Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Just one month to go before Leeds becomes a real life Monopoly game, so it’s time to unleash your inner Sir Alan Sugar, and begin to formulate a business plan. The fun, games and wheeler-dealering begins on 27th July when the city centre will change into the playing venue with 22 key locations. There will…
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From Monday, 10th June until Sunday, 14th July, Bundobust are having a blast. Although ostensibly to mark the UEFA Euros 2024 it is a game of two halves as it is also their tenth anniversary. Where did that go? The theme of the menu is footy food so expect plenty of Tony Currie in different…
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Summer’s here – honest – so it is time for us to turn our attention to getting out and loading up (responsibly of course) on sunshine and al fresco dining, along with a bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure. Add to this the chance to check out one of the grooviest new areas…
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Don’t panic, this headline doesn’t mean that Elon Musk has put in a bid to purchase the whole of the city we love, it is reference to the board game of that name. Although invented by Charles Darrow in 1933 in the USA, the British version was manufactured later that decade in Leeds by John…
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If things are getting a bit hectic and fraught over the Easter holidays, why not treat yourself to some space. You can even include the family and friends as well, as the Leodis Space Agency has taken over the city centre until 14th April. Everything is free but, as some features are only on at…
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As someone who takes more than a passing interest in interior design, I was looking forward to seeing this exhibition of the books bequeathed to Leeds University by John Bedford, an antiques dealer who made his name in London, where he began his career in the 1960s by opening a stall in a Kensington Antiques…
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The Queens Hotel in City Square has occupied part of City Station since 1937, replacing one built by the Midland Railway in 1863. In those days most large termini had hotels constructed by the railway companies which served the respective town or city. The decision to erect this beautiful art deco structure was made when…
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Leeds International Festival of Ideas 2023 was brought to a close by this ‘fireside chat’ between two people for whom I have the greatest admiration. I have had the pleasure of interviewing Lisa Holdsworth, the Leeds writer, on behalf of a publication I once worked for. She was very gracious in sparing me her time…
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As I am always on the lookout as to where I can stash the family fortune I thought that I would pop along to find out more about cryptocurrency. There can be few people more qualified to discuss this topic than Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of The Bank of England for Financial Stability, and…
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I was looking forward to this event as it echoes something which we did in college in the mid-sixties when I was doing my A Level Law. We looked at the way in which we lived our lives and were then told how many laws we had broken, accidentally, obviously. I thought it interesting to…
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