INFORMATION & EVENTS LISTING FOR TOWN & VALLEY 2021/22 Compiled weekly by Graham Mitchell as a service to the Community (contact: [email protected]) 9th Edition 8th March 2021 DATE EVENT TIME & LOCATION CONTACT MARCH MARCH Keighley & District Weds 10 Local History Society On-line by Zoom www.facebook.com/keighleyh March “Why Stanbury never got a Station & 7.00 for 7.30 pm istorysociety other local railway politics” Talk by Graham Mitchell www.keighleyhistory.org.uk Tues 18 Talk by The Bronte Society BOOKING March Award-winning Author On-line by Zoom Tickets £6.00 Andrew Michael Hurley 7.30 pm www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on Airedale & Wharfedale Family History Society FREE Sat 20 “From the Victorians On-line by Zoom https://awfhs.org March to the Elizabethans” 2.00 for 2.30 pm Talk by Janet Few Sun 21 Mar. National Census Day All Households Thurs 25 Keighley Town Council 6.30 pm KTC March Full Council meeting On-line 872126 APRIL APRIL Airedale & Wharfedale FREE Mon 12 Family History Society On-line by Zoom April “Rate Books & Tithe Maps” 7.00 for 7.30 pm https://awfhs.org Talk by Mary Twentyman Keighley & District Weds 14 Local History Society www.facebook.com/keighleyh April “Criminal Lunacy – From Dock to On-line by Zoom istorysociety Asylum in 19th Century” 7.00 for 7.30 pm Talk by David Scrimgeour www.keighleyhistory.org.uk K&WVR hopes to re-start Trains from Oxenhope Sat 17 April Public Passenger Services Timetable to be confirmed www.kwvr.co.uk (COVID restrictions permitting) Fri 23 to Keighley Town Council Town Council’s Sun 25 Virtual Facebook Page www.keighley.gov.uk April St. George’s Day Events Times to be confirmed MAY MAY Thurs Elections for By post Now confirmed 6 Parish & District Councils or at your local by BMDC May & West Yorkshire Mayor Polling Station as going ahead Airedale & Wharfedale FREE Mon 10 Family History Society On-line by Zoom May “Yorkshire’s Watermen” 7.00 for 7.30 pm [email protected] Talk by David Scrimgeour Thurs 27 Keighley Town Council 6.30 pm KTC May Annual Meeting Location tbc 872126 JUNE JUNE Airedale & Wharfedale FREE Mon 7 June Family History Society On-line by Zoom “Death comes to Eelmire” 7.00 for 7.30 pm [email protected] Talk by Barbara Dixon Sat 13 June Riddlesden Village Gala Procession from 1.00 pm [email protected] Sat 19 & Sun 20 Haworth 1960s Weekend Haworth Village June JULY JULY Sat 3 Oakworth Village Society Procession dep. Windsor Rd at Janet Armstrong MBE July Annual Gala 2.00 pm to Victoria Rd Gala Field 642 625 Sat 31 July Keighley Town Council & Sun 1 Yorkshire Day Details to be confirmed www.keighley.gov.uk August Events AUGUST AUGUST Sat 28 to Railway Children K&WVR Mon 30 50th Anniversary Stations & Trains [email protected] August Finale Event SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER Sat 4 Keighley & District Agricultural & 9.00 am to 5.30 pm 07704 766 010 September Horticultural Show Marley Fields www.keighleyshow.co.uk Airedale & Wharfedale FREE Mon 6 Family History Society On-line by Zoom September “After you’re Dead” 7.00 for 7.30 pm [email protected] Talk by Eric Jackson Sat 25 01274-407430 September Haworth ONE DAY 1940s Event Haworth Village andrealeathley1962@outlook. com OCTOBER OCTOBER Airedale & Wharfedale FREE Mon 4 Family History Society On-line by Zoom October “Black Sheep & Skeletons” 7.00 for 7.30 pm [email protected] Talk by Lynda Balmforth Mon 25 to BOOKING ESSENTIAL Fri 29 Jurassic Specials on the K&WVR Departures from Oxenhope online at kwvr.co.uk October or tel: 645214 NOVEMBER NOVEMBER Airedale & Wharfedale FREE Mon 1 Family History Society On-line by Zoom November “Blogging for Family Historians” 7.00 for 7.30 pm [email protected] Talk by Jane Roberts DECEMBER DECEMBER Airedale & Wharfedale FREE Mon 6 Family History Society On-line by Zoom December “Tracing a Criminal Ancestor” 7.00 for 7.30 pm [email protected] Talk by Kate Hurst 2022 2022 2022 2022 MAY MAY Sat 21 & 01274-407430 Sun 22 Haworth 1940s Weekend Haworth Village andrealeathley1962@outlook. May com, JUNE JUNE IN MOTION Leeds & Liverpool Canal Keighley Transport Festival 2022 East Riddlesden Hall www.keighley-in- Queen’s with FREE circular bus service Keighley College car park motion.co.uk Platinum every 15 mins 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Bus Keighley Town Centre Festival Co-ordinator Jubilee Bank Station – Ingrow – Cliffe Castle – Rail Story Ingrow 645 454 Holiday Riddlesden – Dalton Lane – Bus Sta. Civic Centre Cliffe Castle Thurs 2 Craven Old Wheels car show 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Cliffe Castle & Rides in horse-drawn Wagon Cliffe Castle Park 618 231 Fri 3 June Keighley & District 10.00 am to 5.00 pm www.facebook.com/keighleyh Local History Society First Floor Hall istorysociety “Ten Transport Tales of Keighley” Keighley Civic Centre www.keighleyhistory.org.uk 2.