Heritage Open Days in Huddersfield 8-11 September 2016 29 FREE EVENTS
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Heritage Open Days in Huddersfield 8-11 September 2016 29 FREE EVENTS discoverhuddersfield.com DiscoverHuddersfield @discover_hudds At-a-glance guide to all Huddersfield events Listings accurate at time of going to press. Please visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for updated information. TITLE BOOKING THU 8TH FRI 9TH SAT 10TH SUN 11TH Walks: 12.45pm, Walks: 11am, Booking at VIP advised, About Heritage Open Days 1pm, 2pm & 11.30am 12 noon, Beaumont Park Guided Walks see back page 2.30pm 12.30pm & 1pm Booking at VIP essential, Tours at 10am, Briarcourt Heritage Open Days is England’s biggest festival of history and culture, involving over 40,000 see back page 11am, 1pm & 2pm Booking at VIP advised volunteers. Every year, over four days in September, thousands of sites across the country invite 1pm – 5pm 1pm – 5pm Bullecourt Museum for tours, see back page 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. Ghost Trails of Diaspora No Lecture 2pm This year’s Huddersfield programme has been co-ordinated by Discover Huddersfield (DH), which Greenhead Park No Walk 6pm has prepared this brochure. The range of sites and events offered here is, we believe, the most history walk Greenhead Park Model extensive and varied HOD programme the town has offered to date, with old favourites alongside No 11am-3pm Boating Display some exciting new entries. We are hugely grateful to the site organisers and volunteers for all the work they do. Guru Nanak Gurdwara No 10am – 1pm Booking advised for 10am – 4pm We are also grateful to our sponsors, who have made this brochure possible. They are Kirklees Holy Trinity Church tours. See entry Council (Museums & Galleries), Northern Rail, The Media Centre, the University of Huddersfield (Heritage Quay) and a private donor. Huddersfield Grammar School No 9.30am – 3.30pm Tours, Booking at VIP essential, Tours, 2pm Heritage Open Days operates as part of the National Trust with funding from players of People’s 12noon & Huddersfield Leisure Centre see back page & 6pm Postcode Lottery. Established in 1994, it is England’s contribution to the European Heritage Days, 4pm which is held annually in September in 50 signatory states to the European Cultural Convention. Huddersfield Library Booking at VIP essential, Tours, 11am Every effort has been made to ensure that details in this brochure are correct at time of going to & Art Gallery see back page & 3pm Huddersfield Station press, but for updated information please check No 10am – 4pm www.heritageopendays.org.uk Water Tower Huddersfield Town No Walk 2.30 pm Centre Lion Hunt Booking essential. ’ Tour 1.50pm John Smith s Stadium See entry Booking essential. Tour 3pm Lawrence Batley Theatre Tour See entry 11am – 3pm with Lockwood Baptist Church No tours 12noon & Discover Huddersfield,www.discoverhuddersfield.com , is a community-led partnership 2pm offering new ways to experience the town’s buildings, businesses and social history. We offer a Ramsden Heritage Trail No Walk 10.30am wide range of printed town trails and a programme of guided walks. The Heritage Open Days Royds Hall programme has been developed for DH by Huddersfield Civic Society, Huddersfield Local No 10am – 3.30pm Community School History Society, Kirklees Libraries and Museums, Heritage Quay and the Huddersfield Society of ’ St Mark s Church, No 10am – 12.30pm Architects, supported by a student intern from the University History Dept. Longwood ’ Booking advised for 10am – 4pm (walk St Stephen s Church, 1.30pm – 4.30pm Lindley walk. See entry. at 10.30 am) ’ St Thomas s Church, No 9am – 7pm 9am – 7pm 9am – 7pm 9am – 7pm Key Manchester Road Walk & Scavenger’s Hunt No activity 5pm – 7pm Tolson Memorial No 11am – 4pm Parking Disabled parking Accessible toilets Assistance dogs welcome Museum & bike show University of Huddersfield No Walk 10.30am Refreshments Hearing loop Children’s/family activities available Campus Trail Victoria Tower, Castle Hill No 12noon – 4.30pm 12noon – 4.30pm Partial wheelchair access Full wheelchair access Pushchair/pram friendly Walk 12noon – No Walking Over Mines 2pm Baby changing/Breast feeding area NEW EVENT New event for 2016 Enjoy a visit to... • Do something new to explore Be a tourist in your own town • Free Open events in ...Kirklees Museums and Galleries Huddersfield A-Z Web: kirklees.gov.uk/museums Kirklees Museums & Galleries @KirkleesMuseums Walk 7. 12noon – Poetry Trail Walk new perspectives 1 ½ to 2 hours around Park and Railway Trail Walk 8. 12.30pm – Beaumont Park History Trail 1 hour around main Park area Walk 9. 1pm – Beaumont Park History Trail 2 hours around Park and Railway Lindley Band play at the bandstand between 1pm and 3.30pm on Sunday. Briarcourt NEW EVENT evoke explore 28 Occupation Road, Lindley HD3 3EE SAT 10TH Tours at 10am, BOOKING 11am, 1pm & 2pm NEW EVENT ESSENTIAL Beaumont Park VIA VIP SEE BACK PAGE Beaumont Park Road HD4 7AY SAT 10TH 12.45pm – 4pm BOOKING Built as a wedding present for Herbert Higginson SUN 11TH 11am – 4pm VIA VIP Sykes and his bride Annie Eliza Thompson in SEE BACK PAGE 1895, Briarcourt was the first of a number of local commissions for Manchester architect, Edgar Wood, discover who also designed nearby Lindley Clock Tower. In 2014, after more than 60 years of A magnificent park with ornate features, cascades, institutional use, Briarcourt became a private grottos, steep cliffs and picturesque woodland family home again and is in the process of being walks for all the family. Friends of Beaumont Park renovated. The tours of the house provide an will be leading tours around the park. opportunity to view the progress and discoveries that have been made over the last 18 months. Saturday 10th September Visitors can also watch stained glass Walk 1. 12.45pm – Beaumont Park Railway Trail artists working on the new front door lights they 1 ½ hours on the Railway Trail have designed. Walk 2. 1pm – Poetry Trail 1 ½ to 2 hours around Park and Railway Trail Walk 3. 2pm – Beaumont Park History Trail remember inspire 2 hours around Park and Railway Trail Walk 4. 2.30pm – Beaumont Park History Trail Bagshaw Museum • Dewsbury Museum • Huddersfield Art Gallery 1 hour around main Park area – Easy walking Sunday 11th September Tolson Museum • Oakwell Hall & Country Park • Red House Walk 5. 11am – Beaumont Park History Trail 2 hours around Park and Railway Trail Walk 6. 11.30am – Beaumont Park Railway Trail 1 ½ hours on the Railway Trail Photo credit: www.andymarshall.co Photo credit: Madeleine Longtin Photo credit: Treasure your treasures! • What’s on your doorstep? • ‘Huddersfield is a revelation’ on your doorstep? • ‘Huddersfield is a • What’s your treasures! Treasure Ghost Trails NEW EVENT of Diaspora 2019 Heritage Quay, The Schwann Building, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate Proud to be HD1 3DH SAT 10TH 2pm – 3pm NO 37% BOOKING Increase in peak capacity Northern Bullecourt NEW EVENT Museum 2019 The Old Drill Hall, Scar Lane HD3 4PT In this lecture Phil Wood will describe the SAT 10TH 1pm – 5pm Launch of Northern BOOKING remarkable journeys and the strange and surprising SUN 11TH 1pm –5pm Connect - 12 enhanced 2016 VIA VIP links between migrant groups he uncovered SEE BACK PAGE walking with one foot in Huddersfield and one routes linking major somewhere else. cities of the North This event is also part of ‘The 4th World Over Congress of Psychogeography’. Find out more at £1bn www.heritagequay.org/events/psychogeography Northern rail franchise With a wide range of historical military artefacts dating from Waterloo to the Falklands War the FREE begins, investing over £1bn Bullecourt Museum is a unique experience. From 2018 to transform 1911 the building was a drill hall and territorial Greenhead Park rail travel in the North barracks up until the 1960s. It was refurbished by the curator and owner who opened the History Walk Free on-board WiFi military museum in 2002 to share their fascinating 2016 available to collection and knowledge with the public. Features Greenhead Park, Trinity Street HD1 4DN all passengers on new artefacts from the Crimean War, WWI, the rise of the Nazis, WWII and several other conflicts. FRI 9TH 6pm or refurbished trains 2016 Guided tours of the museum by the curator will NO 2018 take place once every hour from 1 to 4pm on BOOKING 2018 Train refurbishment Saturday and Sunday. Greenhead Park is a Grade II listed Victorian Colne Valley town park restored to its former glory thanks to a multi-million pound Heritage Lottery funded 2018 Museum project. Historic features include a bandstand, 2017 Italian Gardens and fountain, conservatory, and 2019 Cliffe Ash, Golcar HD7 4PY two war memorials. A guided walk (60 to 90 mins), starting at the New state-of-the-art trains SAT 10TH 12noon – 5pm Trinity Street gates, will visit the main features of with speeds of up to 100mph SUN 11TH 12noon – 5pm the park and reveal its history. The walk will be led by local historian David Griffiths, author of 2017 Secured for the Town: The Story of Huddersfield’s Greenhead Park. 2019 CANCELLED 100mph 2000 2000 Visitors will be able to explore our newly restored Extra services and refurbished museum, achieved with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with a period per week! bedroom and new exhibition gallery. We now have a complete weaver’s cottage with living kitchen and wash cellar, bedroom and loom chamber. There will be ongoing demonstrations of For more information or to stay up to speed, visit: weaving, spinning and clog making and visitors can see scone baking in the new Victorian kitchen, and www.northernrailway.co.uk take some home for tea.