley Council of Christian Churches and is a fine example of a co-operative initiative, which has become a source of comfort and inspiration to many people.

At least 50 people are needed to pull the cross into place at Surprise View above Otley (Grid Ref. SE 203442) where it then remains for four weeks throughout the Easter celebrations. This year it is being erected on Saturday April 5th at 0930 hours.

All helpers need to be at Surprise View opposite The Royalty at around 0915.

For any further details contact John Burland on 07725434036.

up. Simon has also solo recordings and Hilary has recorded a Frenchthemed album with her sister. Check out their discs and their dates at mandolinquents.com

34 4 Garden Guru

The flower seeds you sowed last month will be making good growth, so pricking them out is essential to ensure they have space to develop into strong plants.

There is still time to sow more half hardy items, to make your garden glow with colour. We are all being encouraged to grow something yellow for the Tour De France, so how about a few French and African Spring is in the air, with crocus, daffodils and other marigolds, nasturtiums, and other yellow plants to spring blooms blooming beautifully, although I am brighten your street. still looking over my shoulder for possible snow, ice Spring is also the time for return of our old enemies, and frosts. slugs, snails, greenfly etc, so be on your guard and Starting with the lawns, it is time to aerate them – use your own favourite remedy to protect nearly using a garden fork pushed into the ground every emerging soft growth from their attacks. footstep going backwards. Give it a wiggle and move on, which will assist with the drainage and encourage The Horsforth Allotment Shed on Featherbank root growth. Apply a spring feed, with additional Lane, Horsforth is open every Friday night from moss control if this is a problem. Then after two 7pm – 8pm. Call in for quality gardening products weeks scarify (rake) the lawn to lift out the dead moss and friendly advice. For further information and old dead grass. Start cutting with your blades set please visit: www.haga.btck.co.uk high, then gradually reduce as growth increases and mow as regularly as required.

As the days start to lengthen and warm up, now is a good time to start sowing all your normal vegetables, either in modules for planting out later or direct into the soil. Early potatoes can be planted now, although if you have no spare soil, plant some in a potato bag around the side of the house – alternatively, in a florists bucket with holes drilled in.

In the warmth, sow both your indoor and outdoor tomatoes – together with cucumbers, peppers, chillies and other salad crops. These can be planted out when all danger of fost has passed.

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Rugby League for all Schools Leeds Rugby Foundation’s Rugby League Development Plan for Leeds has been assured a second year through continuing partnership and sponsorship by PIMS Ltd, a Leeds based a heating, rewiring house refurbishment specialist.

The Development Plan was launched with the aim of giving every youngster in Leeds the opportunity to play Rugby League - and the chance of attending a Leeds Rhinos or Hunslet Hawks game. To that end, the Foundation now has a staff of 13 full time Schools and Community Coaches, led by Leeds Rugby League Development Manager Leon Crick.

Colin Smith, Managing Director of PIMS, with wife Kath, is pictured here with LRF Ambassador Keith Senior. The former Rhinos, England and GB wing and centre remained at the very top of the game throughout the noughties.

Fighting on the Home Front – the Legacy of Women in World War One We have all seen Kate Adie on TV, in sober camouflage gear equally soberly reporting from some strife-torn area. Her writing style is quite different, just as direct and concise, but also dry and funny and with a wry sense of the absurd.

This account of how women responded to the challenges and upheaval of WWI is based on original and meticulous research and Adie brings vividly alive the resourceful and courageous individuals she focuses on. All classes were affected, from princesses to parlourmaids,

with even Queen Mary planting potatoes and knitting for Britain.

There are some astonishing portraits, notably of Flora Sandes, a vicar’s daughter from Poppleton. She had some St John Ambulance training and volunteered for nursing. In the

Having won every club and national honour possible, and having been elected to a World XIII for three years, Keith’s new role with LRF gives him an ideal opportunity to continue contributing to the game in general and Leeds in particular.

Balkans from 1914, she realised her experience with a shotgun might be handy and was taken on as Private Sandes, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Serbian Army.

She was awarded Serbia’s most prestigious medal for bravery before being invalided out. Back home, she briefed the War Office and took to public speaking, raising funds and spearheading donations of clothing. That women could do men’s work – and do it very well – certainly helped them eventually towards getting the vote, but Adie makes it clear that entrenched attitudes died hard and that liberation was acceptable “for the duration” but, in many cases, for no longer.

Fighting on the Home Front is published by Hodder and Stoughton at £20. A paperback version will be published in April and it is available now as an e-book.

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Ilkley celebrates International Women’s Day The Wheatley in Ben Rhydding saw some three dozen women gather on 8 March to celebrate International Women’s Day. Prime mover was Vera Woodhead, who had set herself the organisation of this event as a three-month challenge – met in style. Four speakers recounted their experiences of lifechanging moves and the huge benefits that had ensued, while a fifth also gave cogent advice on how to cope. A common theme was the decision to get off the treadmill of an apparently successful career and go it alone in business. Scary, but ultimately very rewarding. Two crucial factors emerged: first the benefits of being in charge of one’s time, secondly the massive support available from other women. Some participants on 8 March were new to the concept of the Aspiring Women’s Network – also run by Vera – which provides valuable support to women who are often working in isolation and benefit greatly from the opportunity to share ideas and encouragement. The next AWN meeting will be in early April and all are welcome. Details from Vera at v@edimo.co.uk

ASPIRE TO BE: 12 MONTHS ON Twelve months ago Covered helped new business “Aspire To Be” with their launch in Menston. How time flies! We revisit sister act Tiffany & Kimberley to find out how the first year has gone.

How do you feel about your first year?

Kim: Wow, how fast has this first year gone! It’s been amazing and it feels like we've done so much.

We've really enjoyed working together and have met some great people along the way.

How has “Aspire To Be” changed in the last 12 months?

Tiff: We are always changing, from big things like adding new products to little things like moving the furniture. Lycon Hot Wax has been an amazing new product to use, it gives a fantastic finish and is great for sensitive areas and there’s a 50% reduction in pain compared to normal strip wax. We have both attended lots of Dermalogica training courses and Kim is now one of only 600 Dermalogica experts in the country, that's a pretty amazing achievement.

Kim: And Tiff is well on her way to becoming an expert, just one last course to attend!

Vera Woodhead inspiring women

Rachel Spencer Robb of LCF Law in Ilkley was a keynote speaker. And it is never too early for her daughters Erin and Maia to be inspired ...

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Aspiretobe Beauty & Skincare Centre

“Real Treatments, Real Answers, Real Products, Real Results!”

We offer a wide range of customised treatments: • • • • Sister Act: Tiffany (R) and Kimberley (L) of Aspire to be

Are you settled in Menston and part of the community?

Kim: Menston is a lovely village, we have been made to feel very welcome and our clients are all very loyal. Last year we sponsored a scarecrow in the “Menston Primary School Scarecrow Hunt” then at Christmas we attended the “Menston Mum’s Mooch” shopping event which raised funds for Menston pre-school.

What can we expect from “Aspire To Be” in the next year?

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Tiff: Oh and we have a Jane Iredale make-up event booked on the 17th April. Last year’s was very popular and we actually ran out of spaces. This year’s event is a make-up master class with a professional make-up artist, everyone will get chance to use all the products and learn how to apply them. These nights are great fun! We still have tickets and slots available so if anyone is interested please call the salon.

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Leeds Venues

The HiFi Club There can be little doubt that the comedy scene is alive, and growing, in Leeds. Big TV names, such as Miranda Hart, are playing venues like the Leeds Arena and City Varieties whilst the alternative scene is bubbling along nicely too. We visited one of Leeds’ coolest venues, The HiFi Club, to see what was on offer there.

The HiFi Club is a nightclub and live venue and three times winner of both the “Best Nightclub” and “Best Live Music Venue” at the annual Leeds Bar & Club Awards.

They host the popular Comedy Sessions every Saturday night and this venue is just perfect for comedy. A friendly and welcoming bar in a basement below Central Road, the seating is set out cabaret style, with candlelit tables and intimate surroundings, and it’s warm and buzzing atmosphere.

Featuring three stand-up comedians each week, past guests include Alan Carr, Russell Howard and Jason Manford, which demonstrates how well established HiFi have become on the UK comedy circuit.

Tonight though, we are here to see Zoe Lyons and Justin Moorhouse.

Justin is a radio DJ and comedian who appeared on Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights and won a round on Celebrity Mastermind, choosing Les Dawson as his chosen subject, whilst Zoe is a regular face from many TV shows, including Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre’s Roadshow, The Paul O’Grady Show and The Wright Stuff. After the compere, Danny McLoughlin, breezes through the usual introductions and audience familiarity, Zoe is on first and is soon racing through everyday life and it’s conundrums with her clever and razor sharp observations. Not being afraid

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“Stand-up comedy can be very subjective and not to everyone’s taste. What’s great to see at HiFi is such a varied audience… it’s largely a younger crowd, but there are also families and groups of friends of all ages” to look a little ridiculous at times is what makes this comedian so achingly funny. It’s a fairly physical performance and the crowd love her. Justin headlines next with his amiable blend of Northern self-depreciation and by the time he’s got around to tales of entertaining his annoying kids with rainy trips to an owl sanctuary, he has everyone completely hooked.

Stand-up comedy can be very subjective and not to everyone’s taste. What’s great to see at HiFi is such a varied audience… it’s largely a younger crowd, but there are also families and groups of friends of all ages. Guests

are also invited to stay after the comedy for the Bugalu club night which follows. It’s free of charge, and plays a delectable selection of cross genre hopping beats into the early hours of Sunday morning. HiFi’s a venue renowned for quality music and good atmosphere and the range of DJ led and live music nights are based around a variety of musical genres including Soul, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae and Disco. It’s the sort of place you’d find Jay-Z sandwiched between Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye and not bat an eyelid. Live music on a Sunday night includes the likes of Yorkshire based four-piece band, Barcode Zebra, playing a

catchy blend of soul-tinged pop funk and Friday nights see Funk Soul Nation, playing the best in contemporary beats and boogie. www.thehificlub.co.uk

40 News from the Suburbs

Exploring Leeds City Centre Walk How many Owls are there in Leeds? Well, I’ve not been out at night to count them flying around but I do know that there are a lot of stone, metal or glass ones to be found on buildings around the city. As part of the city centre walk in this month’s magazine, we will try and find some of these as well as looking at the history of parts of the centre of Leeds, north of The Headrow.

The City of Leeds has had a coat of arms since 1662 when the office of mayor was created and initially had only a shield on it, but when the borough was reformed in 1835 as part of the Municipal Corporations Act, Silver Owls were added at either side of the shield and also on the top of it. The owls have therefore been part of Leeds’s heritage for the last 180 years.

Probably the most well known of all the Leeds owls are those on the Civic Hall and that is where our walk commences. The Civic Hall is just over 80 years old, being opened by King George V in August 1933 and has two owls on its facade, plus a further two in Millennium Square at the front of the building and two by the Portland Crescent entrance to the building. There are also owls to be found inside the building as well.

To the East of Millennium Square is the Leeds Museum, formerly the Civic Theatre and originally the Mechanics Institute. Built in 1865 by Cuthbert Brodrick, architect of many buildings in Leeds, Owls can be spotted on the facade above the words, “The Leeds Institute”.

Continue down Cookridge Street until you reach St Anne’s RC Cathedral. Now that the Cathedral has been cleaned in recent years, the stone Owls by the gutters can easily be seen. Cross over from the Cathedral and walk down until you reach

The Headrow and turn right to the War Memorial. On the memorial, Owls can be found on top of the dais below the obelisk. On the far side of the memorial is the Leeds Library. The library was built between 1878 and 1884 and was originally the Leeds Municipal Offices designed by George Corson. The Leeds crest, with its Owls can be seen on the metalworking in the semi-circular window and also inside above the pillar between the two doors. There is also another Owl on the door leading into the library area itself up

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at the top right. Whilst inside the library ask to see the Leeds Tapestry which contains a large number of Owls sewn into it.

The next set of Owls can be found on top of the railings by the side of the building at the bottom of Calverley Street. There are a dozen of these standing to attention. They nearly suffered the ignominious humility of being melted down during the war to be made into rifles but fortunately for us were spared. Also on Calverley Street is the former Leeds School Board building which is now used by Leeds Metropolitan University. Built again by George Corson between 1878 and 1881 the Owls on this building are high up in the air, over the windows in the round stone relief above the door. Our final Owls on this walk are to be found on the Town Hall, another of Cuthbert Brodrick’s masterpieces of design. Opened by Queen Victoria in 1858 the Owls can be seen on the stone crest, near to the flagpole.

Next month, we venture down the other side of The Headrow to City Square, Boar Lane and to the Corn Exchange and Leeds Minster to find another dozen or so places where the Leeds Owls can be spotted.

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Jessie Pavelka at Crossgates Shopping Centre Texan Jessie Pavelka became hot property on the fitness, lifestyle and wellbeing scene in 2008. Then just turned 26, he had been featured in rapid succession on the front covers of three health magazines. His resumé now includes acting, TV hosting and motivational coaching.

He is best known to a devoted UK television audience for working long-term with the morbidly obese – people so overweight that their lives are in peril. More recently, in January, he co-hosted parts of ITV’s Daybreak.

Meanwhile, in downtown Cross Gates LS15, the management team at the (almost) eponymous Crossgates Shopping Centre was looking at ways to extend their interaction with the general public.

They already had a busy calendar of events during normal hours of shopping, but nothing outside.

Their inaugural event was planned Sunday 23 February – an audience with Jessie Pavelka, with the mall becoming home to a number of health, fitness and fashion related stands. But it didn’t go entirely according to plan.

Some of the invited guests with their goody bags

With the centre due to reopen for the event at five, the fire alarm just wouldn’t keep quiet. With the fault seemingly irreparable, the stallholders and public were redirected to a nearby hotel. Then the fault was fixed, so maybe twenty stalls and the 200 guests were recalled from the hotel.

The event got underway a little after six, with the compère and management team being quite masterful in cramming three hours of presentation, questions and photo calls into two – although some of the stallholders wouldn’t have got quite as much exposure as they otherwise might. Jessie Pavelka was indeed a true star on the evening – totally unshaken by

Fan Kerry Sanderson, fitness guru Jessie Pavelka, compère Naomi Kent from Radio Aire and Jill Tipping, Jessie’s UK manager

the delay, double relocation and condensed timetable. The evening raised £522 for Cash for Kids.

Crossgates Shopping Centre Marketing Manager Sophie Stephenson told Covered “What an amazing first out-of-hours community event! Disaster was averted and Jessie just couldn’t have done more. Our next community event is over Easter on 10 and 11 April. We haven’t finalised the details, but we’re hoping to bring elements of the countryside into the centre. As for our next event out of hours? We’re still recovering from the last one - but intend to run two a year.” Max Spielman

The man they were all there to see

It wasn’t only the audience that was captivated by Jessie Pavelka – Naomi Kent taking questions from the floor

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Young Artists Recitals at Lotherton Hall Lotherton Hall is an Edwardian gentleman’s country residence, formerly the home of the Gascoigne family. In 1968, Sir Alvary and Lady Gascoigne gave it to Leeds City Council. It is now a museum, but still has the delightful feel of a family home. There are impressive collections of furniture, sculpture, fine and decorative arts, ceramics, costume and jewellery.

There is also an extensive park, an Edwardian garden and a bird garden. Every year, there are classical chamber music recitals held in the Drawing Room, using the historic grand pianos, one of which used to belong to the Salt family of Saltaire. In 2014, they will feature young performers from Leeds College of Music. Tea is

The Salt grand piano in the drawing room at Lotherton Hall

served in the Servants’ Hall gallery after the concert and is included in the ticket price.

This year’s dates for Sunday recitals are 6 April and 4 May at 2.00 pm.

There is also an evening jazz concert on Saturday 19 July with wine

and canapés in the interval. For programme details, visit the website www.leeds.gov.uk/lothertonhall.

These concerts are extremely popular, so advance booking is strongly recommended. For tickets, contact Wendy Shuttleworth at Lotherton. wendy.shuttleworth@leeds.gov.uk

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44 News from the Suburbs

TdF update – Ilkley and le Tour. Could you be a guide??

February’s meeting of the steering group in Ilkley got to grips with some serious issues.

There was much debate around the question of legacy; obviously the passage of the Tour will be a major event, but what will it leave as a lasting reminder?

A major consideration is the encouragement of cycling as a day-to-day activity to get from A to B, not just as a sport. So safe and traffic-free routes are to be explored, notably between Ilkley and Addingham. Cost is always a consideration, so hiring/sharing/ recycling of bikes are avenues to be explored. Family-friendly cycling and bike maintenance are also on-going projects.

Ilkley Soroptimists are taking responsibility for guiding visitors

Otley Lions Writing Competition The Otley Lions have decided to launch a story writing competition for those attending local schools.

The competition will encourage participants to stretch their imagination as they try their hand at creative writing.

There will be four levels of competition related to educational Key Stages.

Competitions will be held twice a year closing in January and June. The first competition will

during the Tour weekend and they need volunteers. Guides need to be 18 or over, have a good knowledge of Ilkley and be available for at least a couple of hours – the time commitment is variable. A smattering of French, German, Spanish or Dutch would not go amiss! Some guides will operate from two or three fixed stands at key points in the town centre while others will circulate

in the crowds. Clad in hi-vis jackets, their brief will be to point people in the right direction and provide a warm welcome. A short information session prior to the arrival of the Tour will aim to answer any questions.

If you are interested, please send an email headed Ilkley Guides to siilkley@gmail.com or text 07779 026 236

therefore have a closing date of June 1 2014.

The prize for all categories will be a £20 book token. Winning stories will also be displayed in the Lions’ bookshop and posted on the website.

The stories shall be judged by a group of Otley Lions applying the criteria of originality, plot, characters, narrative, dialogue, style and linguistic accuracy.

The theme for the stories will change each time and there will always be two suggested themes offered for each age group.

The Lions hope the competition will arouse interest and stimulate some enjoyable and intriguing works of fiction. And, who knows, they may uncover Otley’s

answer to J.K. Rowling!

For more information and entry requirements call into the Lions’ bookshop in Mercury Row or email: pg@mcatkins.co.uk

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GUISELEY LIONS CLUB CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR FOURTH YEAR Guiseley and District Lions Club are to hold their fourth Charity Beer Festival at Coopers Bar Guiseley on Friday 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th May 2014.

The theme is ‘Le Tour De Beer’.

Twenty four different real ales from The Yorkshire Grand Depart region will be available along with a choice of wine and cider. Local businesses are sponsoring each of the beers and all proceeds will go to local worthy causes.

Last year the event was officially opened by Leeds United player Aidy White and attended by our local MP Stuart Andrew.

Full houses on both evenings guaranteed a warm welcoming atmosphere as friends old and new enjoyed the delights of the finest ales from the borders along with ciders and wine. The event raised £4500. The main charity supported was The Callum Hall Trust. Callum, a former pupil of St Mary’s School Guiseley, contracted a rare spinal infection leaving him paralysed. Callum has since been able to purchase an “Easy Stand” –a piece of equipment which allows him to

stand on his feet. It is hoped that the equipment will help establish new connections between his brain and his legs.

Amongst others, Wharfedale Scout sailing centre also benefitted with the purchase of twenty junior Crewsaver buoyancy aids.

The main charity to be supported this year is Wesley’s Wish Trust.

Wes Knight of Guiseley was born at just 31 weeks. After a month in intensive care a scan revealed that part of his brain had been damaged. As a result Wes suffers from cerebral palsy and is unlikely to walk without specialist surgery.

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Entry is by ticket only at £5 a person which includes a souvenir glass, 2 half pints and a programme detailing the beers sponsors.

Additional beers will be priced at £2.50 a pint.

Sessions are from 7-11pm each evening, 1-4pm on Saturday and 12 -3pm Sunday. Tickets can be purchased from Coopers or www. wegot tickets.com. For more information visit www.guiseley. co.uk/lions.

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46 News from the Suburbs

Clevedon Club Clevedon Village in Ben Rhydding is not only for residents, as visitors to its restaurant and bistro will be aware. Non-residents are also welcome at the Clevedon Club, which offers fitness and social resources to all. There is a 10-metre swimming pool and a well-equipped small gym. Club members are entitled to attend two classes a week, with Pilates, aqua-aerobics, simple circuits and Zumba currently on offer. There is a comfortable and well-stocked library and a hobbies room with internet access. An afternoon book group meets monthly. Club members benefit from a 10% reduction and regular special offers in the restaurant.

A new initiative is a forum where members can raise questions and discuss issues with Club managers Donna Peachey and Angela Kabasari. The first meeting on 7 March was well attended and demonstrated just how popular the Club is.

Issues raised included the vexed question of parking; it was clear that in the long term adequate visitor parking will be available on site and, in the interim,

Assistant manager Donna Peachey in the Club’s library

members can park in the Grange area. Another area of concern was the size of the gym – fine for individual exercise, not so good for classes. Future development at the Grange may address this.

It was decided that the forum

should be quarterly, so the next meeting will be in early June.

For membership information, email clevedonclub@ audleyretirement.co.uk or telephone 01943 811600

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Choirs in Adel and Yeadon Recruiting Now The Adel based Amici Singers and Yeadon and District Male Voice Choir are both on the lookout for new singers in time for their 2014 concert seasons. By definition, the Yeadon choir is looking for male voices. Whereas the Amici Singers are looking for both male and female, there is a greater need for male voices to replace the number of men that found themselves otherwise diverted or occupied over the winter.

The Amici Singers are drawn from across north Leeds. They meet and rehearse every Thursday evening at Adel Methodist Church.

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Yeadon and District Male Voice Choir also rehearses each Thursday evening.at Yeadon Methodist Church - next to the Town Hall. Not only has the choir recently celebrated its centenary, President Alec Beaumont has recently celebrated his own halfcentury of dedication to the choir.

Like the Amici Singers, they too perform a series of charitable

101 years not out. Yeadon and District Male Voice Choir is 101 years not out. President Alec Beaumont (hooped jumper) has been with them for fifty of them.

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48 Blast from the Past

The Good Old Days Most people’s perception of the workhouse is guided by two prefixes commonly in use – Victorian or Dickensian.

Oliver Twist and all that.

But workhouses and state provision for the poor both predate Oliver Twist (1830s) by over two centuries.

Poverty in England had become a public issue during the sixteenth century. The feudal system, effectively slavery, had eroded. Although communities were no longer tied, there was only the church to go to when times got hard.

In the 1530s Henry VIII closed over 800 monasteries and smaller religious communities.

A growing number of the poor and infirm had fewer places to go. In 1572 Parliament compelled parishes to levy taxes to relieve local poverty.

All that remains of Calverley Workhouse on Blackett Street – a dedication or foundation stone acknowledging Sir Walter Blackett (né Calverley) as the benefactor in 1756.

In 1576 towns were compelled to provide work for their unemployed. These and other measures were consolidated in 1601 – the very beginning of the welfare state.

The term workhouse is a loose one. The earliest would have been in places where it was thought more economical and effective to provide for the poor and unemployed under one roof, not necessarily purpose built. They were formalised only in 1723, when Parliament sanctioned them as a last resort and deterrent to unemployment.

Calverley Workhouse is a good example. No longer standing, it was built in 1756 and donated to the parish by Sir Walter

Blackett. Sir Walter had been born Walter Calverley in 1707 and inherited his father’s baronetcy in 1749. Having quickly sold his father’s estate in Calverley (and Esholt) on inheritance, perhaps Sir Walter thought he should put a little back. It was designed to accommodate as many as forty.

In 1728 Walter had also inherited an uncle’s vast wealth on condition that he change his name and marry a cousin. Though Otley born, and with his new wife and wealth in Newcastle (where he was Mayor five times), he nonetheless remained attached to Calverley - his father’s place of birth and family title. He was buried there in 1777.

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