Hollybush Conservation Centre is delighted to be a venue for Kirkstall Arts Trail 2024. Taking place across Saturday and Sunday, we'll be hosting 14 artists, as one of 38 different venues in Kirkstall. The cafe and gardens at Hollybush will be open for the whole weekend.
Join us for a guided railway history walking tour around the local area of Wellington Place.
Our Connecting Clifford celebrations offer a unique opportunity to visit a trio of churches. You can also enjoy a walk around the village which must be booked (see separate entry).
A circular walk to look at the remaining historic railway infrastructure on the west side of Leeds.
Approximately 2½ miles of paved walking. Suitable footwear and weather-wear is needed. The route takes in the former Leeds Central Station Viaduct, Leeds and Thirsk Railway locomotive sheds (a roundhouse, and a half-roundhouse) The walk then joins the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and follows the towpath under the remains of the approach bridges to Central Station. Proceeding next to the Queens Hotel via the dark arches the walk finishes at Leeds Station North Concourse.
Join local historians Wendy Grisedale and Val Crompton for a guided walk around the Adel Conservation Area
Leeds Cathedral (The Cathedral Church of St Anne) is a Grade II* Listed Building, completed in 1904.
It is one of 22 Catholic cathedrals in England & Wales, and widely recognised as an outstanding example, of Art & Crafts architecture and design.
York has been a very significant place for many centuries, while Leeds only really surged up the urban hierarchy from 250 years ago.
Why this great contrast? And yet what do the two places have in common? Each can be understood more fully with reference to the other.
A guided walk through this historic village, once a township in the Manor of Harewood.
The village prospered and grew from the Victorian era but retains many earlier stone buildings amongst the more recent residential developments.
Historian Robert Dyson of the Civic Trust will lead you on a walking tour of Mabgate where you will discover its rich cultural heritage, from its agrarian roots through the industrial revolution and into the modern era.
Join photographer Peter Mitchell, together with Jane Bhoyroo, Principal Keeper at Leeds Art Gallery, for a lunchtime tour of Mitchell’s latest exhibition Nothing Lasts Forever.
Places limited, please email art.gallery@leeds.gov.uk to secure your place.
Image credit: Michael Pollard
1pm - 2pm
7 September 2024
26 September 2024