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FREE Heritage Open Days in Kirklees 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 | Batley Oakwell Hall & Country Park | Birstall Tolson Museum | Huddersfield Huddersfield Art Gallery Follow us on Kirklees Museums & Galleries @KirkleesMuseums 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 England’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 (Dewsbury), 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 Bagshaw Museum | 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 Yorkshire (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, Almondbury 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, Cowcliffe 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.
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