FREE Heritage Open Days in 68 FREE EVENTS in Kirklees, 13-22 September 2019

@kirklees_hod e: [email protected] About Heritage Open Days

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 2019, for the first time, it runs for 10 full days. This brochure has been prepared by the Kirklees HOD Committee, which has supported the local programme. Alongside many old favourites, there are 30 new entries, and our best ever spread across all parts of the district. To coincide with the bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre in Manchester, some events celebrate this year’s national theme, People Power.

Most events are open access but due to limited capacity, some have to be booked. Bookable events are identified in the brochure and the booking process is explained opposite. Please respect this: if you don’t book, you will be turned away. If you do book but find you can’t attend, please tell the booking service.

Kirklees HOD Committee is a partnership of Discover , Civic Society, Huddersfield Civic Society, Huddersfield Local History Society, Kirklees Libraries and Museums services and Spen Valley Civic Society. We are hugely grateful to the site organisers and volunteers for the work they do and to the partners and the advertisers who have funded this brochure. As well as those with paid adverts, donations from participating sites are gratefully acknowledged: Colne Valley Museum, Friends of Cleckheaton Library, Friends of Greenhead Park, Moravian Church, Lindley Methodist Church, Old Almondburians, Roebuck Homes Trust, St Saviour’s , St Mary’s Mirfield, Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre, Whitechapel Church Cleckheaton. Heritage Open Days is coordinated by the National Trust and funded by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery. Every effort has been made to ensure that details in this brochure are correct at time of going to press but sometimes things change: for updated information please check www.heritageopendays.org.uk.

Heritage Open Days in September 2020 ... will YOU join the festival?

Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk committing yourself to anything for more information, or e-mail local at this stage, beyond being added to organisers at [email protected] our mailing list for updates about to express an interest. You will not be plans for 2020.

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Where BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP appears, bookings are to be made at the Visitor Information Point (VIP), Huddersfield Library, Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, HD1 2SU Phone: 01484 223200, press 3 (Huddersfield Tourist Information Centre option) Email: [email protected] The VIP’s opening hours are: Mon – Fri 9 AM – 5 PM, Sat 10 AM – 4 PM

Bookings at the VIP open from Saturday 24 August For other events where booking is required or advised, see the relevant entry.

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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

2 At-a-glance guide to Kirklees events

Listings are accurate at time of going to press. Please visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for updated information. Events highlighted in orange contribute to the People Power theme.

SITE MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 13 SAT 14 SUN 15 MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THUR 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 22

BATLEY & BIRSTALL - PAGES 6–7 All Saints Church

Bagshaw Museum

Bagshaw Museum - People Power Tours

Bagshaw Museum - Early Gardens

Oakwell Hall, Birstall

St Peter’s Church, Birstall

St Saviour’s Church, Brownhill COLNE VALLEY - PAGES 7–9 Christ Church, Linthwaite

Colne Valley Museum - Tea For Two Or More!

Heath House Mill - Green Building Store

St Bartholomew’s Church, Marsden

St James’s Church, Slaithwaite

St John’s Church, Golcar

Shred Mission Church, Slaithwaite

Walking With Women’s Suffrage YES & THORNHILL - PAGES 9–12 Crow Nest Park

Dewsbury Minster Handbell Ringing Workshop PREFERRED (not VIP)

Dewsbury Minster Tower Tours PREFERRED (not VIP)

Dewsbury Town Centre Friendship Event YES (not VIP)

Dewsbury Town Centre Tour YES

John Greenwood Clothing & Jewellery YES (for tours)

Thornhill Parish Church HOLME VALLEY & MELTHAM - PAGES 12–13 Carlile Institute, Meltham

Holmfirth Blue Plaque Walk YES (not VIP)

Honley Cemetery Tour

Lydgate Unitarian Chapel

Th’owd Towser,

Wooldale Quaker Meeting House HUDDERSFIELD - PAGES 14–20 Dugdale Bros & Co YES

Greenhead College: Mindfulness Meditation YES (not VIP)

Greenhead Park: Thomas Denham’s Vision YES

Hall of Science YES

Holocaust Exhibition & Learning Centre

SITE MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 13 SAT 14 SUN 15 MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THUR 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 22 SITE MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 13 SAT 14 SUN 15 MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THUR 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 22

YES (Tower Tours Holy Trinity Church only – not VIP) Huddersfield Library – Behind The Scenes YES

Huddersfield’s Radical Heritage YES

Huddersfield Town Hall YES

King James’s School, Almondbury

Roebuck Memorial Homes

St John’s Church, Birkby

St Joseph’s Catholic Church

St Peter’s Parish Church YES (for tours – not VIP)

St Thomas’s Church

Surprising Lockwood YES

Tolson Museum - Mikron Theatre

Tolson Museum - People Power Tours

Vajrapani Kadampa Buddhist Centre

Victoria Tower, Castle Hill KIRKBURTON & DENBY DALE - PAGES 21–22 All Hallows Church, Kirkburton

Cliffe House, Shepley

Emmanuel Church, Shelley

High Flatts Quaker Meeting House

St James’ Church, Flockton

Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre LINDLEY - PAGE 23 Briarcourt YES (for tours)

Lindley Clock Tower

Lindley Methodist Church

St Stephen’s Church MIRFIELD - PAGES 24–25 The Engine Room’s C19 Piggery

Lower Hopton United Reformed Church

Mirfield Masonic Lodge PREFERRED (not VIP)

St Mary's Community Heritage Site

ADVISED FOR FILMS Salvation Army In Mirfield (not VIP)

SPEN VALLEY - PAGES 25–26 Gomersal Moravian Church

Luddites At Cleckheaton Library

Oakwell Hall, Birstall

St John’s Church, Cleckheaton

Spen Valley Luddite Walk

Whitechapel Church, Cleckheaton

SITE MUST BE BOOKED? FRI 13 SAT 14 SUN 15 MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THUR 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 22 Fox’s Biscuits and iconic Batley NEW EVENT Open Events Variety Club. Housed in a magnificent Grade II* Listed Bagshaw Museum in Batley Victorian Gothic former mill - the early garden & Birstall owner’s home; award winning Wilton Park has a play area and phases café. Come and make vintage Wilton Park, Batley, WF17 0AS All Saints crafts including pomanders, zoetropes and embroidery SUN 15TH TOUR 1 PM (SEE ABOVE) TALK & WALK 2 PM - 4 PM Parish Church samplers. All ages are welcome. Stocks Lane, Batley, WF17 5DL www.kirklees.gov.uk/ The Bagshaw started life as The SAT 21ST 10 AM – 4 PM bagshawmuseum Woodlands, built in 1875-6 as the home of George Sheard, Visit a Grade 1 church and learn local millowner and eccentric. of its architectural and historical It was given to the Borough of aspects through our informative Batley in 1909. The terraced leaflets and archived registers of gardens to the south were baptisms and marriages. Some NEW EVENT thought to be the only ones, but visitors may be able to ascend PEOPLE POWER EVENT a detailed survey of earthworks the 200 or so steps to the top throughout the woodlands of of the bell tower at certain Bagshaw Museum Wilton Park has revealed four times during the day. Light – People Power tour garden phases from 1887 to refreshments will be served c.1918. The event will explore and free parking is available. Wilton Park, Batley, WF17 0AS these and how they relate to other gardens. Stout www.batleyparishchurch.org SUN 15TH 1 PM & 2.30 PM footwear and warm clothes are recommended. Join our volunteer guides for a fascinating tour focusing on www.kirklees.gov.uk/ ‘People Power’; the men and bagshawmuseum women who have shaped the Bagshaw Museum history of Wilton Park and Bagshaw Museum. Tours last Wilton Park, Batley, WF17 0AS approximately 40 minutes and are family friendly. MUSEUM AND CRAFTS SAT 14TH 12 NOON – 5 PM www.kirklees.gov.uk/ bagshawmuseum MUSEUM Oakwell Hall SUN 15TH 12 NOON – 5 PM TOURS (SEE BELOW) 1 PM & 2.30 PM see page 26 ...

Visit Bagshaw Museum to discover the world in one day! Explore exciting global collections, including the atmospheric Ancient Egyptian ‘Kingdom of Osiris’, Spirit of South Asia and African galleries and the Victorian seaside. Discover stories from

6 www.heritageopendays.org.uk NEW EVENT St Saviour’s Church, Huddersfield, one of six built between 1828 and 1832. Our St Peter’s Church, Brownhill church features a beautiful Birstall Brookroyd Lane, Batley, chancel added in 1895, a fine WF17 OBU reredos with statues carved in Kirkgate, Birstall, Batley, wood by acclaimed York-based WF17 9PB sculptor George Walker Milburn, and an excellent J J Binns organ. Christ Church is rich in local history so come along and have a look. www.linthwaitechurch.org.uk

SAT 14TH 11 AM – 3 PM

Grade II listed building of 1871, has unique Victoria and Albert Colne Valley stained glass window (verified by Museum - Tea for V & A Museum) commemorating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Two or More! Jubilee. Frieze of Minton tiles. Cliffe Ash, Golcar, HD7 4PY FRI 20TH 12 NOON – 4 PM Fine east window. Robert SAT 21ST 12 NOON – 4 PM Thompson altar rail. Plaque SUN 22ND 12 NOON – 4 PM in memory of locally-born missionary. Fine oil painting of Celebrate 900 years of St Peter’s Christ by Hans Richter-Damm. Church. Re-built between Leaflets and a file containing 1865 and 1870, it incorporates documents and photographs will a 15th century tower with a be displayed. DVDs featuring the Norman base. A mural above church and other local churches the chancel arch was painted by will be shown during the day. Pre-Raphaelite artist, Reginald E Frampton and there are some beautiful stained glass windows, including work by Charles SAT 14TH 2 PM – 5 PM Kempe, JB Capronnier and F SUN 15TH 2 PM - 5 PM X Zettler. Briarfield Church in Open Events Charlotte Bronte’s novel Shirley See how a Colne Valley is modelled on St Peter’s. Her in Colne Valley handloom weaver and family friend Ellen Nussey is buried in lived and worked in the the graveyard. Visits to the tower 1850s. Taste a freshly baked and ringing chamber. Display of Christ Church, scone made in our Victorian historical registers, documents Linthwaite kitchen, see the exhibition and artefacts. Demonstration of Childhood Revisited and explore stone carving. 4 Church Lane, Linthwaite, the well hidden beneath your Huddersfield, HD7 5TA www.facebook.com/ feet! The row of weavers’ stpetersbirstall cottages which houses the SAT 14TH 10 AM – 3 PM Colne Valley Museum offers Have a look around the first a complete weaver’s cottage, ‘Waterloo church’ built in exhibition gallery and textile

6 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 7 room. Visitors can visit our St Bartholomew’s Built 1789 with tower and ‘rescued’ clog maker’s workshop galleries added in early Victorian and check out our latest Church, Marsden times to provide seating acquisition the Clog Maker Church Lane, Marsden, HD7 6DJ for 1000. Venetian window automaton. dedicated to Lord Dartmouth and depicting the Good www.colnevalleymuseum.org.uk Samaritan. Many interesting features. Grade II listed. Three films of Old Slawit to be shown.

Heath House

Mill - Green SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM NEW EVENT Building Store SUN 15TH 11 AM – 4 PM SAT 21ST 10 AM – 4 PM St John’s Church, Heath House Lane, Golcar, Huddersfield, HD7 4JR SUN 22ND 11 AM – 4 PM Golcar A large church built in the Church St, Golcar, HD7 4PX Victorian Gothic Revival style, with fine stained glass windows and mosaic floors and known as the ‘Cathedral of the Colne Valley’. Church tours available throughout the day. Archived material on display, including some graveyard records for our family historians! This year we have an exhibition of Marsden History Group’s extensive research into the village’s history, including its textile SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM SAT 21ST 10.30 AM – 4 PM heritage. Light refreshments CONCERT AT 4PM served in Church. View a display, photos and As we approach our bicentenary www.marsdenparishchurch.org.uk presentation featuring key dates in 2030, we invite visitors to and events in Heath House share in our history. There will

Mill’s history and a chance to be guided tours of the church, explore a part of the Mill. There showcasing the stained glass will also be talks on low energy and memorials. We have a very building and retrofits of existing rare Binns organ and we hope NEW EVENT buildings and a chance to look to have two or three organists around Green Building Store’s St James’s Church, playing it across the day. Burial showroom which is located records will be available, with a within the mill. Drinks and Slaithwaite genealogist present. refreshments will be available. Bankgate, Slaithwaite, www.stjohnschurchgolcar.org Huddersfield, HD7 5DL www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk

SAT 14TH 10 AM – 3 PM

WED 18TH 10 AM – 12 NOON SAT 21ST 10 AM – 3 PM

8 www.heritageopendays.org.uk NEW EVENT War Memorial. Crow Nest Park was bought by Dewsbury Shred Mission Corporation in 1893 for the Church ‘pleasure and enjoyment of the people’. It is a well-established Bradshaw Lane, Slaithwaite, magnet for leisurely walks Huddersfield, HD7 5UZ with interesting features. Take this chance to visit us, learn about the Park’s history and find out more of the Victorian imagination with a guided walk of about 60 minutes.

Please bring packed lunch. The SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM walk ends in Slaithwaite for A Victorian Mission Church Q&A and tea. Walkers then need dewsburyparkmansion.uk with gallery and adjoining later to make their own way back to the start (buses available). meeting room. Built in 1836 NEW EVENT on a shred of land donated by www.jliddington.org.uk Lord Dartmouth. Diamond Dewsbury Minster glassed windows with fragments – Handbell Ringing of stained glass and some wall decorations. Quaint and friendly. Workshop Open Events Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, in Dewsbury & WF12 8DD Thornhill PEOPLE POWER EVENT NEW EVENT Walking with Crow Nest Park Women’s Suffrage Heckmondwike Road, Dewsbury, Canal towpath below Red WF13 2SA: meet in front of the FRI 20TH 7 PM – 9 PM & Green Club, Bankwell Rd, Mansion. Milnsbridge, HD3 4LU BOOKING PREFERRED Book from 1 Sept - SUN 15TH WALK 12 NOON SMS to 0752 197 2632; BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP booked places have priority. Join suffrage historian Jill The event will start with a short Liddington for a 3.5 mile walk talk on handbell ringing: a little in footsteps of local suffragists history of the bands and the and suffragettes. The linear Dewsbury community. Then a route passes homes and villages demonstration, followed by a of local campaigners including SUN 15TH WALKS 10.30 AM workshop where visitors can Elizabeth Pinnance, imprisoned & 3.30 PM have a go. in 1907 for 14 days and Florence FRI 20TH WALK 10.30 AM Lockwood, a Linthwaite mill belfrytales.uk owner’s wife and member of the Not just a Grade II listed suffragist NUWSS, who designed Victorian park to an original the Huddersfield branch banner. design, but a place to see varied local history including the town’s

8 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 9 NEW EVENT NEW EVENT NEW EVENT Dewsbury Minster – Dewsbury Town Dewsbury Town Tower Tours Centre – Friendship Hall / Pioneer Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, Twinning House Tour WF12 8DD Dewsbury Minster, Dewsbury Town Hall, SAT 14TH TOURS Vicarage Road, Dewsbury, Old Rd, Dewsbury, WF12 8DG 10 AM & 1 PM WF12 8DD BOOKING PREFERRED Masjid Abu Bakr Siddique Book from 1 Sept - mosque, Ernest St, Dewsbury, SMS to 0752 197 2632; WF13 1PR booked places have priority WED 18TH 10 AM – 3 PM Explore the Church Tower. BOOKING REQUIRED Our ringers will take you up the Book via eventbrite.co.uk/e/ tower – see the bells and maybe dewsbury-friendship-event- ring a bell. Involves climbing our tickets-66443473217 [Minster] ancient Norman spiral stone and -66443563487 [Mosque] staircase to the ringing room. Working in partnership with belfrytales.uk Kirklees Council, two faith centres will open their doors so local people can learn about the heritage of the buildings and local history of the surrounding area. Visit them for a guided tour and an opportunity to ask about SAT 14TH TOURS the local history of the area. 11.30 AM & 2.30 PM You will have an opportunity to BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP ask questions, learn about the religions and make new friends. A walking tour hosted by the The Minster event will run from Dewsbury Townscape Heritage 10 am to noon; after a lunch Initiative (THI) Starting at break, there will be a group walk Dewsbury Town Hall, featuring to the mosque for a 1 pm start. stained glass windows, the

MINSTER Members Room and Old Court Room, the walk will continue through the town centre taking in key buildings of the THI MOSQUE (including John Greenwood’s, below). It will finish with a limited tour of Pioneer House – the former Co-op building now being transformed for use by Kirklees College – featuring the old Board Room and Ball Room. Add your own event next year? See page 2 for details

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10 NEW EVENT Thornhill Parish John Greenwood Church Open Events in Holme Valley Clothing & Jewellery Church Lane, Thornhill, WF12 0JZ 3 Church St, Dewsbury, & Meltham WF13 1JJ NEW EVENT Carlile Institute 54 Huddersfield Rd, Meltham, Holmfirth, HD9 4AG

FRI 13TH TALK 7 PM SUN 15TH 10.30 AM - 11.30 AM, 2.30 PM- 4 PM

SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM WED 18TH 10.30 AM – 2 PM WED 18TH 10 AM – 4 PM SUN 22ND 10.30 AM – 11.30 AM, 2.30 PM - 4PM SAT 21ST 10 AM – 4 PM SAT 14TH 12 NOON – 4 PM TALK 7.30 PM BOOKING FOR TOURS This gem of a building is Grade ESSENTIAL VIA VIP 1 listed and set in the heart of the Thornhill Conservation An opportunity to view our Behind Dewsbury’s oldest area. Internally renewed for new Meltham Heritage Banners shop, trading continuously since 21st century use, but still an and our archive of history and 1860, is the town’s newest unspoilt mixture of medieval and photograph albums. Evening talk and smallest local history Victorian splendour. The historic by Dr Stephen Caunce, ‘You museum, accessible to four home church of the Savile family Always Remember Your Co-op persons at a time for 30-minute contains monuments and stained Number: The Amazing Rise of tours. It contains a range of glass dating back to the 15th the People’s Own Shops.’ shop memorabilia, artefacts, century - all recently conserved biographies and pictures of - and a splendid replica window those who lived and worked in the Savile chapel. Interactive here. The shop itself contains displays add to the visitor much original cabinetry from experience for all the family. 1860 and later fittings, whilst still Holmfirth Blue fully functioning with a master Talk on Fri Sept 13th by Dr Pat craftsman working jeweller. Cullum – ‘Medieval Churches, PlaqueWalk Thornhill in particular’. Meet the famous ‘Bolenium Bill’, Holmfirth Methodist Church, Jazz, R&B and Gospel concert resident in the shop since the School Street, Holmfirth, HD9 7EQ 1920s, and see what has changed (not free) on Sat 14th - see over his lifetime. The historic website for information shop is free to pop in any time www.thornhillparishchurch. but the ‘museum experience’ org.uk must be booked. www.john-greenwood.com

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Holme Valley pages supported by Holme Valley Civic Society 12 www.holmfirthhistory.org.uk BOOKING REQUIRED Lydgate Perhaps the oldest building in Holmfirth dating from around Book at Holmfirth Library/ Unitarian Chapel Tourist Office, 01484 414868 1595. In its long history it has 1 Lydgate View, Holmfirth Road, served as a jail (for which it was Join local historian David New Mill, HD9 7LF built), a fire station, a mortuary Cockman on a guided tour of and an ambulance station. the twelve Blue Plaques in and around Holmfirth town centre. Learn more than the basic Wooldale Quaker information on the plaques Meeting House themselves and gain an insight into the history of this small Pell Lane, Wooldale, HD9 1QL Yorkshire town.

FRI 20TH 10 AM – 4 PM NEW EVENT SAT 21ST 10 AM – 4 PM PEOPLE POWER EVENT Honley Old chapel with original 17th & 18th century features, Cemetery Tour including original pulpit and box Green Cliff, Honley, Holmfirth pews. Walls lined with memorial HD9 6JN plaques, which give information about family and local history. Interesting graveyard. Family FRI 20TH 11 AM – 4 PM history archives available SAT 21ST 11 AM – 4 PM for study. SUN 22ND 1 PM – 4 PM www.ukunitarians.org.uk/lydgate Primarily a building of 1783, grade II listed, but incorporating late 17th century parts and partially remodelled in about Th’Owd Towser 1900. It includes a meeting room, gallery, and elders’ bench. SAT 14TH TOUR 10.30 AM Daisy Lane, Holmfirth, HD9 1HS Quakerism came to the Holme Valley in its infancy in the mid Guided walk around Honley 17th century. The Jackson family cemetery by historian Peter [Meal Hill, Jackson Bridge, Totties Marshall of Honley Civic Society. Hall, Wooldale Hall] were largely Peter will lead visitors around responsible for establishing the the cemetery, pointing out Meeting House. Also to be seen graves of particular interest, is the burial ground, an ancient identifying the person(s) sundial and parish boundary wall. interred there, and explaining www.wooldalequakers.org.uk their contribution to the village and/or public life.

SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM SUN 15TH 10 AM - 4 PM

Holme Valley pages supported by Holme Valley Civic Society 12 www.holmfirthhistory.org.uk 13 NEW EVENT NEW EVENT Open Events PEOPLE POWER EVENT PEOPLE POWER EVENT in Huddersfield Greenhead College Greenhead Park: - Mindfulness Thomas Denham’s Dugdale Bros & Co Meditation – vision 5 Northumberland St, HD1 1RL Greenhead College, Greenhead Greenhead Park, Trinity Street, Road, Huddersfield, HD1 4ES Huddersfield, HD1 4DN

BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP THUR 19TH 5 PM – 6.30 PM BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA COLLEGE Booking: Julie Polzin, 01484 422032, [email protected]. Booking closes: 10 September, 12noon How mindfulness and meditation can help your own mental health and well-being. A presentation and workshop by 17-year-old Emily Brierley, National Youth Ambassador for the Mindfulness in Schools project and 2nd- year student at Greenhead College, who experienced the Manchester Arena terrorist attack. The College dates from SUN 22ND TOURS 9.30 AM, 1909 (as the High School SUN 22ND WALK 2.30 PM 11 AM, 12.30 PM, 2 PM for Girls), on the site where BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP Greenhead Hall stood from Huddersfield’s premier public Tudor times. park opened in 1884 but For over 120 years, Dugdale Alderman Thomas Denham Bros & Co has been supplying had come up with his vision premium grade cloths and for the Park in 1869. On the trimmings to the finest clothiers 150th anniversary of his letter and tailors in the UK and to the Huddersfield Examiner, beyond. Step through the doors ‘Thomas’ returns to escort of the town’s last independent visitors round the park and spell cloth merchant and discover out his plans in person. Park its illustrious history on an historian David Griffiths will be exclusive tour of the cutting on hand to explain how far they rooms and cloth stores. The are reflected in the Park as it firm has occupied The Towers, is today. designed by W H Crossland and built in 1875 as a Post Office, www.greenhead.ac.uk www.friendsofgreenheadpark. since 1906. org.uk www.dugdalebros.com

This page supported by Huddersfield Local History Society 14 www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk NEW EVENT owners, Ramsay Clay, are hosting SUN 15TH 11 AM - 4 PM PEOPLE POWER EVENT a talk about its history by local NORMAL FREE OPENING: historian of the working class MON – THUR, 10AM - 5 PM, Hall of Science Alan Brooke. Afterwards, pie ‘n FRI 10 AM - 1 PM peas and other refreshments will 9 Bath St, Huddersfield, HD1 5BQ Celebrate the first anniversary be available to buy at the nearby of the opening of The Holocaust and newly listed Sportsman Inn. Exhibition and Learning Centre. Explore the exhibition, find out www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk more about the work we do at the Centre and enjoy a drink NEW EVENT in our pop-up cafe. On the Holocaust Exhibition 15th we will also be holding a ticketed event (not free) with & Learning Centre Barbara Winton, daughter of Sir WED 18TH TALK 7 PM Nicholas Winton who organised (DOORS OPEN 6.30 PM) Schwann Building, University of Huddersfield, HD1 3DH a Kindertransport that rescued BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP 669 Czech Jewish children from the Nazis, accompanied by one Built in 1839 by followers of of those he rescued. To book the early socialist Robert Owen tickets for this event, visit: as a home for meetings and educational events, it was used www.holocaustlearning.org.uk/ by local Chartists until, with events the collapse of working class political activity, it was sold in the late 1840s. The present

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@HudUniPress www.hudunipress.wordpress.com 14 Holy Trinity Church PEOPLE POWER EVENT SUN 22ND 2.30 PM BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP Trinity Street, Huddersfield, Huddersfield’s HD1 4DT Radical Heritage From the 1790s to the present day there hasn’t been a radical, Harold Wilson Statue, social or political movement St George’s Square, in Britain which has not been Huddersfield, HD1 1JB reflected in Huddersfield. Cyril Pearce follows the steps of those involved in Huddersfield’s most turbulent moments, exploring the buildings and places associated with events such as the campaign for factory reform, Luddites, Chartism and FRI 20TH 7 PM – 9 PM TOWER TOURS the emergence of socialist and 7.15 PM & 8.15 PM co-operative movements. The walk ends outside the Hall of SAT 21ST 10.30 AM – 5 PM TOWER TOURS HOURLY Science (Ramsay Clay) on Bath 11 AM - 4 PM Street (see p.15).

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BOOKING ESSENTIAL FOR TOURS AND WORKSHOP Huddersfield Library Huddersfield Booking: www.holytrinity - Behind the Scenes Town Hall huddersfield.com/heritage- Princess Alexandra Walk, Corporation Street, open-weekend-2019 Huddersfield, HD1 2SU Huddersfield, HD1 2TU Holy Trinity celebrates its 200th THUR 19TH TOURS SAT 14TH TOURS 9.30 AM, birthday in 2019 and will be 11 AM, 3 PM 11 AM, 1.30 PM, 2.45 PM open to view with displays and BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP refreshments available. It is a BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP fine example of late-Georgian The Town Hall dates from This Grade II listed building, Gothic architecture, with 1875-81. Join us for an extensive designed by E.H. Ashburner, high-quality early 20th century and interesting tour and see opened in 1940. The Art Gallery wood carvings. The interior was parts of the building that are on the top floor of the building sympathetically modernised in not generally accessible to the hosts Perspectives: Aspects of 1995 to meet present-day needs public. Highlights of the tour the Kirklees Collection, with while preserving many of its will include the Concert Hall major works from the collection historical features. Please book and Father Willis organ, the together with a programme of for guided trips up the church Old Court Room and the changing exhibitions. We will tower (new for this year!) and basement cell. for the ‘Come & Sing’ workshop. be providing 90 minute tours of the Library, including West

Yorkshire Archives and areas (and material) normally closed to the public.

This page supported by Huddersfield Local History Society 16 www.huddersfieldhistory.org.uk PEOPLE POWER EVENT story tells how the Council’s decision in the 1970s to close King James’s School the school was successfully fought by past and present St. Helen’s Gate, Almondbury, students and staff. HD4 6SG www.kingjames.org.uk

Roebuck Memorial Homes 509 Wakefield Road, Dalton, Huddersfield, HD5 9XL as a memorial to his wife and SAT 21ST 10 AM – 2 PM SAT 14TH 10.30 AM – 1 PM son. Designed by local architect Opened in 1547 it was granted Clifford Hickson, with references a charter by King James in 1608 Grade 2 Listed site comprising to Edwin Lutyens, the homes are to become a Grammar School. eight almshouses/cottages, of modest scale but the whole The oldest parts date to around linked to a central pavilion site has grandeur resulting from 1750. It is hoped to have the (small chapel), and fronted the classical detailing. Royal Charter on view in the by terraced Italianate-style www.roebuckhomestrust.co.uk Old Dining Hall, the oldest gardens, constructed 1932. classroom still in use dating back Commissioned by local furniture to 1848. Our ‘People Power’ manufacturer Harry Roebuck

16 St John’s Church, St Joseph’s Birkby Catholic Church St John the Evangelist Church, Somerset Road, Aspley, St John’s Road, Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD5 9AU HD1 5EA

FRI 13TH 10.30 AM – 3 PM SAT 14TH 10 AM – 1.30 PM CRAFT SESSION THUR 19TH 10 AM – 2.30 PM FRI 20TH 10.30 AM – 1.30 PM SUN 22ND 2 PM – 5 PM (EVENSONG 4PM) SUN 15TH 1 PM - 4 PM Take part in a craft session on Have a look round our Grade Thursday 19th and see how Originally a 1915 Anglican II* listed building, designed by ‘Aspire’ is growing throughout church designed by Oswald noted Victorian architect William Huddersfield. Attend the closing White, it was bought by Butterfield. See photographs of Choral Evensong, with singing St Joseph’s Parish in 1953, restoration work done. Look by Huddersfield Friends of replacing the original Church on at our beautiful stained glass Church Music. Commercial Street. The interior windows and many World has an elaborate roof, beautiful War memorial items; hear our www.stjohnsbirkby.org.uk stained glass windows and a wonderful pipe organ. side chapel dedicated to ‘Our Lady’. In 1954 the organ was

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[email protected] 01484 472375 the first pipeless instrument of The building is free to explore, NEW EVENT its kind installed in a local church. but an escorted tour and history Huddersfield Catholic History talk of about 1 hour needs Surprising Group will be sharing their history to be prebooked (see above). Lockwood of the formation of the Parish huddersfieldparishchurch.org and displaying their collection of Water St car park, Huddersfield, photographs of St Joseph’s and HD4 6EJ other Huddersfield parishes.

St Thomas’s Church St Peter’s Manchester Road, Huddersfield, Parish Church HD1 3HU Byram St, Huddersfield, HD1 1BU

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‘From a Beautiful Spa Village to an Industrial Hub’: Join Dave Pattern and Ian Stevenson on a new circular Discover Huddersfield walk covering about 1.5 miles. See some of the early 19th century SUN 15TH 8 AM - 4 PM buildings which were to (HOSTED 10 AM - 2 PM) be found in the spa village SUN 22ND 8 AM – 4 PM of Lockwood, attracting (HOSTED 10 AM – 2 PM) visitors from all over the MON 16TH 10 AM – 2 PM country, and later ones which TUES 17TH 10 AM – 2 PM helped to establish Lockwood WED 18TH 10 AM – 2 PM ALL 10 DAYS 9 AM – 7 PM as a lively hub of textile and engineering excellence during THUR 19TH 10 AM – 2 PM Built by famous Victorian the Industrial Revolution. FRI 20TH 10 AM – 2 PM architect Sir George Gilbert SAT 21ST 10 AM – 2 PM Scott for the Starkey family, one NEW EVENT BOOKING REQUIRED FOR of the largest local employers at TOURS (SEE BELOW) the time, whose mill once stood Tolson Memorial Bookings: opposite, the Grade II* Gothic Museum & Mikron Mrs Paula Yeadon, 01484 427964, Revival church was consecrated [email protected] in 1859 as a memorial to the Theatre family. New for this year - a Ravensknowle Park, Wakefield A Grade 2* Church building of heritage interpretation board Road, Huddersfield, HD5 8DJ 1836, designed by J P Pritchett telling the story of the Starkey and the third on the site. family and the church they built; SAT 14TH MUSEUM Interesting features including an five new leaflets; and a guide to 12 NOON – 5 PM Elizabethan font, an early 20th the stained glass windows. PLAY (SEE BELOW) 12 NOON century Baldacchino (by Ninian SUN 15TH MUSEUM Comper), a fine Conacher organ, 12 NOON – 5 PM several pieces of ‘Mouseman’ TOURS (SEE BELOW) 1 PM & oak carvings and recently 2.30 PM restored stained glass. Heritage continued ... information will be available.

This page supported by Huddersfield Civic Society www.civicsociety.org.uk 19 Amazing objects chart teacher, Kelsang Varahi, will Huddersfield’s history from be offering short meditation the Iron Age to the boom in sessions (no experience necessary!). the textile industry. See vintage meditateinhuddersfield.org vehicles as well as plant and marine fossils. Don’t miss our new photographic exhibition, ‘A Woman’s Work is Never Done’, exploring the working lives of late 19th and early 20th century women as they fought for Victoria Tower, equal opportunities and better conditions. Galleries include Castle Hill our World War I and Suffragist Hillside, Lumb Lane, exhibitions and the taxidermy Almondbury, HD4 6TA ‘half animals’. Park, playground. shop and cafe. ‘People Power’; the men and

PERFORMANCE women who have shaped the SAT 14TH 12 NOON history of Ravensknowle Park and Tolson Museum. Tours last Mikron Theatre perform All approximately 40 minutes and Hands on Deck: New WRNS are family friendly. recruits Ginger and Lily are www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums looking for wartime adventure. Lily wants to serve on dry land but Ginger is desperate to serve at sea and they find themselves in uncharted waters on a journey they’ll never forget. NEW EVENT Some seats in the garden but SAT 21ST 12 NOON – 4.30 PM bring your own if you can; Vajrapani Kadampa SUN 22ND 12 NOON – 4.30 PM refreshments beforehand and during the interval. Buddhist Centre Perched on Castle Hill, Victoria Tower was completed in www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums Wheathouse Terrace, Huddersfield, HD2 2UY 1899 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s SUN 15TH 12 NOON – 4.30 PM reign. The cornerstone of the TOURS 1 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM MEDITATION SESSIONS 12.30 PM, tower was laid on 25 June 1898. 1.30 PM, 2.30 PM, 3.30 PM The tower was renovated in 1960 when the top seven feet NEW EVENT This historic Grade II listed were removed, and now reaches PEOPLE POWER EVENT building is one of only two almost 997 feet above sea Tolson Memorial Baptist churches built in the level. The site contains diverse Arts & Crafts architectural style wildlife habitats and, working Museum (and was featured in the Victoria with Natural England, Castle Ravensknowle Park, Wakefield Wood drama ‘Housewife 49’). Hill is a designated Local Nature Road, Huddersfield, HD5 8DJ Full of original features, it is now Reserve. home to a Buddhist community communitydirectory.kirklees. SUN 15TH TOURS 1 PM, offering meditation classes. 2.30 PM gov.uk There will be guided tours and friendly faces on-hand to answer Join our volunteer guides for a fascinating tour focusing on any questions. Our resident

This page supported by Huddersfield Civic Society 20 www.civicsociety.org.uk 1889 for James Senior. Since Open Events 1948 it has been used as an outdoor centre for children,

in Kirkburton & first from Dewsbury and then Denby Dale NEW EVENT from Kirklees. The house and grounds will be open for people Cliffe House, to come and look round, the All Hallows’ Church, Shepley kiosk will be open for snacks Kirkburton and refreshments, and there are 40 Lane Head Rd, Shepley, extensive playground facilities. Shelley Lane, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, HD8 8DB HD8 0TE SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM An opportunity to learn more about the history of this Emmanuel Church, significant medieval building. Celebrate the centenary of the Shelley bells, take an historic village walk Huddersfield Road, Shelley, (1.5 hours), view displays by the Huddersfield, HD8 8LH Burton Environment Group and SAT 21ST 10.30 AM – 3.30 PM Burton Crafters. Stroll round the peaceful Green Flag award- SAT 21ST 10 AM – 2 PM A nature-inspired day full of fun winning churchyard. Absorb the and activities for all the family. history. Tea, coffee and delicious Cliffe House is a beautiful Talk and flying demonstration cake served all day. Grade II listed Victorian building from the Scissett Owl Sanctuary www.allhallowschurch.com in ten acres of land, built in 10.30 am, talk on the Peregrines

As well as our three free walks in this brochure, Discover Huddersfield runs regular guided walks from spring to autumn each year, and publishes a wide range of printed town trails on many subjects.

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www.discoverhuddersfield.com 20 of Wakefield Cathedral 2 pm. NEW EVENT Skelmanthorpe Visit the bell tower and try bell ringing. Nature-themed craft St James’s Church, Textile Heritage activities for children throughout Flockton Centre the day and an opportunity to sow seeds in our wildlife Barnsley Rd, Flockton, WF4 4DH 6 Queen Street, garden. HLF funded Graveyard Skelmanthorpe, HD8 9DU Mapping information for visitors. Refreshments am and pm, lunches 12.00 - 1.30. www.emmanuelchurchshelley. co.uk

High Flatts Quaker Meeting House Firth Lane, High Flatts, HD8 8XU THUR 19TH 12 NOON – 5 PM THUR 19TH 10 AM – 5 PM FRI 20TH 12 NOON – 5 PM FRI 20TH 10 AM – 5 PM SAT 21ST 10 AM – 4 PM SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM SAT 21ST 10 AM – 5 PM SUN 22ND 10 AM – 4 PM SUN 22ND 12.30 PM – 5 PM SUN 15TH 10 AM – 3 PM This small textile heritage centre Very early Quaker meeting To celebrate our 150th comprises a ‘one-up-one down’ house, c. 1653. Situated in a Anniversary in September we former weaver’s cottage. The hamlet which was, until recently, will have displays of archive downstairs family living-quarters exclusively Quaker owned. material from down the have been furnished as a West The building is built of local years. Please join us to see Riding weaver’s family home stone and can offer spectacular the exhibition as well as our of around 1900. Upstairs is an views of the rolling countryside. collection of late 19th and authentic working hand-loom, Guided tours of the area early 20th century stained glass along with fascinating displays available, featuring reflections windows, including those by and artefacts linked to our upon local historical agriculture Kempe, Morris, Burne-Jones and textile history. Guides will be and rural industry, along with a Fortescue-Brickdale, and painted present and there will be daily look at a 1932 typhoid epidemic pulpit by local pre-Raphaelite loom demonstrations (1 pm – 4 and the original village water John Spencer Stanhope. pm). Visits will last about an hour. supply driven by water power. Refreshments will be available Leaflets for local self guided throughout both days. www.highflattsquakers.org.uk walks available. All facilities at flocktonchurch.org nearby Community Centre fosthc.wixsite.com/ skeltexheritage

22 www.heritageopendays.org.uk Open Events Lindley Clock Tower St Stephen’s 6 Lidget St, Huddersfield, HD3 3JB Church, Lindley in Lindley SAT 14TH 10 AM – 2 PM Lidget Street, Lindley, HD3 3JB Briarcourt Lindley Clock Tower was erected in 1902 by local 28 Occupation Road, Lindley, industrialist James Nield Sykes HD3 3EE and designed in the Art Nouveau style by Manchester-based 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

Lindley Methodist Church 45 East St, Huddersfield, HD3 3ND SAT 14TH 10 AM – 2.45 PM HOUSE TOURS 10 AM, 11 AM, 12 NOON, 2 PM

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Fine Jacobean style Arts and Crafts house designed by Manchester architect Edgar Wood in 1895. As well as house tours, some areas of the grounds SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM will be open to the public. Most SAT 14TH 10 AM – 1 PM SUN 15TH 1 PM – 4 PM of the original panelling, fitted St Stephen’s is a Grade II listed furniture, plasterwork, stained An opportunity to have a short building designed by renowned glass and metalwork survives. A guided tour of the church or local architect John Oates, painted frieze by F W Jackson to look round independently. and built in 1829 by Joseph has been conserved and re- The church building celebrated Kaye, known as the ‘Builder instated, and there is a sideboard its 150th birthday in 2018 and of Huddersfield’. Discover designed by Wood. Visit Clem’s was designed by local architect the heritage of St Stephen’s Garden, a social enterprise run George Moorhouse. Notable - including its Mouseman of by volunteers, with eco-friendly features include the chancel and Kilburn furnishings - and the cut flowers on sale. the altar table, designed by Edgar Wood, and interesting Victorian community it serves. stained glass windows. www.facebook.com/ www.lindleymethodist.org ststephenslindley/

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This page supported by Clem’s Garden, Lindley 22 www.clemsgarden.co.uk 23 NEW EVENT NEW EVENT Open Events Lower Hopton Mirfield in Mirfield United Reformed Masonic Lodge 14 King St, Mirfield, WF14 8AW NEW EVENT Church The Engine Room’s Chapel Court, Calder Rd, C19 Piggery Mirfield, WF14 8NP York Mills, York Rd, Mirfield, WF14 9RR

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Graham Shuttleworth, 07455 355573, graham.shuttleworth@ talktalk.net, website (below) or write to address above. A unique opportunity to have a look around Mirfield Masonic TUES 17TH 10 AM – 3 PM Lodge, formed in 1866 and THUR 19TH 10 AM – 3 PM steeped in history. You will be able to see the temple, the past The former 19th century masters’ room with their roll piggery – once owned by the of honour and ask questions. employer of Anne Brontë – was Find out what freemasonry is all purchased by strategic brand SAT 21ST 10 AM – 4 PM about and the charitable causes consultancy The Engine Room SUN 22ND 10 AM – 4 PM we support and raise money for in January 2017. What was once all around the world. a dark, mouldy and disused Visit a Grade 2* Chapel built mirfield1102.org property is now a bright, open- in 1829 (with a story going plan workshop environment back to 1662). Sadly it closed open to local businesses. As in 2007 and fell into disrepair, many on-site materials as ending up as a registered possible have been salvaged, building at risk. The present St Mary’s Community eg scaffold boards, the old mill owners, Stephen & Wendy Heritage Site door and original wooden are now refurbishing it as a flooring covers, while the home and working church. 38 Church Lane, Mirfield, WF14 9HX mill’s original industrial hoist is Lots of history to see, and the also a key feature. Walk and talk memorial gardens containing tours available. Commonwealth war graves. engineroomdesign.com As the building is under reconstruction we cannot allow anyone under the age of 18 to enter.

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24 www.heritageopendays.org.uk SAT 14TH 10 AM – 3 PM Explore the past lives of one of about the history of the ORGAN RECITAL 3PM Mirfield’s local buildings. Built as Church, and the links with the SUN 22ND 11 AM – 4 PM the town hall before becoming a Taylor family of Red House and picture house, then dance halls Charlotte Bronte. St Mary’s Grade II* listed and clubs, 106 Huddersfield www.moravian.org.uk church. Tours to the top of Road is now a church, charity church tower and bell ringing shop, community centre and room. Archaeological pottery coffee shop. See photos of finds on show. Family History what it looked like in the past, Day on 14th (10 – 2.30) with read memories of local people Huddersfield & District Family and find out what happens NEW EVENT History Society – records here today. Film screenings will available to consult. Nature trail recreate what it was like when PEOPLE POWER EVENT walks around the nine acres the building was a picture house. Luddites at of the heritage site/graveyard, taking in the remains of Castle Cleckheaton Library Hall Hill, a medieval motte and Whitcliffe Road, Cleckheaton,

bailey castle. Heritage Trail Walks BD19 3DX in the local area (approx 1.5 miles). www.friendsofstmarysmirfield.org.uk Open Events www.hdfhs.org.uk in Spen Valley

Gomersal Moravian Church NEW EVENT Quarry Road, Gomersal, BD19 4JB Salvation Army SAT 21ST 10.30 AM – 2.30 PM 106 Huddersfield Rd, Mirfield, Cleckheaton is close to the WF14 8AF scene of violent Luddite uprisings in 1812. The Friends of Cleckheaton Library (Art Deco, grade II listed) offer a display about the Luddites in Spen Valley and welcome Georgina Hutchison, author of Under the Canopy of Heaven, a novel

SUN 15TH 1 PM – 4 PM about Luddite George Mellor. After a short talk at 11am, she FRI 20TH 9.30 AM – 3 PM Grade II listed Church, built in will answer questions and sign FILM SHOWS AT 10 AM – 11.45 AM 1751 and altered in the 1860s. books. Re-enactor Alan Brooke 1.30 PM – 3.15 PM See the special display about from ‘Fraid Not will explain what Moravian traditions. See the it was like to be a Luddite. SAT 21ST 9.30 AM – 3 PM ‘Gomersal and the Great War’ SUN 22ND 9.30 AM – 3 PM friendscleckheatonlibrary. display, with information about wordpress.com BOOKING ADVISED the men from Gomersal who FOR FILM SCREENINGS died in the First World War, and

Susan Chisholm, 01942 491641 also what life was life for or [email protected] those back home. See displays

24 www.heritageopendays.org.uk 25 Oakwell Hall St John’s Church, between Heckmondwike and Cleckheaton. We’ll be Nova Lane, Birstall, Batley, Cleckheaton explaining the history behind WF17 9LG Church Street, Cleckheaton, the phrase “to come a cropper” BD19 3RN and exploring how, in 1812, mechanisation caused desperate croppers to become Luddites and take radical action here. www.spenvalleycivicsociety. org.uk

Whitechapel Church Whitechapel Road, Cleckheaton, BD19 6HR FRI 20TH 10 AM – 3 PM SAT 21ST 9 AM – 5 PM

St John’s Church has been a place of worship since 1832. Rebuilt in the Gothic style in 1886, it has beautiful stained SAT 14TH 12 NOON – 4 PM glass windows on all sides. The SUN 15TH 12 NOON – 4 PM church has a war memorial for CRAFT AFTERNOON the 1914-18 World War and WED 18TH 12 NOON – 4 PM four war graves. The Belfry has a set of eight bells, dedicated in This beautiful Grade I Listed June 1947 as a thanksgiving for Elizabethan manor house, victory in WWII. SAT 14TH 10 AM – 4 PM displayed as a family home of SUN 15TH 2 PM - 4.30 PM the 1690s, offers a rare insight WED 18TH 2 PM - 4.30 PM into a post-English Civil War SAT 21ST 10 AM – 4 PM household. See period rooms SUN 22ND 2 PM – 4.30 PM surprisingly unchanged in over 400 years. Hear the ghost story NEW EVENT Whitechapel Church has a and discover Charlotte Brontë’s PEOPLE POWER EVENT Norman font, an Ellacombe inspiration for her 1849 novel system of bells, which you can Shirley. Dress as a Roundhead Spen Valley try, the only Bronte grave in or Cavalier and share your Luddite Walk Kirklees, three WW1 graves and #OakwellSelfie. Explore 100 stained glass window memorials. acres of period gardens and Cartwright St, Cleckheaton, The present church was built in country park, with trails, BD19 5LY 1821, but the font is dated no mountain bike track, playground SUN 22ND 1 PM later than 1120 - its carvings and picnic areas. On Wednesday, A 5 mile circular walk suitable include Celtic fertility figures come and see traditional crafts for any reasonably fit person - described by experts as lewd. being demonstrated. there are stiles and slopes to Rose Ann Heslip, aged 95, a negotiate and off-road paths that niece of Patrick Bronte, was may be muddy and uneven. Stout buried here in 1915. footwear is recommended. Bring water and a snack. The walk starts and finishes at Rawfolds,

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