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A month-long festival celebrating the impact of words in every corner of our lives. 1–31 October 2020 Festival Programme
Welcome to
WordFest 2020!
A warm welcome to our first with libraries own in-house team of
WordFest, a celebration of words experts have created an inaugural
in their broadest sense, bringing WordFest to be proud of, and I do
together a free programme of hope you will participate and have a
music, theatre, poetry, digital, go at some of the weekly challenges
spoken and written word or take the opportunity to renew
throughout the district for you to your acquaintance with our district’s
enjoy. This year’s festival events libraries this autumn.
of course will be delivered with
safety in mind owing to Covid-19. Cllr Jacquie Speight
Cabinet member for Arts,
This festival is an ideal opportunity for Culture and Leisure
Wakefield Libraries to lead the way by
celebrating our wealth of spoken and
written language and creativity from
youth to old age. I am pleased to open
the festival with the announcement
that our libraries are now ‘Fine free
and No ID’ venues, making it simple to
sign up for library membership, which
is a free life-long offer open to all who
live, work or study in the district.
WordFest will launch on Thursday 1st
October – National Poetry Day – and
will encourage new young voices to
work creatively with words. Creative
commissions to local artists combined
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How to Take Part
There are loads of ways to get involved, get a certificate to collect, a Makaton sign of
creative and have fun during the festival! the week challenge and virtual storytimes.
Starting on page 4, there’s a list of all the Challenge yourself and learn something
events taking place throughout October. new! You can find more information on the
WordFest website at: bit.ly/WordFestWFD
For all events in this brochure (unless
otherwise stated) please book: If you can’t make it into your local library,
don’t despair – it’s easy to join in online!
· In person at library venues
Follow us on:
· Online by emailing your local library Facebook @WakefieldLibraries,
· By telephoning your local library Twitter @WFLibraries
Instagram @WFLibraries
You can find the contact details in the “Your #WordFest #MakeWordsCount
Local Library” section on the back page of to join in the conversation and take part
this brochure. – we can’t wait to hear from you.
As well as our programme of events, this Oh, and while you’re online, keep a lookout
October all our libraries are turning into for our #WordOfTheDay, every day
WordLabs with special activities taking throughout October. We’ve raided the Oxford
place each week – so it’s a great time to visit English Dictionary for newer words to the
your local library and try something new! English language that have only entered
We’ll be challenging you to write a haiku the dictionary, or changed their meaning
about climate change, to recommend significantly, in the past 20 years or so. They
your favourite book, to share with us are a reminder of how our culture and society
your best Yorkshire-isms and to make a has developed in the last quarter century and
word – literally! – from whatever material there are some surprises along the way! Tune
takes your fancy. in to our Facebook and Twitter accounts to
collect them all.
Have you heard of Makaton? It’s a visual
way to communicate using simple signs, Did we mention we have a blog, too? Visit
and is used in many nurseries and schools. us at wakefieldlibraries.wordpress.com for
You might have seen it on CBeebies’ Mr fascinating facts and
Tumble! It’s easy and fun to learn, and can amusing articles on words,
be a great confidence booster for kids, book, family history and
especially ones with Learning Difficulties. so much more.
So, as part of WordFest, we’re running The
Rhyme Challenge. This is an entertaining,
enjoyable way to introduce children and
families some simple Makaton signs by using
rhymes. There’ll be rhymesheets to help you,
3What’s On
during WordFest
Date/Time Location Event Age Description
1–15 Wakefield Postcards Adults A thought-provoking exhibition of postcards
October Library From written by local people on the theme of
Library Hours Wakefield positive mental health.
3 October Stanley Words Preschool A music, rhyme and craft workshop for young
10.30am; Library that Sing! Families families exploring the lyrical sounds of our
2pm language. With Charlie Wells.
3 October Castleford Overdue 12+ A play set in a library, Overdue looks at what
2pm
LY OKED
B OLibrary to do with those young people who no-one
F U L knows what to do with. By Paul Bateson.
3 October Pontefract Story Pots Families Live interactive storytelling from Stride
10am; 11am; Library LD Theatre. Young people and their families
1pm; 2pm friendly create their own story.
3 October Airedale Telling Tall Families Wakefield Theatre Royal presents three
10am; Library Tales aged 5+ stories performed by a well-known actor and
11.10am; accompanied by a facilitator and a musician.
12.20pm;
2pm; 3.10pm
3 October Wakefield The Rebel Adults This energising talk showcases the lives of six
11am Library Woman’s historical British women, and how they used
Wardrobe the clothes which constrained them to make
a powerful impact.
5 October Horbury Recycled Adults Renewi presents a craft session where
2pm Library Words Craft participants reuse and recycle old words into
Session new sculptures.
10 October Sandal Words Preschool A music, rhyme and craft workshop for young
10.30am; Library that Sing! Families families exploring the lyrical sounds of our
2pm language. With Charlie Wells.
Please note: due to their nature, not all our bookable events have Booking required
exact finish times, but each one will last no longer than an hour. for these events
4Date/Time Location Event Age Description
10 October Horbury Overdue 12+ A play set in a library, Overdue looks at
2pm
BO OKED
Library what to do with those young people who
F U L LY no-one knows what to do with. By Paul
Bateson.
10 October Airedale Story Pots Families Live interactive storytelling from Stride
10am; 11am; Library LD friendly Theatre. Young people and their families
1pm; 2pm create their own story.
10 October Pontefract Telling Tall Families Wakefield Theatre Royal presents three
10am; Library Tales aged 5+ stories performed by a well-known
11.10am; actor and accompanied by a facilitator
12.20pm; and a musician.
2pm; 3.10pm
12 October Airedale Recycled Preschool Renewi presents a craft session where
10am Library Words Craft Families participants reuse and recycle old words
Session into new sculptures.
14 October Wakefield Recycled Preschool Renewi presents a craft session where
2pm Library Words Craft Families participants reuse and recycle old words
Session into new sculptures.
17 October Airedale Words Preschool A music, rhyme and craft workshop
10.30am; Library that Sing! Families for young families exploring the lyrical
2pm sounds of our language. With Charlie
Wells.
17 October Pontefract Overdue 12+ A play set in a library, Overdue looks at
2pm
OKED
Library
BO
what to do with those young people who
F U L LY no-one knows what to do with. By Paul
Bateson.
17 October Normanton Story Pots Families Live interactive storytelling from Stride
10am; 11am; Library LD friendly Theatre. Young people and their families
1pm; 2pm create their own story.
17 October Featherstone Telling Tall Families Wakefield Theatre Royal presents three
10am; Library Tales aged 5+ stories performed by a well-known
11.10am; actor and accompanied by a facilitator
12.20pm; and a musician.
2pm; 3.10pm
5Date/Time Location Event Age Description
23 October – Wakefield Unfinished Adults Two linked exhibitions.
19 December Library Business and Unfinished Business is an
Library Hours Suppressed exhibition from the British
Suffragists library on women’s rights, and
Suppressed Suffragists is a response
to those themes by local women.
24 October Castleford Words Preschool A music, rhyme and craft workshop for
10.30am; Library that Sing! Families young families exploring the lyrical sounds
2pm of our language. With Charlie Wells.
24 October Hemsworth Overdue 12+ A play set in a library, Overdue looks at
2pm
BOO KED
Library what to do with those young people who
F U L LY no-one knows what to do with. By Paul
Bateson.
24 October Featherstone Story Pots Families Live interactive storytelling from Stride
10am; 11am; Library (Learning Theatre. Young people and their families
1pm; 2pm Difficulty create their own story.
friendly)
26 October Airedale Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the
10am Library Nibble Families story of a guinea pig trying to halt
the disappearance of the delicious
dandelion!
26 October Normanton Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the
2.30pm Library Nibble families story of a guinea pig trying to halt
the disappearance of the delicious
dandelion!
26 October Hemsworth Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the
10am Library Nibble families story of a guinea pig trying to halt
the disappearance of the delicious
dandelion!
26 October South Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the
2.30pm Elmsall Nibble families story of a guinea pig trying to halt
Library the disappearance of the delicious
dandelion!
To book your place on any event, please contact your Booking required
local library, details on the back page of this brochure. for these events
6Date/Time Location Event Age Description
27 October Hemsworth Recycled Families Renewi presents a craft session where
11am Library Words Craft aged 5+ participants reuse and recycle old words
Session into new sculptures.
27 October South Recycled Families Renewi presents a craft session where
2pm Elmsall Words Craft aged 5+ participants reuse and recycle old words
Library Session into new sculptures.
27 October Wakefield Unfinished Families Led by Dream Time Creative this craft
11am–1pm Library Business and adults workshop lets participants create their
Craft own dolly peg suffragette to march for
Workshop women’s rights!
28 October Horbury Recycled Families Renewi presents a craft session where
2pm Library Words Craft aged 5+ participants reuse and recycle old words
Session into new sculptures.
29 October Horbury Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the story
10am Library Nibble families of a guinea pig trying to halt the
disappearance of the delicious dandelion!
29 October Wakefield Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the story
2.30pm Library Nibble Families of a guinea pig trying to halt the
disappearance of the delicious dandelion!
30 October Pontefract Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the story
10am Library Nibble Families of a guinea pig trying to halt the
disappearance of the delicious dandelion!
30 October Castleford Christopher Preschool Topsy Turvy Theatre present the story of
2.30pm Library Nibble Families a guinea pig trying to halt the
disappearance of the delicious dandelion!
7The Wandering Words...
by Becci Dye
We use words all the time. We write them,
feel them, hear them, sign them, and speak
them. But what happens if they disappear?
1-31 October 2020
How can you explain that you’re
happy, if the word has wandered off?
One day you meet a storyteller;
she tells you that some words have
scattered all across the district, and
she can’t remember them.
Before long you find yourself on
a magical adventure to find the
missing words.
You’ll be caught between worlds.
You’ll meet a dragon and a gryphon.
You’ll face a giant! All to find the
words that wandered away.
Would you like an adventure?
Will you help the storyteller?
Can you find the missing words?
bit.ly/WanderingWords
8PUZZLES
Would any festival of words be complete without a selection of puzzles
to get the old grey matter working? We think not. So here’s a fun selection
of headscratchers and brainteasers on all manner of subjects. Enjoy!
Crossword 1 2
3
4
5 6
7
8
9
10
Across Down
1. Unpleasant, wet, slippery stuff (5) 2. Someone who is very good at creating things with
4. Something you wear under your clothes, or (if you’re Lego (6, 7)
feeling silly) on your head (10) 3. ‘Terrible lizard’ that lived more than 150 million years
5. A mythical animal like a horse but with a horn growing ago, or someone who doesn’t know how to use a
from its Forehead (7) smart phone (8)
7. Laziness, or an animal who lives in trees and moves 6. Someone who has just started playing a game and
very slowly (5) isn’t very good (4)
9. A word to assist in the performance of magic (11) 8. Someone who plays A LOT of video games (5)
10. A being from another world (5)
Answers
Down: 2. Master Builder 3. Dinosaur 6. Noob 8. Gamer
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Across: 1. Slime 4. Underpants 5. Unicorn 7. Sloth 9. Abracadabra 10. AlienWhat is a dialect? It’s a language that’s spoken in
a particular area. It has its own words and meanings.
Yorkshire The way those words are spoken may be very different
from someone who lives in another part of the country.
Dialect As Yorkshire is the biggest county in England, the
Yorkshire Dialect has a lot of special words. Many of
these words date back to when the Vikings lived here.
If you were born in Yorkshire then you’re a Tyke.
If you’re feeling nesh you are feeling the cold.
A morngey child is a spoilt child.
When someone tells you to “put wood in t’oil”
then you are being asked to shut the door.
A ginnel is a narrow passageway.
If you’d seen a brock you saw a badger.
If you’re gormless and chelping then you’re foolish and talking loudly.
When the weather outside is blustery and raw, then the wind is blowing strongly
and it’s cold. If you choose to walk out in it then you’d be traipsing.
A pancheon is a bowl used in baking. It may be used for making parkin,
traditionally eaten on Bonfire Night.
And if you’re flummoxed by all these words, then you’re bewildered.
A mouldewarp is another name for a mole.
If something is wick, then it’s fast and difficult to catch.
If your hands are dirty then they’d be clarty.
If you say you are laikin about, you’re using an old Viking word that means playing.
Watter is the word we Yorkshire tykes use for water.
Lithenin is to thicken a sauce with flour.
To fettle something is to mend it.
10WordSearch
Can thi finn’ t’ Yorkshire words
in t’wordsearch?
I C L A R T Y N R F W I Y M
L W N N E K T I L C P T R O
K E I E R A D U A P A L U U
C L K S P U M K A T R I U L
I Z I H E M C N I E C T I D
W Z A K O O C I I E N H P E
N I L X R H P T T M A E C W
O M E B E L C A N M E N L A
W D T O E O K M U I A I O R
T O N H E M C M M D O N P P
P R C I Y E E U P D W R C N
I H R A W S B S T L E K Y T
O I E K P B T N Y I O O M Z
Y K T R A I P S I N G D N P
NUMPTY SUMMAT FLUMMOXED NOWT
LITHENIN MOULDEWARP MIDDLIN BROCK
MIZZLE BECK NESH TEEM
RAW TRAIPSING CLARTY WICK
PANCHEON LAIKIN CHELP TYKE
11Can you speak Gobblefunk?
Roald Dahl loved playing with words and inventing new ones.
He loved to take words apart and put them back together
again in a different way. “Propsposterous” (that’s “ridiculous”)
you might think, but Roald Dahl loved creating new words for
his readers and he called this language, Gobblefunk.
Can you match these two words together and then work out what it means in
Gobblefunk?
1 Hop Cheerful
2 Whizz A bottom burp!
3 Crod When you’ve been caught out!
4 Quog A space alien
5 Ucky Messy
6 Whoopsy Great!
7 Froth Silly
8 Del Delicious
9 Swig Disgusting food!
10 Fright Very frightening
some winkle scotchy pill whiffling popping buggling
squinkled umptious mucky
Answers
Delumptious 8. Quogwinkle 4.
Frothbuggling 7. Crodsquinkled 3.
10. Frightsome Whoopsy-whiffling 6. Whizzpopping 2.
9. Swigpill Ucky-mucky 5. Hopscotchy 1.
12Book Review
We’d love to hear all about your favourite (or least favourite!) book, so fill in the
blanks below, take a photo and then share it with us on social media!
Book Title:
Author:
Describe what you thought of the book in ten sentences or less.
Did you have a favourite character? Why?:
What three words would you use to describe the book?
1. 2. 3.
If you could give the book a score out of 5, with 5 being the best, what score
would you give?
out of 5
13Welcome to our colouring
pages!
Relax, unwind and let your creativity flow with these mindful images. We’d love to see
what you produce – why not share them with us on Twitter or Instagram?
1415
Meet this year’s creative
commissioned artists...
WordFest is supported by a selection of commissioned artists funded by
Creative Wakefield to showcase local talent and inspire involvement from
local families. The festival is also partnered by a number of organisations
who are contributing their expertise to the programme.
Words that Sing!
Venues Charlie Wells Music
Airedale Library A series of music and rhyme and craft workshops for
Sandal Library younger audiences will explore the lyrical sounds of our
Pontefract Library language for young families.
Featherstone Library Charlie will be collecting their work and the everyday
For times and days sounds of our library spaces and will be producing a
see pages 4-6 soundscape to represent the festival and the words and
thoughts of library users.
PARTNER FEATURE
Unfinished Business exhibition
Wakefield Library Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights, Is a
22 Oct – 24 Dec 2020 British Library Exhibition which is coming to Wakefield
Library from 23rd October 2020. The free exhibition
Pontefract Library
explores how feminist activism in the UK today has
9 Jan – 21 Feb 2021
its roots in the complex history of women’s rights.
Complementing this exhibition will be ‘Suppressed
Suffragists: Visible Visionaries’ an Arts Council funded
artistic response by local young men and women led
by Dreamtime Creative and the Forgotten Women of
Wakefield project.
16Overdue
F U L LY
Venues Written by Paul Bateson BOOKE
D
Castleford Library A new play for two actors set in a library. Overdue looks
Pontefract Library at what to do with those young people who no-one knows what
Horbury Library to do with. A young excluded girl and a stressed out teacher
Hemsworth Library with a passion for words given the job to work with him. Over
their sessions in the local library, they make a connection.
Suitable for audiences 12+ and adults.
Story Pots
Venues Stride Theatre
Airedale Library Live interactive storytelling for families with children of all ages
Pontefract Library including those with learning disabilities. Join drama tutors from
Normanton Library Stride Theatre and their young apprentices on an exciting
Featherstone Library journey where families create their own unique story inspired by
a pot of random props.
For times and days
see pages 4-6 20-minute imaginative story sessions where a small number of
families will take themselves an adventure never written before!
The resources used in these sessions have been developed by
Stride Theatre’s own team of young imagineers!
These activities are part of Creative Wakefield which has been
supported by The Department for Digital, Culture, Media
and Sport, who fund the Cultural Development Fund,
and is administered by Arts Council England.
PARTNER FEATURE
Postcards from Wakefield exhibition
Wakefield Library An exhibition of postcards hand-written by
1–15 Oct 2020 local people with positive wellbeing messages written
as part of a mental health awareness project which
began in 2019.
17Telling Tall Tales
Venues Theatre Royal Wakefield
Airedale Library Three traditional tales have been dramatised exclusively for
Pontefract Library WordFest and will be performed at selected libraries by a
Featherstone Library well-known actor and accompanied by a facilitator and a
musician.
For times and days
see pages 4-5 The Hare and the Tortoise (for ages 5-7)
Jack and the Beanstalk (for ages 7-11)
Thor vs. Loki: Thunder in Asgard (for ages 11-14)
They will be performed at three libraries on Saturdays in
October. Booking is via the library and spaces are limited
owing to social distancing; these productions will be filmed
and shown online through the festival as well.
Attendees at the performances will then be invited to
a series of workshops at the theatre in half term week.
Music workshops during half term at the theatre are also
available for young people 14-25+ with learning difficulties
(the music workshops are bookable via the theatre).
The Storybox
Venue Certainty of Chance Theatre
directed by Stephen Brennan
Selected local schools
One box, a ticking clock, and a brand new piece of theatre.
Storybox is a workshop for young people aged 7–11 that
develops storytelling techniques, resilience, confidence
and communication skills and teamwork. The groups of
children are given an opening line and a thematic brief,
and a box of props, costumes and instruments.
Led by a professional practitioner, the group undertake a
series of drama exercises and storytelling games to help
them to create a new piece of theatre against the clock.
This piece of theatre is then shared to an invited audience.
Performed in selected local schools.
18Things People Say
Venue Neon Workshops - Richard William Wheater
Above Neon Workshops - A flippant remark will be painstakingly emblazoned in to an
George Street, Wakefield unforgettable 6 x 4 metre neon sign.
16 October–31 November This animated neon beacon will be visible day or night.
See how the artist works with specially recorded time-
lapse installation recording online and surprise augmented
reality feature.
PARTNER FEATURE
Christopher Nibble By Topsy Turvy Theatre
For details see pages 6-7 Written especially for children aged 2-7 (and their big
people too) and told with Topsy Turvy Theatre’s own
blend of energetic storytelling, handmade puppets,
original music and stunning scenery, Christopher
Nibble is an uplifting story of one guinea pigs selfless
undertaking to help halt the disappearance of the
delicious dandelion forever!
PARTNER FEATURE
Renewi Recycled Words events
For details see pages 4-7 Reuse and recycle with Renewi to create some
upcycled words by crafting something from junk paper
products. A number of different workshops are on offer
for different ages toddler to adult so try your hand at
turning old words, books, newspapers, magazines into
something new.
19Try our
wonderful
Word Walks!
Have you heard about 50 Things
to do Before You’re 5? It’s a new
campaign and free app that
help you make the most of
the magical time that is early
childhood. For WordFest,
why not try our Word Walk?
There are 50 Words across six parks in the
district: Purston Park in Featherstone; Savile
Park in Castleford; Carr Lodge Park in Horbury;
Southern Washlands Nature reserve near
Eastmoor; Haw Hill Park in Normanton and
Wrenthorpe park.
Each word you find links to an activity in the 50
things app. Find all 50 words and have a go at the
app activities or to have fun with all the words you
have found, download the activity sheets here:
bit.ly/50things5
This is a wonderful opportunity to bond and have
fun with your children while supporting them to
grow and develop. Don’t forget to tick off all the
activities you’ve done and share your memories!
20Wakefield youth LitFest is a festival by End of October: Share Your Work,
young people for young people, running supportive opportunities to share and
in parallel to WordFest. listen. Open-mic opportunities including
Poetry Open Mic, Spoken Word
All the events within this programme
Showcase, Songs And Comedy, And
have been designed by a youth
Campfire Storytelling.
programming board made up of local
young creatives aged 14-19.
Don’t miss out!
They want young people to be lit
Get involved by following them
up about words and support young
on social media:
emerging talent.
@WakeyLitfest
WakefieldLitFest
With a strong LitFest Manifesto
the programme aims are: @WakeyLitFest
• Challenging ‘literature’ perceptions
• Engaging youth literature Wakefield’s Local Cultural
Education Partnership: Creative
• Fostering literary inclusion Futures for our Young People
• Community in words Wakefield Local Cultural Education
• Unity through diversity Partnership (LCEP) brings together
cultural and education partners
from across the district to ensure
Things to look out for: the children and young people of
Wakefield have access to creative
End of September: Unheard Voices of and cultural opportunities, supporting
Inspirational People, a call out for young rich and fulfilling lives.
journalists to deliver podcasts on people
who have inspired them. These will be LCEPs are promoted by Arts Council
professionally mastered and published England as part of its Cultural
in late October and early November. Education Challenge.
Throughout October: You should read Wakefield LCEP is supported by IVE.
this!, a series of daily book reviews by Contact IVE: hello@weareive.org
local young people.
First half of October: Time To Write
– Find Your Style, a series of online
workshops with professional writers
exploring skills for different types of
writing careers (Storytelling; Poetry;
Journalism; Plays; Songs; Gaming)
21WordFest
Festival Fringe Partners
In addition to the events taking place in libraries across the district the following
communities will be hosting their own mini festival fringe events, so look out for
these community events being advertised locally to you in the coming weeks:
Altofts Community Contact the venue to find out more!
Sports Foundation thebrig.org.uk
St Georges Wonderful Wakefield – Family creative
Community storytelling sessions where you get to write
Centre, Lupset the next chapter starting with your own family!
stgeorgeslupset.org.uk
The Addy, Addy WordFest – Family half term fun
Knottingley day with activities, games and storytime.
Come dressed as your favourite book
character. Picnic lunch for all children.
theaddy.org
St Marys Spooky Stories – Half term Halloween
Community Centre, theme Story Writing Competition with
Chequerfield, prizes plus book and activity packs to
Pontefract collect from St Mary’s Community Centre.
stmaryscommunity.co.uk
Walton Community Contact the venue to find out more!
Library waltonlibrary.org.uk
You can also pick up further information about
the festival at Crofton Community Library
and Pugneys Country Park Reception.
22Keeping You Covid-Safe At
Our Events This Autumn
For your safety and enjoyment please:
• Book for events in advance if requested and cancel if you start showing
symptoms, do not attend if you are ill with Covid-19 symptoms.
• As a courtesy please give 24 hours’ notice to allow your place to be
reallocated if your plans change. Places are limited at events and waiting
lists are likely to be in operation.
• Please turn up as close to the booked time as possible to avoid
overcrowding at venues.
• Your booking details may need to be kept for 21 days beyond the date
of the event for test and trace purposes, but rest assured they will be
securely destroyed afterwards.
• Be patient with staff and come prepared to practice current social
distancing regulations (face coverings unless exempt, supervise any
children closely, regular hand sanitising, stay in designated areas if
requested and follow safe routes around venues).
• Toilet facilities may be limited at some venues owing to social distancing
requirements. Please check in advance if you may need facilities during
your visit to make sure we can accommodate you.
23Your Local Library: Fine free and no ID Wakefield Libraries are now ‘fine free and no ID’. This means we no longer require ID to join our libraries, and we no longer charge fines for overdue library books. Our 12 library branches and mobile library service offer a free, cradle-to-grave service for anyone who lives, studies, works in or visits our district. Membership is free and there are a range of membership benefits, from borrowing books and audiobooks to free e-books and e-audiobooks, e-newspapers and magazines, study spaces, free computers and Wi-Fi in all branches, access to local history and family history databases, printing and copying facilities, community events, children’s activities and much, much more. Your libraries are: Airedale Ossett 01977 724040 01924 303040 airedalelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk ossettlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk Castleford Pontefract 01977 722085 01977 727692 castlefordlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk pontefractlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk Featherstone Sandal 01977 722745 01924 303355 featherstonelibrary@wakefield.gov.uk sandallibrary@wakefield.gov.uk Hemsworth South Elmsall 01977 722270 01977 723220 hemsworthlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk southelmsalllibrary2@wakefield.gov.uk Horbury Stanley 01924 303060 01924 303130 horburylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk stanleylibrary@wakefield.gov.uk Normanton Wakefield 01924 302525 01924 305376 normantonlibrary@wakefield.gov.uk wakefieldlibrarymuseum@wakefield.gov.uk For more information, including opening times, visit: wakefield.gov.uk/libraries-and-local-history/your-local-library
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