FREE Heritage Open Days in 59 FREE EVENTS in Kirklees, 10-19 September 2021 Discover inspirational stories, stunning art & heritage at Kirklees Museums & Galleries

• Fascinating exhibitions • Relaxing gardens & parks • Great coffee & unique gifts

Bagshaw Museum | & Country Park | Birstall | Huddersfield Art Gallery

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For further details visit: www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums Discover inspirational stories, About Heritage Open Days stunning art & heritage at Kirklees Museums & Galleries Heritage Open Days is ’s biggest festival of history and culture. Each September, thousands of sites across the country invite you in to explore local treasures of every age, style and function, and many special events are held. It’s your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all FREE.

In 2020 the festival went ahead but was much restricted by the pandemic. While not quite reaching the heights of 2019, this year will see a fuller Kirklees programme and, alongside old favourites, there are over 20 new entries, many of them celebrating this year’s national theme, Edible England. Some events are also part of the Huddersfield High Street Heritage Action Zone cultural programme centred on St George’s Square. All events are organised independently with support from the Kirklees HOD Committee, which has prepared this brochure.

Many events are open access but some have to be booked. Bookable events are identified in the brochure with details of how to book (there is no centralised booking system this year). Please respect this: if you don’t book and there are no spaces on the day, you will be turned away. All events will of course be managed in accordance with any Covid restrictions in force at the time.

Every effort has been made to ensure that details in this brochure are correct at the time of going to press but sometimes things change, and we have all got used to changing plans over the last 18 months. If you are planning to visit a site, do check www.heritageopendays.org.uk for updated information.

• Fascinating exhibitions Heritage Open Days is coordinated by the National Trust and funded by players of the People’s • Relaxing gardens & parks Postcode Lottery. Kirklees HOD Committee is a partnership of Discover Huddersfield, Friends of Crow Nest Park • Great coffee & unique gifts (), Holme Valley Civic Society, Huddersfield Civic Society, Huddersfield Local History Society, Kirklees Libraries and Museums services and Spen Valley Civic Society. As well as paid | Batley adverts, financial support is gratefully acknowledged from: • Kirklees Councillors’ Local Project Funds for the Denby Dale, Dewsbury and Kirkburton Wards. | Oakwell Hall & Country Park Birstall • The Huddersfield Place Partnerships ‘From the Front Door’ project, led by Huddersfield Ward Tolson Museum | Huddersfield Councillors. • Historic England funding to Kirklees Council for the Huddersfield High Street Heritage Huddersfield Art Gallery Action Zone.

Thanks are also due to participating sites for images, and to Kirklees Museums & Galleries for permission to reproduce the image on p. 15. Follow us on Kirklees Museums & Galleries Key @KirkleesMuseums Parking Disabled parking Accessible toilets Assistance dogs welcome Refreshments

Hearing loop Children’s/family activities available Dogs welcome Partial wheelchair access

Full wheelchair access Pushchair/pram friendly Toilets Baby changing/Breast feeding area

For further details visit: www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums 3 At-a-glance guide to Kirklees events, 10 - 19 September 2021

Listings are accurate at time of going to press. Please visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for updated information. Events highlighted in green contribute to the Edible England theme and those highlighted in pink are part of the Huddersfield High Street Heritage Action Zone.

SITE / EVENT MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 10 SAT 11 SUN 12 MON 13 TUE 14 WED 15 THUR 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19

BATLEY, BIRSTALL & SPEN VALLEY - PAGES 6-7 All Saints Church, Batley

Bagshaw Museum, Batley

Oakwell Hall, Birstall

Red House (online)

St Peter’s Church, Hartshead

St Saviour’s Church, Brownhill

Spen Valley’s Food and Drink Heritage

Whitechapel Church, Cleckheaton COLNE VALLEY - PAGES 8-9 Colne Valley Museum

Edibles, West Slaithwaite - open garden

St Bartholomew’s Church, Marsden

St James’s Church, Slaithwaite

St John’s Church, Golcar DEWSBURY & THORNHILL - PAGES 9-11 Crow Nest Park YES ON 11TH

Dewsbury: a taste of the outdoors

Dewsbury Bee Line Walk YES

Dewsbury Country Park Tree Walk ADVISED

Dewsbury Town Hall YES

John Greenwood Clothing & Jewellery YES

Thornhill Parish Church HOLME VALLEY & MELTHAM - PAGES 11-12 Holmfirth Graveyard Walk & Talk YES

How green is our Holme Valley walk YES

Meltham’s Historic Landscape talk

Meltham in Focus - Carlile Institute

St Mary’s Church, Honley

SITE / EVENT MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 10 SAT 11 SUN 12 MON 13 TUE 14 WED 15 THUR 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19 At-a-glance guide to Kirklees events, 10 - 19 September 2021

SITE / EVENT MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 10 SAT 11 SUN 12 MON 13 TUE 14 WED 15 THUR 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN CENTRE – PAGES 13-19 A great Victorian architect? - W. H. Crossland talk YES

Buildings of the C19 New Town walk YES

Carnival celebrates Huddersfield

Exploring the Town’s Ramsden Heritage walk YES

Family signwriting workshop YES

Huddersfield Heritage Hub

Huddersfield Heritage Mile walks YES

Huddersfield Heritage 5K run YES

Huddersfield Textile walk YES

Huddersfield Town Hall YES

The Irish in Huddersfield walk YES

Kirklees Archives Open Day

Lawrence Batley Theatre YES

Platform 1 Mental Health Services

Run for the Mills talk YES

St Peter’s Parish Church YES for guided tours

Townsounds Street Party HUDDERSFIELD OUTSIDE THE RING ROAD - PAGES 19-22 All Hallows Church,

Allotments, Orchards, Dikes and Shrogs walk YES

Beaumont Park walks

Celebration of Wild Plants, Dalton

King James’s School, Almondbury

Lindley Clock Tower

St Hilda’s Church,

St John’s Church, Birkby

St Stephen’s Church, Lindley

Tolson Museum

Victoria Tower, Castle Hill

Udders Orchard Cidery, Lindley YES

Walking the Banks of the River Colne YES KIRKBURTON & DENBY DALE - PAGES 22-23 All Hallows Church, Kirkburton

Emmanuel Church, Shelley

High Flatts Quaker Meeting House

Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre YES

SITE / EVENT MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 10 SAT 11 SUN 12 MON 13 TUE 14 WED 15 THUR 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19 Biscuits and iconic Batley Variety our tasty edible history with the Open Events Club. Housed in a magnificent Friends of Cleckheaton Library! Grade II* listed Victorian Gothic in Batley, Birstall former mill owner’s home; award https://friendscleckheatonlibrary. & Spen Valley winning Wilton Park has a play wordpress.com area. All ages are welcome.

All Saints Family fun on our free self-guided Round the World food trail. Parish Church www.kirklees.gov.uk/ Stocks Lane, Batley, WF17 8PA bagshawmuseum EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT SUN 19TH 12.30 PM – 4 PM Oakwell Hall

A Grade 1 listed building with a fine heritage dating back to an entry in the Domesday Book. Visitors will be able to explore the history of the church with the guidance of a leaflet and learn about its heritage and how/why it was built. As a Nova Lane, Birstall, Batley, town centre church, All Saints WF17 9LG holds an important place in the local community. SAT 11TH 12 PM - 5 PM SUN 12TH 12 PM – 5 PM www.batleyparishchurch.org SAT 18TH 12 PM – 5 PM SUN 19TH 12 PM – 5 PM NEW EVENT This beautiful Grade I listed EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT Elizabethan manor house, From Ale to Wine displayed as a family home of EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT Gums: Spen Valley’s the 1690s, offers a rare insight into a post-English Civil War Bagshaw Food and Drink household. See period rooms Museum Heritage surprisingly unchanged in over 400 years. Hear the ghost story Wilton Park, Batley, WF17 0AS Cleckheaton Library, Whitcliffe and discover Charlotte Brontë’s SAT 11TH 12 PM - 5 PM Road, Cleckheaton BD19 3DX inspiration for her 1849 novel SUN 12TH 12 PM – 5 PM Shirley. Explore 100 acres of SAT 18TH 10.30 AM – 1 PM period gardens and country park, SAT 18TH 12 PM – 5 PM with trails, mountain bike track, SUN 19TH 12 PM – 5 PM Spen Valley’s food and drink heritage includes sweets playground and picnic areas. Visit Bagshaw Museum to called Midget Gems and Poor Join us for a trail around discover the world in one Ben’s beer, and the original Oakwell Country Park where day! Explore exciting global Fentiman’s Botanical Brewers, you will learn about a wide collections, including the whose founder Thomas variety of edible delights that atmospheric Ancient Egyptian Fentiman lived in Cleckheaton. have been used for centuries ‘Kingdom of Osiris’, Spirit of John Wesley Hillard opened in everything from jams to gin. South Asia and African galleries his first Lion grocery store in After the trail, visit the Hall and and the Victorian seaside. 1885, the forerunner of Hillards pick up recipe sheets and ideas Discover stories from Fox’s Supermarkets. Come and discover

6 www.heritageopendays.org.uk on how to make use of these with Prince Albert. Frieze of lesser known edible treats. Minton tiles. Fine east window. Free trail sheets available from Robert Thompson altar rail. the visitor centre shop. Suitable Plaque in memory of locally- for all ages and families. born missionary. Fine oil painting of Christ by Hans Richter- www.kirklees.gov.uk/oakwell-hall Damm. This year marks our 150th anniversary! Leaflets and a file containing documents and photographs of items in the

church will be displayed. DVDs said to have taken his final arrow. featuring the church and other NEW EVENT The illegally interred remains of local churches will be shown EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT some of the Luddites are also during the day. Red House said to have been buried in the consecrated church grounds. Yorkshire Patrick Bronte served five years as curate in charge of St Peter’s FRI 10TH – SUN 19TH from 1810 and may even be ANY TIME buried on site too. Archived registers will be on display as Whitechapel ONLINE VIA FACEBOOK well as local school records. Church, Cleckheaton Red House Yorkshire Heritage Trust is working with Kirklees

Council to offer seasonal activities at the historic Red House at , and St Saviour’s Church, community activities in The Barn Brownhill in the future. There will be daily posts on Facebook with an Edible England food theme. https://www.facebook.com/ redhouseyorkshire Whitechapel Road, Cleckheaton BD19 6HR St Peter’s Church, SAT 11TH 10 AM - 4 PM SUN 12TH 11 AM – 4 PM Hartshead Whitechapel’s site has seen Church Lane, Hartshead, almost 1,000 years of worship, WF15 8EU with the current building dating from 1820. See the Norman SAT 18TH 10 AM – 3.30 PM Brookroyd Lane, Batley, font, over 900 years old, and SUN 19TH 12.30 PM – 3.30 PM WF17 OBU the rare Ellison bells. Examine church records going back to St Peter’s Church is thought to SAT 11TH 11 AM - 3 PM 1610, search the graveyard for be around 1100 years old, with Brontë relative Rose Heslip’s a short Saxon tower; the two Grade II listed building of 1871, stone, and admire the World Norman arches date to just has unique Victoria and Albert War One stained glass windows, under 1000 years ago. Within stained glass window (verified by funded by parishioners. the large churchyard, with an V & A Museum) commemorating amazing view, stands an old yew Queen Victoria’s Diamond tree from which Robin Hood is Jubilee, depicting the Queen

6 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 7 NEW EVENT St Bartholomew’s Open Events EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT Church, Marsden in the Colne Edibles - open Church Lane, Marsden, HD7 6DJ Valley garden, tour, talk SAT 18TH 10 AM – 4 PM and tea SUN 19TH 11 AM – 4 PM EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT ONLINE VIA FACEBOOK Colne Valley Known as ‘The Cathedral of Museum the Colne Valley’ the Church was designed by local architect William Henry Crossland, a pupil of Sir but ultimately finished, 1895- 1911, by C Hodgson Fowler and said to be his finest parish church. Excellent stained glass windows and mosaic floors. Joint exhibition with Marsden History The Barn, Paddock Farm, Park Group – ‘Changing Marsden: Gate Road, West Slaithwaite, 1800 – 1950: Population and HD7 5XA Textiles’. Normally archived material also on display, including Cliffe Ash, Golcar, HD7 4PY SAT 18TH 10 AM – 6 PM (TALK AND TOUR large churchyard plan and some SAT 11TH 11 AM - 5 PM 11 AM & 3 PM) churchyard records for our SUN 12TH 11 AM – 5 PM family historians! Church tours SUN 19TH 11 AM – 6 PM (TALK AND TOUR available throughout the day. Free admission to the Museum 11 AM & 3 PM) and two exhibitions. On ONLINE - some items will Saturday the Havercake Lads, Take a self-guided walk around also be made available online the re-enactment group of the our 7 acre farm (with map and via our Facebook page, www. 33rd Regiment of Foot, will notes); or, at 11am and 3pm, join facebook.com/Marsden-Parish- make oatcakes (havercakes) us for a talk and tour. We’ll visit Church-St-Bartholomews- in our Victorian kitchen, their our veg plots, forest gardens 148361501959340 staple diet when on manoeuvres. and polytunnels, exploring how www.mses.org.uk On Sunday our volunteers will to use permaculture, ecological demonstrate traditional Colne and no dig approaches to grow Valley recipes such as Robin food and create habitats. Our Cake and Ned (Knead) or pop-up cafe in the Cowshed will

Fat Cakes. serve cream teas, homemade Exhibitions: In Praise of Makers cakes and cordials, teas and by artist Ed Kluz; Exploring the coffees. Jams, cordials and honey History of Your House by the will also be on sale. Organic veg Huddersfield & District Family boxes can be pre-ordered for History Society. collection on the day. www.colnevalleymuseum.org.uk www.edibles.org.uk

8 www.heritageopendays.org.uk St James’s Church, ‘Waterloo’ or ‘Million’ Church, including the exceptionally Open Events Slaithwaite rare Binns organ (which will be played at intervals during the in Dewsbury Church St/Bankgate, Slaithwaite, day), our stained glass windows Huddersfield HD7 5AW & Thornhill and war memorials. There will SAT 18TH 10 AM – 3 PM be access to our burial records and to family history sites and EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENTS A Georgian building, built 1789 experienced help. There will and Grade II listed, with a be interpretative information Crow Nest Park basilica-like interior and tiered around the church, with guides Road, Dewsbury, galleries added in early Victorian to answer your questions, WF13 2SG times. The beautiful and unusual and access to the churchyard, interior will offer old photos and including Commonwealth SAT 11TH 1.30 PM - 3.30 PM documents, an art exhibition and War Graves. Themed to Growing Works will be offering hopefully refreshments. Among ‘Edible England’ and ‘A Taste of outdoor cooked pancakes with many interesting features are a Yorkshire’, light refreshments seasonal topping (in adventure Venetian window dedicated to will be available to purchase playground). Lord Dartmouth and depicting throughout the day. the Good Samaritan. http://stjohnschurchgolcar.org BOOKING ESSENTIAL text 07845 415289 or email [email protected]

EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT THURS 16TH 9.30 AM - 4 PM Open session in walled garden St John the on growing food to eat.

Evangelist Church, SUN 19TH 11 AM – 4 PM Golcar S2R offer A Taste of the Outdoors (see next event below). Church St, Golcar, Huddersfield HD7 4PX Crow Nest Park was bought by Dewsbury Corporation in 1893 SAT 11TH 10.30 AM - 3.30 PM for the ‘pleasure and enjoyment of the people of Dewsbury’. Not We invite visitors to see some just the location for leisurely of the unique parts of our walks and local events, the

walled garden and greenhouses

produce fruit and vegetables.

The Friends of Crow Nest Park

support other voluntary local Can you make groups to offer imagination,

Heritage Open Days better in 2022? inspiration and understanding of

our natural and built inheritance. We are proud of the way the • Its many religious traditions, building annual festival now reflects many on strong participation already by Take this chance to visit us, get

aspects of the history and culture of the Anglican churches. involved and learn more about the places that make up Kirklees. But could your building or organisation • The stories of the diverse migrant the Park and its ‘edibles’. make it better still? communities who have made a home here. www.facebook.com/ We are keen to strengthen the To discuss further, please contact us - representation of: without commitment - and we can add groups/1399860056901415 • The district’s rich textile and you to our mailing list. industrial heritage. [email protected]

8 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 9 NEW EVENT NEW EVENT the Minster, local historian and EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT videographer Simon Reed will Dewsbury Country discuss the places that made Dewsbury: a taste Park - Trees and Dewsbury what it is today of the outdoors and introduce you to various Their Many Uses historical characters, so be Lowfield Road Car Park, prepared to enter into the past Dewsbury Moor, WF13 3SR and join in the fun as well as understanding more of our local SAT 18TH 10 AM history. The tour is designed for adults but children are able to BOOKING ADVISED pick up their own trail leaflet Pete Banks, 07814 879240 or from Greenwoods, Dewsbury’s [email protected] oldest shop in Church St near Join Ranger Pete Banks the Minster. The tour finishes in Market Place. Crow Nest Park Walled Garden, in a walk around this fantastic Heckmondwike Road, Dewsbury, green space and learn about WF13 2SA all the interesting trees and their uses over history. The SUN 19TH 11 AM – 4 PM event is approximately 2 hours long and everyone is welcome. S2R (Support to Recovery) Under-16s must be accompanied have put out an open invite by an adult. Tea, coffee and to the people of Dewsbury biscuits provided. to help us collect the best outdoor cooking recipes the town has to offer. On the day we will be inviting some of the contributors to demonstrate Dewsbury Bee their recipes and tell us a bit Line Trail walking about themselves and where these dishes come from, tour NEW EVENT with fire lighting and cooking Meet at Dewsbury Minster, Dewsbury demonstrations through the day. Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, Being outside and sharing food is WF12 8DD Town Hall great for your well-being! Dewsbury Town Hall, SAT 11TH WALKS 11 AM & 2PM Old Rd, Dewsbury WF12 8DG Part of Dewsbury: Your Health in Mind Project – a project BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR SAT 11TH TOURS AT 11 PM, supported by Dewsbury TOURS (BY 4 SEPT) VIA info@ 12 PM, 1 PM Councillors’ Ward budget. simonreedproductions.com Events near the Town Hall can BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR be enjoyed by all around 11.30 TOURS VIA townhall. [email protected] and 2.30. Experience a behind the scenes Dewsbury is mentioned in tour of Dewsbury Town Hall. the Domesday Book with Look at various aspects of a Minster which dates back the building and find out the to before AD627. The town stories behind the stained glass became prosperous during the windows. See the concert hall 19th century as a Victorian mill and the old courtroom. town, famous for its recycling of

Shoddy and Mungo. Starting at

10 www.heritageopendays.org.uk Greenwoods - Thornhill Dewsbury’s oldest Parish Church of Open Events shop St Michael and in Holme Valley All Angels & Meltham

Church Lane, Thornhill, NEW EVENT WF12 0JZ Holmfirth SAT 11TH 10 AM - 4 PM SUN 12TH 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM Graveyard 2.30 PM - 4 PM Walk & Talk The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a historic Grade 1 listed medieval church with Victorian middle! - created by G E Street. Featuring medieval 3 Church St, Dewsbury, WF13 1JJ glass, amazing monuments dated from the 14th century featuring SAT 11TH 10 AM - 3 PM the Savile family, sympathetic SAT 18TH 10 AM – 3 PM re-ordering and churchyard. The latest conservation project BOOKING ESSENTIAL 01924 461198 or will be completed for this greenwoodclothingjewellery@ weekend by stained glass master btconnect.com (from 1 September) craftsman Jonathan Cooke. www.thornhillparishchurch. Dewsbury’s smallest and newest org.uk museum shows visitors what Holmfirth Graveyard, Station Rd, life was like at Greenwoods Clothing & Jewellery from 1860 Holmfirth, HD9 1AD to the present day. It contains SUN 12TH WALK 3 PM a range of shop memorabilia, artefacts, biographies and BOOKING ESSENTIAL pictures of those who lived Deborah Wyles, 01484 685997 or debhod21@ and worked here, such that btinternet.com (from 30 Aug) visitors of all ages are able to understand more about local history and the life of their A chance to learn about the ancestors. The museum is within many Holme Valley residents the historic shop, which still who died between 100 and 200 contains much of the original years ago and their lives and cabinetry from 1860, whilst still achievements. Local historians a fully functioning shop with have found fascinating facts about a master craftsman working some whose headstones you may jeweller. Come and meet the have passed by many times. famous ‘Bolenium Bill’, resident in the shop since the 1920s, and see what has changed over his lifetime. www.john-greenwood.com

10 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 11 NEW EVENT NEW EVENT NEW EVENT EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT St Mary’s Church, How green is our Meltham in Focus Honley Holme Valley Carlile Institute, Huddersfield Rd, Meltham, Holmfirth HD9 4AE

SUN 12TH 11 AM – 4 PM

Exhibitions of archives and photographs. ‘Edible Memories’. What were your favourite foods and sweets? What are your memories of food shops? Meet at Holmfirth Swimming ‘Meltham in Lockdown: The Pool, Huddersfield Rd, Film.’: come and experience Thongsbridge, HD9 3JL the stories and experiences of FRI 10TH 6.30 PM people in Meltham during the Covid 19 Pandemic. The film will BOOKING ESSENTIAL be on a loop all day to ensure Deborah Wyles, it’s available for everyone to see. 01484 685997 or debhod21@ btinternet.com (from 1 Sept)

A level linear walk into Church St, Honley, Huddersfield Holmfirth, stopping at a number HD9 6AH of planting or artistic schemes along the way. A chance to SAT 11TH 10 AM - 4 PM appreciate the diversity of A church on the cobbles, the projects helping to enhance Church of St Mary the Virgin is the landscape. May be muddy on an ancient holy site where in parts. there have been at least three churches. The present church was constructed in 1843 precisely on the foundations of its predecessor. It was designed NEW EVENT by the eminent Yorkshire Meltham’s Historic architect Robert Dennis Chantrell. You are welcome Landscape to wander at your leisure, Carlile Institute, Huddersfield discover the church’s historical Rd, Meltham, Holmfirth artefacts, or sit and listen to our HD9 4AE wonderful recently restored organ. Or even sit in the old SAT 11TH TALK 7.30 PM stone stocks outside the church.

Lecture by historian Stephen

Caunce, ‘Don’t Just Look At Your Boots! - Walking Through Meltham’s Historic Landscape’. Licensed bar.

12 www.heritageopendays.org.uk NEW EVENT Exploring the Open Events Buildings of Town’s Ramsden in Huddersfield Huddersfield’s C19 Heritage Town Centre ‘New Town’ Meet outside Huddersfield Parish Church, Byram Street, NEW EVENT Meet at St. George’s Square, Huddersfield HD1 1BU A ‘great’ amongst Huddersfield (Harold Wilson statue), HD1 1JF SAT 11TH 10.30 AM Victorian architects? SAT 18TH 10.30 AM BOOKING ESSENTIAL Huddersfield’s discoverhuddersfield.uk/ BOOKING ESSENTIAL heritage-open-days W. H. Crossland discoverhuddersfield.uk/ heritage-open-days In September 1920, Huddersfield New North Road Baptist Corporation finalised its Church, New North Parade, Huddersfield’s mid-nineteenth purchase of the 4300 acres of Huddersfield, , century planned New Town led the Ramsden estate, bringing HD1 5JU to some remarkable buildings an end to the Ramsden family’s through changes in authority, MON 13TH 7.30 PM three-and-a-half centuries as a commerce and technology. leading force in the town. Local Local author Chris Marsden BOOKING REQUIRED historian David Griffiths will lead (opens 28 Aug) – will share stories of significant a walk to key sites that illustrate https://www.eventbrite. buildings within the town’s co.uk/e/164730831351 their influence on the town’s designated High St Heritage development. The walk includes Action Zone (see p.16), selected steps and a stretch along Many of Huddersfield’s best from his book Huddersfield in 50 the canal towpath, so robust buildings are by local architect Buildings – a new way of looking footwear is recommended. William Henry Crossland (1835- at the town’s development. 1908), including Estate Buildings, https://discoverhuddersfield.uk https://discoverhuddersfield.uk Byram Arcade, Kirkgate Buildings (below right) and the

old Post Office. Born in and brought up at Longwood House, Netheroyd Hill, he has celebrated national work to his name too, but a poignant personal story. This talk by his biographer, Sheila Binns, will give an overview of Crossland’s life and work. www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk www.huddersfieldcivicsociety.org.uk

12 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 13 ST GEORGE’S SQUARE Send us your stories

We all have our different memories of Huddersfield’s memories in words or pictures, whether from long iconic Square and so many things have taken place ago or yesterday, to our new website oursquare.org, there. For many people, whether they are coming to or by contacting us at [email protected]. Huddersfield to start a new life or just visiting, the We are also putting together an illustrated book to Square is the very first thing they see. be published in 2023 and your memories of the Square could be included. From the business carried on in its buildings to royal visits, carnivals, fairs and festivals of light, St George’s Huddersfield Local History Society’s Memories of Square has a colourful history. Music, sport, politics Our Square project is supported by Historic England and religion have all played their part. as part of its High Streets Heritage Action Zones [HSHAZ] initiative. Huddersfield Local History Society would like you to help tell that story either by contributing your www.oursquare.org

www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk NEW EVENT NEW EVENT Behind the scenes tour of Huddersfield Town Hall. A Huddersfield Huddersfield chance to take a closer look Textile Walk at public areas and also some Heritage Hub areas which are not usually accessible, including part of WYAS Kirklees, Unit 1, the Civic silverware collection, The Piazza Centre, Princess portrait of Queen Victoria, the Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield various commemorative plaques HD1 2RS (opposite the Library) around the building, features of SAT 11TH 11 AM - 4 PM the Concert Hall including the MON 13TH 9.30 AM – 4 PM Meet outside the Hart (White Father Willis Organ, and the TUES 14TH 9.30 AM - 4 PM Hart Inn), Cloth Hall St, cells of the former Court Room located in the basement of the THURS 16TH 9.30 AM - 4 PM Huddersfield HD1 2DX building. FRI 17TH 9.30 AM - 4 PM SUN 12TH 2.30 PM A welcoming information point BOOKING ESSENTIAL discoverhuddersfield.uk/ and exhibition space hosted by heritage-open-days the Kirklees Archive Service, NEW EVENT featuring: The label ‘Made in Huddersfield’ The Irish in • Huddersfield High Street became a global brand Heritage Action Zone synonymous with the quality Huddersfield and Heritage Open Days woollen and worsted textile information (also available industry. Join Carol Hardy and at the mobile Cholavan in St Julie Mahoney for a walk that Meet at George’s Square – Saturdays explores some of the major St. George’s 11th and 18th). locations associated with the Square, • ‘The Town That Bought Itself’ textile manufacturing industry. Huddersfield exhibition, exploring the We begin at the site of the old (Harold history of the Ramsden family Cloth Hall and visit buildings Wilson and the famous sale of their and locations that are woven statue), Huddersfield estate to the into the textile heritage of HD1 1JF Council in 1920, with Huddersfield, including a mill original archives. which opened in 1846 and is still SUN 19TH 2.30 PM • Memories of our Square operating today. A stroll along BOOKING ESSENTIAL exhibition and collection the canal will take us past sites discoverhuddersfield.uk/ point for you to have your of former mills and converted heritage-open-days memories of St. George’s mill buildings, ending at the top John Lambe explores places Square preserved (see left for of Queen Street South. associated with Irish immigrants more details of the project). https://discoverhuddersfield.uk who came to work on the Drop in during times below canals, in textiles, construction and recently, to study at the SAT 11TH 2 PM - 4 PM Huddersfield University. The walk includes TUES 14TH 11.30 AM - 2 PM Town Hall a tour of St. Patrick’s Church. FRI 17TH 11.30 AM - 2 PM After the walk a free short film, Corporation Street, ‘The Connemara Connection’, Huddersfield, HD1 2TA • Huddersfield Local History will be shown at the Irish Society and partners local SAT 18TH TOURS Centre, 86 Fitzwilliam Street, book stall. 11 AM, 12 PM, 1 PM HD1 5BB at 4.30 pm. The walk does involve some steps. www.wyjs.org.uk/archive-service BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA townhall.bookings@ kirklees.gov.uk https://discoverhuddersfield.uk

www.heritageopendays.org.uk 15 HUDDERSFIELD HIGH STREET HERITAGE ACTION ZONE #HuddsHSHAZ #HistoricHighStreets

Funded by Historic England (HE) and Kirklees Council, to celebrate many aspects of the town’s heritage, the four-year Huddersfield High Street Heritage Action including a Hi!HAZ Active series of activities. The Zone (HSHAZ) (2020-24) focuses on the renovation events during Heritage Open Days are set out below. of two key buildings in and around St George’s Further information on the Heritage Action Zone will Square – the George Hotel and Estate Buildings. be available at the Huddersfield Heritage Hub (see p. Alongside the physical works, HE has also funded 15) and from the Cholavan, located in the Square on a Cultural Programme centred around the Square Saturdays 11th and 18th September.

Date Times Place Event

SAT 11TH 10 AM Arcade Coffee & Food, Family sign writing workshop – 5 PM Byram Arcade, HD1 1ND An introduction to the history of the HAZ area and the skills of sign writing - each attendee to leave with their own painted sign, in Gothic Bold Lettering. Accessible to all age groups, has wheelchair access. Anyone under the age of 16 needs to be accompanied by an adult (for younger children it might be just a colouring in exercise).

BOOKING REQUIRED – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/165410289629

SAT 11TH 1 PM St George’s Square Huddersfield Carnival celebrates – 1.30 PM Huddersfield Huddersfield Carnival Collaboration dances and Carnival Queen will perform in costumes themed “Huddersfield to the World” celebrating the Rugby World Cup its links to Huddersfield as the birthplace of Rugby League. Dancers’ costumes and the large showpiece costume are funded by Historic England and the Arts Council.

MON 13TH 12.30 PM – St George’s Square Huddersfield Heritage Mile 1.30 PM (Harold Wilson statue) A short walk of just over a mile (one hour), based on the Huddersfield Town Centre Heritage Trail, taking in many of the historic buildings, learning of the town’s growth and in particular the influence of the Ramsden family upon the Town. Led by HAZ project officer John Lambe. BOOKING REQUIRED www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/165746561427 HUDDERSFIELD HIGH STREET TUES 14TH 12.30 PM – St George’s Square Huddersfield Heritage Mile 1.30 PM (Harold Wilson statue) HERITAGE ACTION ZONE See Mon 13th WED 15TH 12.30 PM – St George’s Square Huddersfield Heritage Mile 1.30 PM (Harold Wilson statue) #HuddsHSHAZ #HistoricHighStreets See Mon 13th

WED 15TH 6 PM Arcade Beers, Huddersfield Heritage 5K run 6 Station St, HD1 1LN An extension of the Heritage Mile, taking in the Canal and Greenhead Park too. The run is suitable for all abilities, and offered by Mikkeller Running Club.

BOOKING REQUIRED – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/165413188299

WED 15TH 8 PM Byram Arcade, Run for the Mills HD1 1ND Charles Smith, Head of Region for Historic England, will share his personal lockdown mission to run to 150 historic mills from his Huddersfield home. He will showcase the plight of mills today, from ruinous remains to thriving places where people work, live and play, and challenge us to consider how these historic and cultural landmarks can be 21st century engines of prosperity.

BOOKING REQUIRED – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ run-for-the-mills-tickets-165414444055

THURS 16TH 12.30 PM – St George’s Square Huddersfield Heritage Mile 1.30 PM (Harold Wilson statue) See Mon 13th

FRI 17TH 4 PM – St George’s Square Huddersfield Heritage Mile 5 PM (Harold Wilson statue) See Mon 13th

FRI 17TH 6 PM – 7.30 Northern Quarter, Townsounds PM 28 - 30 Wood St, HD1 1DU Let’s Go Yorkshire in collaboration with Huddersfield 7.30 PM – Carnival, Axis Valv-a-tron and Northern Quarter 9 PM presents ‘TOWNSOUNDS Street Party’, a celebration of Huddersfield’s reggae sound system culture! 6.00 -7.30 family event outdoors 7.30 – 9.00 reggae dance outdoors

SAT 18TH 6 PM – Northern Quarter, Townsounds 7.30 PM 28 - 30 Wood St, HD1 1DU See Fri 17th 7.30 PM – The family event on Saturday (6.00 -7.30) will also feature 9 PM the Huddersfield Carnival showpiece from the mas band.

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Kirklees Archives Batley Theatre Platform 1 Mental Open Day Queen St, Huddersfield Health Services HD1 2SP

FRI 10TH TOURS 11 AM & 2 PM

SAT 11TH TOURS 11 AM & 2 PM THURS 16TH TOUR 2 PM SUN 19TH TOURS 11 AM & 2 PM

BOOKING ESSENTIAL WYAS Kirklees, Unit 1, www.thelbt.org or email St George’s Square, The Piazza Centre, Princess [email protected] Huddersfield, HD1 1JF (next to Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield Head of Steam pub) Discover the 200+ years of HD1 2RS (opposite the Library) FRI 10TH 10.30 AM, rich history within the walls of 11.30 AM, 12.30 PM, 2 PM MON 13TH 1 PM – 4 PM the theatre. Built as a Wesleyan MON 13TH 10.30 AM, Mission in the early 1800s, the Go behind the scenes with the 11.30 AM, 12.30 PM, 2 PM church was then the largest West Yorkshire Archive Service WED 15TH 10.30 AM, Methodist chapel in the world. Kirklees team to explore the 11.30 AM, 12.30 PM, 2 PM Now grade II* listed, it is jam- treasures and professional packed with fascinating history THURS 16TH 10.30 AM, practices of your archive 11.30 AM, 12.30 PM, 2 PM and notable names. During your service. Showcasing the exciting one-hour tour you’ll discover FRI 17TH 10.30 AM, ‘Creating Kirklees’ cataloguing 11.30 AM, 12.30 PM, 2 PM how the building was converted project, the team will reveal into a theatre in the early 1990s, BOOKING NOT REQUIRED how Kirklees’ unique archives how the technicians make our but numbers on each tour are conserved and made limited shows look and sound great, accessible for current and future and where our performers get generations to discover and Platform 1 is a unique mental ready to entertain you. You’ll enjoy! Drop in to join regular health project offering support also get the very first look at the demonstrations. when life becomes difficult. renovated spaces following our This is our community centre capital redevelopment project, www.wyjs.org.uk/archive-service for men, who meet for varied A Theatre For Tomorrow, this activities in two heritage railway summer. After the tour, the vehicles, a Pullman coach and Courtyard Café-Bar offers a large the first ever Pacer Train! It range of delicious local produce. is a working site but you are www.thelbt.org welcome to visit, learn about what we do, enjoy our railway heritage and perhaps have a Pacer train driving lesson! Come and learn about how heritage trains help many people as their journeys combine! https://platform-1.co.uk/

18 www.heritageopendays.org.uk St Peter’s NEW EVENT Parish Church Open Events EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT in Huddersfield Allotments, (beyond the ring road) Orchards, Dikes and Shrogs EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT All Hallows Church, Almondbury

Birkby & Fartown Library, Lea Street, Hillhouse, HD1 6HF Byram St, Huddersfield HD1 1BU WED 15TH WALK 1 PM

MON 13TH – FRI 17TH BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA 10 AM – 2 PM Ticketsource - www.ticketsource.co.uk/ The site is free to explore kirkleeslibraries but guided tours (approx. 1 hour) must be pre-booked Join Lorna Brooks of Kirklees – 01484 427964 or office@ Local Studies Library for a local huddersfieldparishchurch.org history walk to explore the 2 Westgate, Almondbury, The Grade II* church is the third hidden green spaces of Birkby Huddersfield HD5 8XE on the site and dates from 1836. past and present. Starting at Several features date from the SAT 11TH 10 AM - 4 PM the new library with its edible second church, consecrated in SUN 12TH 2 PM – 4 PM garden we will follow footpaths 1506, including the Elizabethan and back lanes to discover the font and 16th century wood The church is a medieval history of growing places and panelling. The chancel features a building with superb wooden wild areas. An alternative look at baldacchino and East window by ceiling, fine medieval glass, good Birkby’s history and geography. Sir Ninian Comper (1923). quality Victorian windows and Duration 1.5-2 hours. A large balcony with fine possesses several ‘Mouseman’ Walk not suitable for wheelchair stained glass can be accessed (Thompson of Killburn) carved users. Dogs welcome. Library during the visits. The ceiling pieces. It has links to the Kayes and garden have wheelchair has fine details and interesting and Dartmouths of Woodsome access and accessible toilets. bosses; there is a fine Conacher Hall. Visit an exhibition of organ dating from the early 20th Yorkshire foods. Enjoy a cafe century, a significant collection connected with the above. of ‘Mouseman’ oak furniture Follow a children’s trail round and a “Teddy Trail” for families the church and churchyard. Visit and children. the bell tower ringing chamber not normally open to the huddersfieldparishchurch.org public. Guides will be available throughout the event.

18 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 19 Beaumont Park King James’s School architect Edgar Wood, who was Sykes’ nephew. A Grade II* listed building, it has extensive Art Nouveau decoration by sculptor T Stirling Lee. Tours will take 15 minutes and involve climbing 69 steps. www.lindleygroup.org.uk

SUN 12TH 2 PM & 4 PM NEW EVENT SUN 19TH 2 PM & 4 PM Learn about the history and St. Helen’s Gate, St Hilda’s Church, heritage of Beaumont Park, Almondbury, HD4 6SG Cowcliffe and local from its Victorian origins to SAT 18TH 10 AM – 2 PM history the present day. In 1879, Henry The original school of 1547, the Frederick Beaumont offered Old School House rebuilt in the land at Dungeon Wood for the 1750s and Victorian additions creation of Huddersfield’s first are all still in use. Visitors can public park. Opened in 1883 walk round the old dormitories and well-loved by the people and the rooms of the Old of Huddersfield, it goes from School House. This year we strength to strength as the feature the link between the Friends of Beaumont Park work School and the formation of the together with Kirklees Council Rugby Football League in 1895, to bring about improvements, with the Head of King James’s including the Nature Story Trail playing a very significant role in 139 Netheroyd Hill Rd, and the brand new play area its break-away from the Rugby Huddersfield HD2 2LX under construction. Football Union. We will also be SAT 11TH 10 AM - 4 PM showing how the School, which was a boarding school up to Opened as a school in 1856, 1922, coped with the lack of this was the first building NEW EVENT food during the Great War. designed by local resident and EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT www.kingjames.org.uk architect W.H. Crossland (1835- Celebration 1908), who went on to design many celebrated buildings in of Wild Plants Huddersfield and elsewhere in Wakefield Road allotments, the country (see also talk, p.13), Dalton, HD5 9XN (down track his most famous being the Royal next to 505 Hairdressers) Lindley Clock Tower Holloway College, Egham, . Visual displays and presentations SAT 18TH 2 PM – 4 PM 6 Lidget St, Huddersfield, will tell a comprehensive story HD3 3JB of isolated villages scattered BOOKING ESSENTIAL with farms and quarries. The text 07845 415289 or email SAT 11TH 10 AM - 2 PM [email protected] Road skirted the nearby Lindley Clock Tower was estate with its Thornhill Growing Works will be offering erected in 1902 by local and Oastler connections. foraging, plant identification, industrialist James Nield Sykes discussing benefits and uses of and designed in the Art Nouveau wild plants, along with sampling style by Manchester-based different herbal or fruit teas.

20 www.heritageopendays.org.uk St John the St Stephen’s EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT Evangelist Church, Church, Lindley Tolson Memorial Birkby Museum Lidget Street, Lindley HD3 3JB

SAT 18TH 10.30 PM – 5 PM

St Stephen’s is a Grade II listed building designed by renowned local architect John Oates, and built in 1829 by Joseph Kaye, known as the ‘Builder of Huddersfield’. Discover the heritage of St Stephen’s - including its Mouseman of Kilburn furnishings - and the community Ravensknowle Park, Wakefield it serves. Refreshments will be Road, Huddersfield HD5 8DJ available throughout the day, SAT 11TH 12 PM - 5 PM alongside stalls and games for the SUN 12TH 12 PM – 5 PM whole family. SAT 18TH 12 PM – 5 PM St John’s Road, Huddersfield, www.facebook.com/ SUN 19TH 12 PM – 5 PM HD1 5EA ststephenslindley FRI 10TH 10 AM - 2 PM Amazing objects chart SAT 11TH 10 AM - 2 PM Huddersfield’s history from the Iron Age to the boom in FRI 17TH 10 AM - 2 PM the textile industry. See vintage SAT 18TH 10 AM – 2 PM vehicles. Don’t miss our Have a look round our Victoria Tower, photographic exhibition, ‘A Grade II* listed building, Woman’s Work is Never with its magnificent stained Castle Hill Done’, exploring the working glass windows. Designed by lives of late 19th and early 20th Hillside, Lumb Lane, century women as they fought architect William Butterfield, Almondbury HD4 6TA one of England’s most notable for equal opportunities and practitioners of the High SAT 18TH 12 PM – 4.30 PM better conditions. Galleries Victorian style of architecture, SUN 19TH 12 PM – 4.30 PM include our World War I and its construction was entrusted Suffragist exhibitions and the to Joseph Kaye, the ‘builder Perched on Castle Hill, Victoria taxidermy ‘half animals’. Park, of Huddersfield’. It was endowed Tower was completed in playground and shop. by the locally dominant 1899 to celebrate the 60th Family fun on our free self- landowners the Ramsden family, anniversary of Queen Victoria’s guided food trail around the the foundation stone being laid reign. The tower was renovated museum. in 1851 by Sir John William in 1960 when the top seven Ramsden. Join us for a cup of feet were removed, and now www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums/ tea or coffee whilst you listen to reaches almost 997 feet above tolsonmuseum our superb 3 manual pipe organ. sea level. Castle Hill contains diverse wildlife habitats and www.stjohnsbirkby.org.uk is a designated Local Nature Reserve. www.kirklees.gov.uk/castlehill

20 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 21 NEW EVENT returning to our rivers in urban team will demonstrate the art of EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT Huddersfield. Come and find Bell Ringing. Refreshments will out more along this 1.25 mile be served throughout the day. ‘Udders Orchard one way walk as we follow the river along surfaced footpaths. www.allhallowschurch.com Cidery The walk will finish at the John 70a Acre Street, Lindley, Smiths Stadium, HD1 6PG. HD3 3HA https://discoverhuddersfield.uk SAT 11TH TALKS AT 12.30 PM & 2.30 PM Emmanuel Church, BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA Shelley uddersorchardcider.co.uk/hod Open Events (room for more sessions if demand exists) in Kirkburton & Denby Dale A 30 minute or so informal ramble through the world of All Hallows’ Church, cidermaking and cider - its history and its place in culture. Kirkburton Get to see the equipment and try a sample of the produce that we make here in Lindley. Opportunity to buy cider; no purchase necessary! Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield, HD8 8LH

SAT 18TH 10.30 AM – 3 PM

NEW EVENT A lovely grade II listed Church, where everyone will be Walking the Banks Huddersfield Rd, Kirkburton, welcome at our fun-filled day of the River Colne HD8 0TE “Respect Nature”, a celebration of our beautiful environment, Steps down to the Riverside SAT 11TH 10 AM - 4 PM with nature-themed craft Way at Kingsbridge, Kings Bridge activities for children throughout Road, HD1 3AY. All Hallows’ Church, a beautiful the day and an opportunity and significant medieval to sow seeds in our wildlife SAT 11TH 2.30 PM building, stands in a Green Flag garden. Visit the bell tower and award-winning Churchyard. Get try bell ringing. HLF funded BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA involved and sign up to our discoverhuddersfield.uk/ Graveyard Mapping information heritage-open-days ‘Adopt a Grave’ programme. for visitors. Talks by Shelley Research your family history Hedgehogs (am) and the RSPB The Greenstreams Project has via the Burial Ground Project, (pm). Refreshments throughout been restoring and upgrading with guidance from members of the day. the Riverside Way, improving the Kirkburton History Group. Music throughout the day will www.emmanuelchurchshelley. riverside greenspaces and access co.uk to the river and promoting be provided by Philip Sutcliffe walking and cycling routes. (organist) and members of Hade

With river water quality Edge Band, who will play in the afternoon. There will be Bell improvements, wildlife is also Tower Tours and the Bell Tower

22 www.heritageopendays.org.uk High Flatts Quaker Skelmanthorpe hour. In view of the confined space visitors will be limited to 4 Meeting House Textile Heritage at a time. Leaflets for self-guided walks along the Skelmanthorpe Firth Lane, High Flatts, Centre Village Trail will be available. HD8 8XU 6 Queen Street, Skelmanthorpe, THURS 16TH 10 AM - 5 PM https://fosthc.wixsite.com/ HD8 9DU skeltexheritage FRI 17TH 10 AM - 5 PM THURS 16TH 12 PM - 5 PM SAT 18TH 10 AM – 5 PM FRI 17TH 12 PM - 5 PM SUN 19TH 12.30 PM – 5 PM SAT 18TH 10 PM – 4 PM Very early Quaker meeting SUN 19TH 10 AM – 4 PM house, c. 1653. Situated in a hamlet which was, until recently, BOOKING ESSENTIAL exclusively Quaker owned. email [email protected] or 01484 606275 The building is built in local stone and can offer spectacular This small textile heritage views of the rolling countryside. centre comprises the family Guided nature tours of the living-quarters, maintained and area available upon request, furnished as a West Riding featuring reflections upon local weaver’s family home would historical agriculture and rural have been c1900. Upstairs is an industry, along with a look at authentic hand loom in working a 1932 typhoid epidemic and condition, along with fascinating the original village water supply displays & artefacts linked to driven by water power. our textile history. Guides will be present and there will be www.highflattsquakers.org.uk loom demonstrations Friday & Saturday 1pm-4pm, Sunday 10am - 1pm. Visits will last about one

This brochure has been compiled, produced and distributed by the Kirklees HOD Committee, comprising the Kirklees Council Libraries and Museums & Galleries Services and the following voluntary organisations. If you would like to take part in future Heritage Open Days, you can contact us by emailing [email protected]

Discover Huddersfield Huddersfield Civic Society discoverhuddersfield.uk huddersfieldcivicsociety.org.uk

Friends of Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury Huddersfield Local facebook.com/groups/ History Society 1399860056901415 huddersfieldhistory.org.uk

Holme Valley Civic Society Spen Valley Civic Society holmfirthhistory.org.uk spenvalleycivicsociety.org.uk

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