Leeds and Beyond – Farmers Market 6 : Kirkstall
Kirkstall Abbey must be one of the most spectacular settings for any market in the country. It is an amazing place, which I already knew, but what I didn’t know was that the stalls would be in the Abbey itself. The website made it look as though it was in the car park near the […]
Let’s Do Lunch at Distrikt
Leeds in the 1960s had a thriving coffee bar scene. This was long before anyone had ever heard of the leviathans of today, although the chap who owned the Riviera Coffee Bar was called Costa. The salubriousness of the establishments varied from the basic, exemplified by the Ritz on Vicar Lane and the aforementioned Riviera […]
Leeds and Beyond – Farmers Market 5. Oakwood
Another Saturday – another farmers’ market, this time in Oakwood. Even though I lived in Oakwood during my late teens and early twenties I didn’t know that Oakwood Clock was not built for this site but was originally erected in Leeds Market where it stayed until 1912, at which point the popularity of the market […]
Let’s Do Lunch at Mill Kitchen, Farsley
Farsley in the late 1970s when I lived there was hardly the most alluring suburb of the City, possibly because I lived there. It had all of the disadvantages of a village, i.e. shops which closed at lunchtime on Saturday and no nightlife except for a couple of pubs, a decent chippy and a Chinese […]
Leeds and Beyond – Farmers Market 4. Headingley
I had high hopes of the Farmers’ Market in Headingley as this is one of the more quirky suburbs of the City. It is the traditional home of the student population at one end and a more upmarket area at the other. This means an assortment of shops, bars and restaurants to cater for all […]
