Doncaster HERITAGE FESTIVAL 22 April – 7 May 2017 Take part in events, talks, walks and workshops to celebrate the richness and variety of heritage in Doncaster. www.doncaster.gov.uk/heritagefestival MANY ACTIVITIES ARE FREE! WHAT’S ON… Sat 22 April Sun 23 April Doncaster & District Heritage Mexborough First World War Association Local History Fair Walking Tour Featuring The Great War on Tour Meet at Mexborough Railway Station, S64 9AQ Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, 11am – 2pm Chequer Road, DN1 2AE 2.5 mile walk telling the story of how the First World 11am – 4pm War impacted on Mexborough. You will take in landmark The Annual Local History Fair organised by the memorials, buildings and some of the personnel who member groups of the Doncaster & District Heritage contributed to the war effort. Association [DDHA]. There will be stalls, displays, family Tour led by Bill Lawrence of Mexborough Heritage activities, re-enactments and entertainment. Society and author of From Pit Town to Battlefields: Doncaster 1914-18’s Great War on Tour will be there 1914-1916 Mexborough & The Great War to launch ‘Our communities in War’, a new series of *Dogs welcome. Please wear suitable footwear. pop-up exhibitions focussing on the involvement of local Cost: FREE. (Donations to Mexborough Heritage people and places in the First World War created by Society welcome). Just turn up! local history groups. Bring along your First World War family objects to be scanned and added to a new online Sun 23 April community archive. Village Memories Braithwell Doncaster 1914-18 is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Walk 1 Cost: FREE. Just turn up! The Ruddle Centre, S66 7BA 2.30pm - 4pm Doncaster Heritage Festival is organised by The walk will cover the upper part of the Village taking Doncaster Heritage Services and is delivered by partners in the Church (12th Century), the Manor House, old Methodist Chapel and the Stocking Factory ending at across Doncaster for all to enjoy. The Master’s House (17th Century). Refreshments provided. For more information please contact Cost: £3. (Under 12s FREE). To book a place please Doncaster Local Studies on 01302 734307, contact Keith Leyland on: 07932 660 852 email [email protected], or visit www.doncaster.gov.uk/heritagefestival Please book tickets in advance as spaces are limited. Mon 24 April Tue 25 April Wed 26 April Hickleton Hall: At Home, At War Brewers’ Inquisition: Drop-in First World War Family Doncaster Central Library, Meeting Room 1 Heritage Edition History Surgery 2pm – 3.15pm Doncaster Brewery & Tap, 7 Young Street, DN1 3EL Doncaster Central Library, Meeting Room 4, DN1 3JE Hickleton Hall is a Grade II listed Georgian Stately 8pm - Onwards Time: 12pm – 3pm Hall situated in the picturesque village of Hickleton. Heritage themed Quiz Night at The Doncaster Brewery Would you like to research your family’s history but Continuing on the theme of Doncaster 1914-18: Tap. Pit your wits and intellect against the grumpy don’t know where to start? Or are you stuck on a At Home, At War this talk will focus on one house, brewer (grumpy because the prize is free beer). question relating to a person or place you’ve started Hickleton Hall. Topics include life as a dairy maid; Lord researching? Join our resident expert Bill Bevan for help The winning team will receive tokens for 6 pints of beer Halifax’s diary entries and some notable visitors to the Tue 25 April with all of your family and local history research queries, (valid for 1 week), with a cash prize jackpot quiz during ‘big house’, including T.S. Eliot and Kathleen Kennedy and find out how to share your First World War stories Hickleton Church Re-discovered the evening. (sister of JFK). via the Doncaster 1914-18 website. Doncaster Central Library, Meeting Room 1, DN1 3JE Cost: 50p each. (Max. team size is six) Limited space Cost: £2. Tickets can be purchased from the Central Doncaster 1914-18 is supported by the Heritage 10am – 11.15am available. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. Library. Please call 01302 734307 or email Lottery Fund. [email protected] In the 1980’s Hickleton church became too dangerous to hold services as the whole structure was being Wed 26 April Cost: FREE. Limited places. Please call 01302 734293 and ask to speak to a Mon 24 April affected by subsidence. A local writer said it was ‘falling Doncaster 1914-18: Stories from down a coalmine’ and in 1982/3 a plan was put in place member of the Doncaster 1914-18 team to book a The St Leger: The World’s First to underpin the whole structure. After twenty years the First World War place, or email [email protected] Classic Horserace Dan Radcliffe has compiled all the known information Doncaster Central Library, Meeting Room 1, DN1 3JE from the 1983 archaeological investigation and it is this 10.30am – 11.30am Grand St Leger Hotel, DN2 6AX information and the speaker’s own notes that are the Join the Doncaster 1914-18 project team and volunteers 7.30pm – 9pm focus of today’s talk. to hear some of the highlights from First World War Doncaster’s finale to the ‘British Classics’ rarely fails to Cost: £2. Tickets can be purchased from the Central stories submitted by Doncaster’s residents since 2015. provide a story and Tony Barber’s recently published Library. Please call 01302 734307 or email Find out about wartime nurses, remarkable battlefield history, The St Leger: The World’s First Classic [email protected] stories, a scrapbook, and Vic the dog! Horserace, recalls such stories. It reminds us that Doncaster 1914-18 is supported by the Heritage many of the racing world’s great stars count the St Tue 25 April Leger, a test of stamina for the three year old horses, Lottery Fund. in their victories. A Brief History of Doncaster Cost: £2. Tickets can be purchased from the Central Cost: £5. Tickets can be purchased from the Central Parish Church and the Library. Please call 01302 734307 or email Library. Please call 01302 734307 or email Restoration of the Queen’s Own [email protected] [email protected] Yorkshire Dragoons’ Memorial Doncaster Central Library, Meeting Room 1, DN1 3JE 2.30pm - 3.30pm A two-part talk discussing the history of the site from the 1st Century to Norman times, to the Parish Church and the Minster as it is known today. You will also find out about the restoration of the Queen’s Own Yorkshire Dragoons memorial & the research into the histories behind the names on the memorial. Cost: £1.50. Tickets can be purchased from the Central Library. Please call 01302 734307 or email [email protected] Thu 27 April Thu 27 April Fri 28 April Sat 29 April History of Doncaster Borough Presentation of the King’s Own Relaxed Opening Edward Thomas: War Poet Police 1900-1968 Yorkshire Light Infantry Colours Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, World War One Poetry Writing Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, Sir Nigel Gresley Square, DN1 3BU Chequer Road, DN1 2AE Workshop & Performances 9.30am – 11am Chequer Road, DN1 2AE 10am – Onwards Upper Room, Doncaster Brewery & Tap, 10.30am – 12pm Doncaster Council is hosting a presentation ceremony A Relaxed Opening for visitors who may prefer a quieter 7 Young Street, DN1 3EL A continuation of the history of Doncaster’s own police in Sir Nigel Gresley Square where The Rifles Regiment museum visit (including visitors with autism, dementia Workshop 2.30pm-6pm / Performance 7pm-9pm or visual impairments). force between 1900 -1968 when it was amalgamated will be presenting the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry An event in two parts. Produce your own poem based into the then West Riding police. It will include the force (K.O.Y.L.I.) Colours. The ceremony starts at 10am and Cost: FREE. Just turn up! on the work of the poets of the Great War. Led by local and the Suffragettes, the two World Wars, the growth promises to be a great spectacle with military band and poet Ian Parks, the workshop is open to beginners and of traffic in the town, the expansion of the town with the around 100 military personnel on parade. Fri 28 April experienced poets alike; just bring a pen and paper and inclusion of Balby and Hexthorpe, Wheatley and Cantley. The Great War on Tour team will be present at the The Brontës of Haworth let the poets of the First World War inspire you to write a It will also include two murder cases. Presentation of the K.O.Y.L.I. Colours and will be poem of your own. Doncaster Central Library, Meeting Room 1, DN1 3JE Cost: £2. Tickets can be purchased from the Central showcasing a new memorial trail commemorating the 10.30am – 11.30am ‘Read to Write’ commemorates the 100th anniversary Library. Please call 01302 734307 or email lives of the First World War Victoria Cross winners with of the war poet Edward Thomas with readings from his After the recent BBC drama, ‘To Walk Invisible’ hear [email protected] connections to Doncaster and the surrounding area, poems, journals, and letters. and exploring sites associated with them. Helen Cox give an overview of the lives and work of one of Britain’s most famous, and tragic, literary families. Supported by Right Up Our Street, Doncaster 1914-18 Cost: FREE. Just turn up! and Read to Write. Cost: £3. Tickets can be purchased from the Central Thu 27 April Library.