WORTH VALLEY MAG Community News And Local Business Directory October 2016
Delivered FREE to over 7,000 households in Oakworth, Oldfield, Stanbury, Haworth, Lees, Cross Roads, Hainworth, Oxenhope and Leeming. www.worthvalleymag.co.uk WORTH & AIRE VALLEY MAGS choose how you view the magazine and Community News And Local Business Directories engage with more content. Come 2017, interactive and social media will play a bigger part in our activities and 10years and what we have to offer. feeling#grateful Ultimately, our aims remain unchanged. It is hard to believe it was 2006 when We want to support the local business Karen Davidson (now Lorrimer) and I set economy, encourage growth, collaborative up the community magazine business, work, and the ongoing development of Worth Valley Publishing Ltd. And yet, it our vibrant communities in the Worth & feels like a lifetime ago! Aire Valleys. We want to celebrate and TUESDAY WEDNESDAY cont. SATURDAY Karen left to concentrate on her growing highlight what works well in our villages 5:30pm or 7:30pm 7:30pm 9am Church of Nazarene, family and to build a business incorporating and towns and get stuck in to make Long Lee Methodist Chapel Riddlesden Reformed Church Oakworth Rd, Keighley music and movement for children. (Some improvements with our partners and Call/text Carla on 07881 953118 Call/text Barbara on Call/text Lynn on 07800 865331 of you are familiar with the popular friends in the community. We also want 07582 468366 Consultant opportunities for new group Weenyboppers classes.) to enhance the visitor’s experience in the openings are available for past and present WEDNESDAY members in the area, please call Carla on area and support tourism through our 5pm or 7pm THURSDAY 01274 401339 for more details. I went on to launch the Aire Valley activities. Oakworth Holden Hall 5pm or 7pm, Haworth Baptist Centre Magazines in September 2009 and Call Andrea on 01535 642319 Call Andrea on 01535 642319 October 2012 respectively covering If you feel you have something to 20,000 households and establishing the contribute, please get in touch to help us largest community magazine network of move on together. its kind in the area. I was joined by a very We are always interested to hear from you competent growing team, including Joanne about what you want to see and read and Ingham, Diane Watts, Clive Sherratt, and we welcome submissions, suggestions, Janet Arkwright at that time, as well as and ideas. friends and family who helped man the phones and map the streets at various We’d also like to say a big thank you to the times. businesses and community organisations that we have had the privilege of The format and philosophy have been the working with over the past ten years; same from the start: the sole traders, the charities, the social Keep it simple. Be positive. Showcase the enterprises, the local councillors, MPs, community and its many attributes. Lord Mayors, corporate CEO’s, teachers, Utilise local talent; writers, poets, school children; and mostly, thank you photographers. Put money in the pockets dear reader, you have contributed to our of local people by paying them to distribute success by valuing the magazine. the magazines. We are grateful.
Going forward, and given the massive Let’s make the next 10 years changes in the publishing world, even better. including the impact of digital and online communications, Worth Valley Publishing With kind regards, is undergoing big changes that we hope will enhance your experience and move the magazines into a twenty first century multi media platform where you will be able to Liz Barker To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 2 3 KEIGHLEY TOWN COUNCIL PROUDLY PRESENTS...
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To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 4 5 WWW.KEIGHLEY.GOV.UK October at THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER Behind the Scenes at the Museum Late night Thursday: open until 8pm of the day answering emails, research Brontë Parsonage MONDAY 24 – FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER enquiries, booking film crews, organising Museum Family events for October half-term guided tours, writing text for exhibitions Drop-in art workshops and hands-on history sessions. and thinking about what the public might Visit www.bronte.org.uk for details. like to see on display in 2017. I start the FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER, 7.30pm day doing routine jobs like winding the Museums at Night: grandfather clock and airing out the vault. a Parsonage Unwrapped special event Every now and then something comes Charlotte Brontë, the artist up for sale (usually at auction) that we SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER, 6.30pm desperately want for the collection so I’m Spooky storytelling at the Parsonage also involved in trying to get potential new This event is free of charge to visitors providing proof of acquisitions, which is very exciting but can residence in postcode areas BD20, BD21 and BD22. be very disappointing. The library is open Booking and full information at 10am-4.30pm Monday – Friday, so on a www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on daily basis I take bookings and get objects of the collection out that will be useful to Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD22 8DR In the next in our series of interviews with their specific area of research. 01535 642323 www.bronte.org.uk members of the Brontë Parsonage Museum Open Nov-Mar 10am-5pm daily, Apr-Oct 10am-5.30pm. Last tickets sold What is your favourite item in the Museum’s collection? 30 minutes before closing. Reg Charity: 529952 Reg Company: 73855 team, we meet Curator Sarah Laycock. Being the Curator, I have unlimited access, Tell us a little about yourself: so I know about things that are never October By Robert Frost displayed and spend their lives tucked away I have lived in Haworth most of my life and I O hushed October morning mild, in a dark storeroom like Charlotte’s corset. come from a very small family. I’ve worked Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Without a doubt, my favourite object is in libraries since I was sixteen and at the Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Emily Bronte’s artbox which we bought Museum for nine years. I spend a lot of Should waste them all. at auction in 2010 but I absolutely love my spare time running, but I also like to The crows above the forest call; Branwell’s very macabre sketch called ‘the relax with a bottle of Prosecco and watch Tomorrow they may form and go. Parody’-a self-portrait with a gruesome a good box-set with a take-away from the O hushed October morning mild, skeleton (representing death) towering wonderful Raj Mahal on Mill Hey. I’ve been Begin the hours of this day slow. over him in bed demanding a fight. That playing the classical guitar for 24 years Make the day seem to us less brief. will definitely be on display next year for and still have lessons. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Branwell’s bicentenary. Tell us about a typical day: Beguile us in the way you know. And your favourite Brontë novel or quote? Release one leaf at break of day; Everyone must say it but honestly, there At noon release another leaf; When Jane Eyre says “I must keep in good is no typical day here. I’ve just got back One from our trees, one far away. health and not die.” from setting up an exhibition in New York Retard the sun with gentle mist; at the Morgan Library and Museum, and Anything else you’d like to tell us? Enchant the land with amethyst. I’ve been heavily involved with Charlotte’s Slow, slow! bicentenary, going to and from London When I first started working here, I got For the grapes’ sake, if they were all, throughout 2016 due to loans out to locked inside the building at the end of the Whose leaves already are burnt with frost, other institutions, acting as courier and day when everyone went home and I set all Whose clustered fruit must else be lost— setting up the displays. I spend the bulk the alarms off. For the grapes’ sake along the wall. ctober photo by John Sargent To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 6 7
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To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 10 11 Juicing is a great way to rejuvenate your health and awaken your senses. Over the next months we will be working with Haworth Wholefoods to bring you a juice recipe and share ideas about how to make the most of your fruits and vegetables with your juicer. Haworth Wholefoods recently launched an organic juicing box service with free delivery offered to homes in the Worth Valley.
Tumeric Awakening Ingredients Apples - 2 medium (3” dia) 364g Carrots - 3 medium 183g Organic Juicing box Celery - 3 stalk, (11”-12” long) 192g Ginger Root - 1 thumb (1” dia) 24g 1 medium Lemon (peeled) 80g Pears - 2 medium 356g (Or 1/2 ripe mango) Turmeric Root - 3 thumb size (1” dia) 144g
Directions Follow the instructions of your juicer. All ingredients will yield around 32oz or 4 servings. Shake or stir and serve immediately to benefit from all the nutrients. Haworth Wholefoods 123 Main St. Haworth BD22 8DP Andy Beattie 01535 649217 If you have a blender and you would prefer more pulp and fibre, you PAINTER & DECORATOR can peel and then blend the ingredients instead of juicing. But the Introducing our Quality Interior & Exterior work result will be much thicker and you may need a spoon to eat it! organic juicing boxes Competitive Rates 2kg Apples, 2kg Oranges, We do a combination of the two. In this case juice the carrots, celery, 1kg Carrots,1kg Beetroot OR Prompt & Efficient Service a bunch of kale, 1 x bunch of apples, and ginger root, and then blend the remainder of the Organic boxes 01535 681292 from £20 celery OR a cucumber ingredients. FREE DELIVERY 100g of ginger OR turmeric m: 07817 132784 Experiment and see what works best for you. Enjoy! WITHIN WORTH VALLEY 2 lemons To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 12 13 What size are the logs? uying firewood is good B On average they are cut for woodlands! Well to approximately 25 cm. managed woodlands need How will it be delivered? to be thinned to allow The large dumpy bags light in and encourage are easier for us to move new growth – buying around and we deliver firewood helps support these in the bag, watch management which is our delivery video on our good for habitat quality, website. biodiversity and the How long after ordering will my logs be landscape. Buying firewood supports delivered? local jobs and communities in the North We will always deliver your logs as soon of England – rather than economies of oil as possible after you order them. The producing countries. Providing we replant majority of deliveries happen within 3 days trees we’ve cut down, which in the UK we but during busy periods it can take us up certainly do, burning wood is sustainable. to a week to deliver to you – we will always Heating with wood is cost effective – giving ring you to let you know when we will be Tel: 01756 748342 you a warm glow, inside and out! coming. 07977 011215 or 07801 595333 Anchor Logs has been supplying the Does the price include delivery? best quality dry seasoned and kiln dried Yes, the price you see is a delivered price. hardwood logs since 2009. Their logs are Do you deliver Saturdays? all hardwoods including Beech, Ash, Oak Yes, free delivery is given within a 20 miles and Silver birch. They are kiln dried to a radius of Skipton. moisture content of around 15% to 20% Do you deliver to where I live? and air dried to 20% to 25%. We cover the Worth Valley & much of “We will never sell you a wet the Aire Valley. If you pop your postcode in ESTABLISHED SINCE 1940 STILL FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED. log or any logs that fall below at the checkout page, it will tell you if we TRAVEL SAFELY IN COMFORT AND STYLE deliver to your area. (www.anchorlogs.co.uk) WITH OUR MODERN FLEET OF COACHES. our strict quality standards.” Anchor Logs owner Paul Barker Do I have to be home when the delivery is made? Here Anchor Logs answers some of the most Not necessarily, leave instructions when 12 up to 60 seat coaches available for private hire, frequently asked questions about its services: you order and we will do our best to for fill corporate & group travel. Ideal for weddings, your request. Airport, School Groups, Special Occasions. Why burn hardwood? Local en-route pickups within 20 miles of Addingham Dry seasoned hardwood has many great Anchor Logs 2016 Tours properties: It burns longer than softwood Anchor Croft Farm, Gargrave, Skipton. October/November December It doesn’t spit so its ideal for open fires BD23 3NB 01756 748342 Scottish Autumn Tints Christmas Welsh Winter Warmer in Scotland Also Thursford Christmas Variety Show 2017 Tours Orkneys, Isle of Man, Mystery Weekends
To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 14 15 The Worth Valley received the I organise and run the annual Bradford brilliant news early in September that schools flower and vegetable show but this Haworth Primary school had won the had to be cancelled this year as only two schools entered! Yorkshire in Bloom Young Peoples The pressure put on primary schools with Award, gaining Gold status. league tables and both key stage one and This is a great achievement for everyone two SAT’s is unbelievable but I believe we at the really do need to find the time to get the school and children outside exercising. shows their commitment Sport is absolutely brilliant but gardening to getting offers a totally different alternative and is all pupils out also very therapeutic. This makes it ideal gardening for children with learning difficulties or .30pm as part of special needs. the schools The Government talk about giving money curriculum from the sugar tax to sports in schools, and using the but what about putting some of that into produce grown as part of school meals. helping schools to set up their very own My views on the importance of this work growing projects? Parents and carers, throughout the last twelve years that I please let the schools know if you want to have been teaching gardening in Bradford see more gardening in the timetable. schools has not changed. Come on, let’s get growing Bradford! I really do believe that this work plays such an important part in tackling childhood obesity and in encouraging children to eat healthily. If the children have grown the fruit and vegetables you don’t have a problem getting them to eat it and they are interested in discovering how good it tastes. The number of Bradford schools making a commitment to gardening seems to have dwindled in the past couple of years after the initial big push by the Food for life partnership. To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 16 17 (pull out and keep)
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To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 22 23 Keeping the Wheels Turning but the main effort was expended by our team of volunteers. Many of those involved take a week off work and spend their ‘holiday’ toiling away to get the tasks complete in time for the passing of the first train on Saturday morning, which they achieved this year (as they always do!) so the 9.08 heritage diesel train ran across the It’s often difficult to convey just how replaced track on Saturday morning as much effort goes on behind the scenes planned. It’s a great demonstration of to keep the wheels turning, but our the teamwork, engineering excellence, work at Oakworth level crossing during ingenuity and project management that our ‘civil week’ provides a great underpins so much of what we do week in, demonstration. week out, but which so rarely gets shown At the end of the summer seven-day-per- so obviously. week running in early September, we Whilst all that was going on, others were completely close the railway for a few days preparing for a range of events coming up to allow our civil maintenance volunteers in the next few weeks. We have the Beer T: 0800 978 8584 (free phone) time to undertake the infrastructure jobs & Music Festival 20-23 October, during M: 07428633352 that can’t be done when trains are running which you can sample from a range of E: [email protected] the length of the line. This year’s ‘civil week’ over 100 beers and ciders, accompanied activity was focused at Oakworth, where by a variety of music to suit all tastes. Find us on Facebook the team dealt The Autumn Steam Spectacular 7-9 with a collapsed October sees a visiting locomotive joining PROFESSIONAL culvert under the home fleet hauling trains working an EXTERIOR the line, but intensive timetable that includes Express RESTORATION - Driveways - PVC Windows more obviously trains running and demonstration freight SPECIALISTS - Garages & Greenhouses - Gutter Cleaning replaced the trains. A little further away, Santa and - Patios - Graffiti Removal track and - Decking - Stain Removal his Pixies will be joining us on the Santa - Moss & Algae Removal - Walls timbers of the Specials that start running on 26 CONTACT US TODAY. - Conservatories - Fences level crossing. November. Tickets for the Santa Specials The work has required the road to be are selling fast, so please book soon to closed to traffic for a fortnight, which was avoid disappointment. Details of how to Commercial and residential properties, no job too big or small! not a decision we took lightly, but the work purchase tickets, and of all our events, are at the level crossing was necessary and on the website. couldn’t be completed without closing Please don’t forget that as well as the the road. During the work we’ve made events, we run trains every weekend extensive use of our steam-powered crane, and throughout half-term (24-28 which was a fascinating spectacle in itself, October), with times and fares on as well as some more modern machinery, www.kwvr.co.uk To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 24 25 Sudoku Sponsored by D&R CONSTRUCTION PHONE OR FAX: 01535 647166 MOBILE: 07770 890 652
Wherein the Worth Valley? COMPETITION Can you identify the building or landmark indicated by the red cross in this photograph? X This months prize is generously donated by Keighley & Worth Valley Railway: Day Rover Pass Email your answer to: Last month’s winner was: Ken Latta from Cross Roads. The correct answer was The Old School [email protected] Rooms, Haworth. The winner will be selected from all correct answers photo by John Sargent received by October18th 2016.
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To advertise call us on 01535 642227 Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 26 27 until a detective from Scotland Club at 7.30pm in Oxenhope Community Pages Yard asks to use their house as an Community Centre, Shaw Lane, Every 3rd Monday in a month 10am - 4.30pm Keighley Model Railway observation station to try and foil a Oxenhope, BD22 9LS Timothy (starting Mon 3rd Oct) is Scrabble Club, Keighley Business Centre, Knowle Soviet spy ring operating in the area. Walker, lecturer in Plant Sciences at Evenings at Haworth Baptist Church Mils, South Street, Keighley, BD21 The Jacksons become more and more Somerville College Oxford, will deliver a 7 - 8.30 pm. Beginners are most 1SY. Adults £4 Children £2.50. www. put out as Scotland Yard’s demands talk: The Plants of Tenerife – Go where welcome. Use one of our sets or bring keighley-mrc.org.uk on them increase. They are really put Darwin did not. Timothy has given more your own - we’ve even got a set for Sun 9th Oct The Oxenhope village choir, to the test when the detective reveals than 1,500 talks in Britain, Ireland, children £1 a person including a cuppa. the Oxnop Singers, will be performing that the spies are the Krogers and he North America, and Australia and Every Thursday at Holden Hall, their concert in the Oxenhope asks them to help set a trap. Should we asked him back to the Oxenhope Oakworth 1pm-3pm. Oakworth Young Community Centre at 7.15 pm they betray their friends? Performance Gardening Club because we enjoyed at Heart is a social group for the over As usual, they have invited a local band begins at 7.30pm. Box Office 07599 his learned content delivered in such 55’s, with a different event each week. to take part in the concert with them, 890769 an entertaining way. Quiz, Speaker, Bingo, Trips Out, Fun and this time it is the Hall Royd Band. Thurs 13th Oct 7-30 pm Oxenhope Entry £3 non-members. Games, Dancing and much more. The programme includes songs by the Methodist Women’s Fellowship West Sat 22nd Oct 10am to 4pm Keighley We look forward to welcoming new Beach Boys, a medley from Evita, and Drive Dancing for joy speaker Ann Library showing of “Battle of the members, so do come and join us. For other well-known songs. Be prepared Drake everyone welcome . Somme” film. more details, call 01535 958915 for a really enjoyable evening! Fri 14th Oct 7.30pm Haworth Baptist Sat 22nd util Sun 30th Oct Pumpkin Tuesday’s 1.00 till 3.00pm Tickets are £6 each and are available Church Haworth Cinema film Love & Trail at Bolnton Abbey. A spectacular Pensioners Club. Bay Horse Oxenhope - from Susan on 01535 644995 or Friendship. week of fun, seek out the pumpkins and All Welcome. Avril on 01535 646158. Fri 14th - Sun 16th Oct Oktoberfest, witches in Strid Wood. Church Green 50+ Ruggers meet in the Mon 10th Oct Stanbury & District Street Market, Beer Tent, Craft Stalls Sun 23rd Oct Ramblers Association Shared Church Hall (between Church WI 7.30pm at West Lane Baptist at Keighley central. Craven Groups Walk Top Withens & Green & Morrisons in Keighley) on Church, Haworth. Talk with slides Sun16th Oct Train rides for all the Beyond, Meet at 10am Penistone the first Wednesday in every month, about English Tulips. Competitiion A family. Miniature trains running at Hill cp, Haworth. GR SE 019 362 10.00-12.00hrs. . £2 per session. Dutch Souvenir. Marley sports field approx.1.30pm 10 miles. More info call Joan 0770 Refreshments available in Age UK cafe until approx 5pm. Steam and electric 795314. next door. Phone Amy or Michael on trains providing trips for all ages. Great Thurs 27th Oct 7.30pm Oxenhope 01535 669605 or email amy@oaktex. family afternoon out. Refreshments Methodist Women’s Fellowship West co.uk available. Tickets on sale for Bonfire Drive The Brontes Behind Closed Doors Tues 4th Oct 7.30pm Cross Roads & night which must be bought in advance. speaker Pat Osbourne everyone Lees Ladies Group meet at St James Details at www.kdmes.org.uk/trains. welcome. cont.. Church Hall. Dementia Friendly htm speaker Barbara Binns. Thus 20th - Sun 23rd Oct Beer & Thurs 6th Oct Worth Valley Branch of Music Festival on the KWVR 150 beers Yorkshire Countrywomen’s Association and various ciders & wines. Live music 7-30pm, Community Centre, www.kwvr.co.uk. Oxenhope Talk by Karen Shaw – Editor Mon 10th until Sat 15th Oct Pack Thurs 20th Oct Late Night Thursday at of Northern Life magazine. Visitors of Lies at Keighley Playhouse. The the Bronte Parsonage Museum. welcome £3-00, members £1-00 Jacksons are a nice middle aged Mon 24th-Fri 28th Oct Family Events Fri 7th - Sun 9th Oct Autumn Steam English couple. Their best friends for October at the Bronte Parsonage half Gala on the KWVR are their Canadian neighbours, the term www.bronte.org.uk Sun 9th Oct Keighley 7mm Festival Krogers. All is blissful in their world Thurs 20th Oct Oxenhope Gardening
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