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Celebration Day Commemorative Guide Welcome to theWelcome to the Welcome to the CELEBRATION DAY ACTIVITIES 10:30 ONWARDS • Medieval Market on Kirkgate • Classic cars on Westgate Celebration Day • Historical re-enactments on the Riverside COMMEMORATIVE GUIDE • Photographic exhibition “Tadcaster Together” at the Coach & Horses • Film Premiere of “BridgeBuilding” at St Marys Church At 5pm on tuesday 29th DecemberCelebration 2015, after days of Day Celebration (1.15 onwards)Day high water levels and flooding from the river Wharfe,COMMEMORATIVE the roadbridge in GUIDE COMMEMORATIVE GUIDE Tadcaster partially collapsed, leaving the town split in two. The months THE BLESSING OF THE BRIDGE AT 12 NOON since the collapse have been the most challenging in our town’s recent At the Bridge, the Archbishop of York, the Reverend Dr John Sentamu, history. For everyone who lives, works and visits Tadcaster, the town will lead a blessing of the bridge with Churches Together in Tadcaster All are very welcome! has been divided for far too long. February 2017 has seemed a long time coming, especially as the actual date of the opening has been, it AS DUSK FALLS… seems rather like the river, constantly moving! So, at last the bridge is • Lantern parade across the bridge at 5.45pm open and here is our day to celebrate that! • Firework spectacular at the riverside at 7pm We hope that you will find there is something for everyone in the Thanks to the wonderful workers of Faceless Arts for helping us make so many amazing Lanterns COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE DAY… for our parade! programme we have put together. We wanted this to be a day for • A taste of Tadcaster people to discover the town again, to reflect our history and heritage • Window dressing and for the town to showcase what is best about it. • Lantern making • Street entertainers Today is a day to celebrate and give thanks to everyone who has • Skatepark contributed to the re-building of not only the bridge but of our • Kids activities community also: from the volunteers who came and helped in the clear up, to the engineers and bridge builders, to the public servants at Town, District and County councils and our Member of Parliament, to those who are building our resilience should the waters of the Wharfe rise again, and to all the unsung heroes – all have contributed to making Tadcaster a stronger community. Poems by Francesca, aged 10 and Ella, aged 9, Riverside Community Primary School. TADCASTER THROUGHWelcome THE toAGES the HISTORY OF THE BRIDGEWelcome to the ROMANS, MARKETS, BATTLES & BREWERIES riginally paved, the first stone bridge on this site was built in Othe early 1200s using stone from Tadcaster Castle. The current he ancient market town of Tadcaster has a long and chequered The older buildings of the Tower Brewery were erected when bridge dates from around 1700, and is the main route connecting the Thistory. Originally named Calcaria (place of limestone) by the Tadcaster Tower Brewery was founded in 1882 by a small group two sides of the town. Romans, it was initially a small settlement, serving as a resting place of ‘honourable’s’ (younger sons of baronets), hence the brewery for travellers and a staging post on the London to York road. became known locally as Snobs Brewery. The building site was Roman Emperors, Viking Warriors and English Sovereigns have all bought from the North Eastern Railway Company, when Tadcaster crossed the river here at Tadcaster. The market in the town was initiated when Henry de Percy obtained was planned to be linked with the main railways in the North East. In medieval times the River Wharfe was a boundary between the old a Charter from King Henry III in 1270, and was originally held at the Sadly this project never came to fruition. junction of Kirkgate and Bridge Street – MarketCelebration Place. Day West Riding and the district of Ainsty. ImportantCelebration visitors to York were Day COMMEMORATIVEJohn SmithsGUIDE has gone on to become the biggest Brewery in the town met at the bridge with great ceremony and the Sheriff COMMEMORATIVElord Mayor and GUIDE The Battle of Tadcaster (7th December 1642), really little more than and is now owned by Heineken. gentry of York, and then escorted onwards to the City of York. a skirmish, was fought around the bridge in the Civil War. The bridge has been widened several times and strengthened to The town contains many historical and architectural treasures such as the withstand floodwater, however after flooding on Boxing Day 2015, 12th century St Mary’s Church with its beautiful East window; the 13th the bridge partially collapsed on the evening of 29th December. This century motte and ditch of the Norman Castle, the Ark, originally built in caused the gas main to fracture and prompted the evacuation of the late 15th century and now the Tadcaster Town Council Offices, and hundreds of residents. many buildings from the Georgian and other eras. Soon after, work began to rebuild the bridge at a cost of over £3m. Limestone has been quarried in the Tadcaster area for hundreds of As part of this process the bridge was also widened, by means of years and used in many famous buildings, including a Roman Fort in a cantelever on the upstream side. The bridge finally re-opened in York and York Minster. February 2017. The quality of the local water led to Tadcaster becoming a famous brewery town. There are currently three breweries in Tadcaster, The Tower Brewery, (Molson Coors), John Smiths (Heineken), and Samuel Smith Old Brewery, which is the oldest brewery in Yorkshire. The latter is renowned for its historic brewing practices and organic beers: in fact the draft horses still deliver the beer and when they are not working live in stables behind the Angel and White Horse in the centre of the town. Flooding at Christmastime, 2015 The bridge partially collapsed Works to rebuild the bridge Pic courtesy David Rowe Pic courtesy Giles Rocholl KEY TO ACTIVITIES Welcome to the K R MAIN EVENTS O Y O T 11 9 1 BLESSING AT THE BRIDGE 10 LANTERN MAKING TIME: 12.15. With Archbishop John Sentamu TIME: 10-3pm. Come and make a lantern to take to the 16 MILL LANE parade and keep. 16 2 CLASSIC CARS AT ST MARY’S GATES T Celebration E E R 11 T TIME: 10am – 4pm. There will be 10 cars on display, one from each LANTERN PARADE S L IA C 12 R decade starting in 1907. TIME: 5.45pm approx. A sunset parade over the bridge and 4 E 1 M M O 8 C into town. 3 MEDIEVAL MARKET Celebration Day 13 TIME: 10am – 4pm. Stalls and entertainment COMMEMORATIVE12 FIREWORK GUIDE SPECTACULAR 2 15 14 19 TIME: 7pm. Marking The End Of The Celebrations. 4 WESTFIELD CRESCENT 17 FILM SCREENING T E E R TIME: 1.15pm, 2.15pm and 3.15pm. The rebuilding of the bridge. WESTGATE T S E G ID COMMUNITY EVENTS R 3 B 18 10 KIRKGATE 5 SKATE PARK AND GAME ZONE C H A 13 PE TIME: 10am – 4pm. At Manor Farm Youth Centre. MINSTER FM L ST RE 7 STATION ROAD ET ADDITIONAL PARKING 6 KIDS ACTIVITIES 14 “A TASTE OF TADCASTER” AT COORS 20 At pubs, cafes and restaurants throughout the town HIGH STREET TIME: 10am – 4pm. Interactive workshops ST JOSEPH’S STREET 7 WINDOW SPOTTING 15 WALLED GARDEN OPEN DAY AT BROMETS TIME: All day. Spot the rogue item in shop windows WETHERBY ROAD 5 16 6 OPEN DAY AT POWERPLUS AUTOS TO BOSTON 8 HISTORICAL RE-ENACTMENTS SPA2 17 OPEN DAY AT THE ARK TIME: 10am – 4pm. A medieval-style camp on the riverbank to explore and discover the history of Tadcaster. Find out about the 18 OPEN DAY AT THE SHIRE HORSE STABLES battle of the banks and how Tadcaster was involved in the famous Battle of Towton. 19 OPEN DAY AT SIMPLY A PARTY 9 PHOTGRAPHIC EXHIBITION 20 OPEN DAY AT CLAYFEVER LEEDS ROAD TIME: All weekend. “Tadcaster Together”. An exhibition of photos of A162 – TO SHERBURN IN ELMET the flood and portraits of those who helped in the town. 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