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Heritage Open
Days in Kirklees
58 FREE EVENTS in Kirklees,
6-9 and 13-16 September 2018
KirkleesHOD @kirklees_hod e: kirkleeshod@gmail.com
Enjoy a visit to...
...Kirklees Museums and Galleries
Web: kirklees.gov.uk/museums Kirklees Museums & Galleries @KirkleesMuseums
new perspectives
evoke explore
discover
captivate
enthral
Bagshaw Museum
Bagshaw Museum, • Huddersfield
Batley • HuddersfieldArt
ArtGallery
Gallery
Tolson Museum
Tolson Museum, • Oakwell
Huddersfield Hall
• Oakwell Hall&&Country ParkBirstall
Country Park,
About Heritage Open Days
Heritage Open Days (HOD) is England’s biggest festival of history and culture, involving over
40,000 volunteers. Each year in September, thousands of sites across the country invite 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.
In 2018 it extends over two weekends, eight days in total. This brochure has been prepared by
the Kirklees HOD Committee, Alongside exciting new entries, there are also many old favourites.
To coincide with the centenary of votes for most women, some - highlighted in green in the listings
- celebrate this year’s national theme, Extraordinary Women.
Most events are open access but due to limited capacity, some have to be booked. Bookable
events are identified in the brochure and the booking process is explained below. Please
respect this. If you don’t book, you will be turned away. If you do book but find you can’t
attend, please tell the booking service.
Kirklees HOD Committee is a partnership of Batley Smile, Discover Huddersfield, Holme Valley
Civic Society, Huddersfield Civic Society, Huddersfield Local History Society, Kirklees Libraries
and Museums services and Spen Valley Civic Society; we are also supported by University of
Huddersfield History students. We are hugely grateful to the site organisers and volunteers for the
work they do and to the partners and advertisers who have funded this brochure.
Heritage Open Days is coordinated by the National Trust and funded by players of the People’s
Postcode Lottery.
Every effort has been made to ensure that details in this brochure are correct at time of
going to press but sometimes things change: for updated information please check
www.heritageopendays.org.uk.
How to book
Where BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP appears, bookings are to be made at the
Visitor Information Point (VIP), Huddersfield Library, Princess Alexandra Walk,
Huddersfield HD1 2SU • 01484 223200 • huddersfield.information@kirklees.gov.uk
The VIP’s opening hours are: Mon – Fri 9.30 AM – 5 PM, Sat 10 AM – 4 PM
Booking at the VIP is open from 15 August
For other events where booking is required or advised, see the relevant entry.
Key
Parking Disabled parking Accessible toilets Assistance dogs welcome Refreshments
Hearing loop Children’s/family activities available Dogs welcome Partial wheelchair access
Full wheelchair access Pushchair/pram friendly Toilets Baby changing/Breast feeding area
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At-a-glance guide to Kirklees events
Listings are accurate at time of going to press. Please visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk
for updated information. Events highlighted in green contribute to the Extraordinary Women theme.
SITE MUST BE THUR FRI SAT SUN THUR FRI SAT SUN
BOOKED? 6TH 7TH 8TH 9TH 13TH 14TH 15TH 16TH
ALMONDBURY PAGE 7
Historic Almondbury walk YES X
King James’s School X
Victoria Tower, Castle Hill X X
BATLEY PAGE 9
All Saints Parish Church X
Bagshaw Museum X X
Batley Town Hall X
Bleak House Family History Centre X X X X
St Saviour’s Church, Brownhill X
COLNE VALLEY PAGES 10 - 11
Christ Church, Linthwaite X
Colne Valley Museum - Tea for Two or
X X
More!
Heath House Mill - Green Building Store X
St Bartholomew’s, Marsden X X X X X
Walking with Women’s Suffrage YES X
DENBY DALE PAGE 11
High Flatts Quaker Meeting House X X X X
Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre X X X X
DEWSBURY & MIRFIELD PAGE 12
Dewsbury Arts Group X
St Mary’s Community Heritage Site,
X X
Mirfield
Thornhill Parish Church X X X
HOLME VALLEY & MELTHAM PAGES 13 - 14
Holmfirth Blue Plaque Trail YES
X
(not VIP)
Holmfirth Holy Trinity Church X X
Lydgate Unitarian Chapel X X
Meltham Blue Plaque Trail X
Meltham Olde Ale Trail Walk X
Th’Owd Towser, Holmfirth X X
Wooldale Quaker Meeting House X X X
SITE MUST BE THUR FRI SAT SUN THUR FRI SAT SUN
BOOKED? 6TH 7TH 8TH 9TH 13TH 14TH 15TH 16TH
SITE MUST BE THUR FRI SAT SUN THUR FRI SAT SUN
BOOKED? 6TH 7TH 8TH 9TH 13TH 14TH 15TH 16TH
HUDDERSFIELD PAGES 14 - 20
Beaumont Park Heritage Walk X X
Edgar Wood film - A Painted Veil YES X
Exploding Huddersfield walk YES X
Extraordinary Women of the Borough YES
X X X X
(for talks)
Folly Hall Mill YES X
Greenhead College YES
X
(not VIP)
Greenhead Park History Walk X
Holy Trinity Church X X X
Huddersfield Library YES X
Huddersfield Parish Church X X X X X X X X
Huddersfield Town Hall YES X
In the Family Way (LBT) X X X X X X
Media Centre and Mechanics Institution YES X X
Oastler Building, University of
YES X
Huddersfield
Roebuck Memorial Homes X X X
St John’s Church, Birkby X X X X
St Joseph’s Catholic Church X
St Thomas’s Church X X X X
Tolson Museum Historic Motorbike
X
Display
KIRKBURTON PAGES 20-21
All Hallows Church, Kirkburton X X
Emmanuel Church, Shelley X
LINDLEY PAGES 21 - 22
Banney Royd YES X
Briarcourt YES
X
(for tours)
Lindley Clock Tower X
Lindley Methodist Church X
St Stephen’s Church X X
SPEN VALLEY PAGES 22 - 23
Cleckheaton Library YES
X
(for tours)
Gomersal Moravian Church X
Oakwell Hall & Country Park X X
Spenborough: How it Grew and Prospered X X
St John’s Church, Cleckheaton X
St Peter’s Church, Hartshead X X
Whitechapel Church X X X X
SITE MUST BE THUR FRI SAT SUN THUR FRI SAT SUN
BOOKED? 6TH 7TH 8TH 9TH 13TH 14TH 15TH 16TH
Go on!
Get yourself out and
discover the Heritage
Open Day events Heritage Open Days in
September 2019 – will
And don’t worry about your
YOU join the festival?
workplace, we’ve got you covered:
WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE?
Opening an interesting place in Kirklees for the public
to visit, leading a walk/activity, putting on a talk, film or
exhibition in September 2019 (exact dates TBC).
WHO CAN PUT ON AN EVENT?
Anyone, including building owners or groups/societies
working with the owner of an interesting building, or a
place where a historic event happened.
WHAT SORT OF HERITAGE?
All aspects: buildings, work, entertainment, worship, life
in war and peace ...
MUST WE OPEN EVERY DAY?
No! You choose: could be anything from one event on
one day, up to a full programme, as this brochure shows.
And they can be open access or by booking only.
ANYTHING ELSE?
Entry must be free. If you’re normally open to the
public, you must provide something extra, eg. guided
tours, an information sheet, an exhibition, a quiz or
activities for children.
WHAT HELP DO WE GET?
By registering on the national HODs website, you’ll get
national publicity there for your event, and you can apply
for promotional materials (eg bunting, banners). Locally
you will feature in our widely-distributed brochure and
we can offer a booking service for bookable events.
For discounted pricing and
STILL INTERESTED?
bespoke offers, sign up at:
Visit www.heritageopendays.org.uk for more information,
or e-mail local organisers at kirkleeshod@gmail.com to
www.riascaoffice.co.uk express an interest. You will not be committing yourself
to anything at this stage, beyond being added to our
mailing list for updates about plans for 2019.
or call 01484 660090
Open Events in
Almondbury King James’s Welcome to King James’s, the
oldest school in Kirklees. A
School school has existed at this site
St. Helen’s Gate, Almondbury, since 1547 with the oldest
NEW EVENT
HD4 6SG part dating from 1750. This
Discover Historic old part of the school will be
open and guides will be on
Almondbury walk hand to point out important
Sure Start Children’s Centre Car historical features both inside
Park, Fairfield Road, Almondbury, and outside. This year the
HD5 8TD old dormitories will be part
of the tour and we hope to
have the Royal Charter of
1608 back on display. There
will also be a feature on our
own ‘Extraordinary Woman’,
Emily Siddon, the first female
Governor of King James’s and
Huddersfield’s first female
magistrate.
www.kingjames.org.uk
SAT 15TH 10 AM – 2 PM
SUN 16TH Walk 2.30 PM
BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
Discover the history of historic Victoria Tower, Perched on Castle Hill,Victoria
Tower was completed in
Almondbury with a walk round
the village centre. Join Viv Uff for
Castle Hill 1899 to celebrate the 60th
a village centre stroll looking at Hillside, Lumb Lane, Almondbury anniversary of Queen Victoria’s
significant buildings described in HD4 6TA reign. The cornerstone of the
her recent book Picture Walking tower was laid on 25 June 1898.
Historic Almondbury. Dating from The tower was renovated in
a prehistoric hut settlement on 1960 when the top seven feet
top of its well-known Castle Hill, were removed, and now reaches
and benefitting from lying on an almost 997 feet above sea level.
ancient woollen trading route, The site contains a diverse
Almondbury developed earlier mosaic of wildlife habitats and,
than Huddersfield round a working with Natural England,
crossroads where an Elizabethan Castle Hill is a designated Local
market flourished. It has many Nature Reserve, and a Green
stories to tell. Flag Award winner, 2018/19.
www.discoverhuddersfield.com
SAT 15TH 12 Noon – 4.30 PM
SUN 16TH 12 Noon – 4.30 PM
This page supported by Huddersfield Civic Society 7
www.huddersfieldcivicsociety.org.uk
Bagshaw Museum
Wilton Park
Batley, West Yorkshire, WF17 0AS
With thanks to Mike Bettney of
BatleySmile CIC for his donation of
the Batley150 logo design
Join the Batley 150 celebrations The Batley 150 group first met at Bagshaw
2018 marks the 150th anniversary since the Museum in February 2018. They have been
foundation of Batley Borough Council discussing ideas and plans and would love
towards the end of 1868. The Batley 150 you to join in. Activities will begin in late
project aims to make a positive impact on Autumn 2018 and continue throughout 2019.
the lives of Batley residents. This will be Please share your ideas and get involved:
achieved by developing a collaborative range Email: bagshaw.museum@kirklees.gov.uk
of initiatives (2018-2019) inspired by local Tel. 01924 324765
groups and citizens.
follow #batley150 on twitter
www.democracycommission.org.uk/batley150
world, from ancient Egypt NEW EVENT
Open Events in to South Asia. Learn more
Batley about the everyday life of the Bleak House Family
Victorians by watching cooking & Local History Open
demonstrations and trying foods
NEW EVENT they ate, seeing the clothes Day & Taster Event
they wore and handling original 200 Ealand Road, Batley WF17 8JL
All Saints Victorian objects. See our
THUR 6TH 10 AM – 4 PM
Parish Church galleries which include stories
FRI 7TH 10 AM – 4 PM
about iconic institutions such as
Stocks Lane, Batley, WF17 8PA Fox’s Biscuits and Batley Variety SAT 8TH 10 AM – 4 PM
SAT 8TH 10 AM – 4 PM Club. Immerse yourself in our SUN 9TH 10 AM – 4 PM
atmospheric Egyptology gallery, A taster session to help
Visit a Grade 1 historical church
where dramatic lighting effects you research your Family
and learn of its architectural
help to recreate the interior of History. We have access to
and historical aspects through
a tomb, and the ‘Gods, Divine Ancestry, Findmypast and
our informative leaflets and
Creatures and Mythical Beasts’ other major facilities. www.
archived registers of baptism
gallery, showcasing beautiful bleakhousefamilyhistory.co.uk
and marriages. Some visitors
decorative arts from India,
may be able to ascend the
China, Africa and Japan.
200 or so steps to the top
www.kirklees.gov.uk/museums
of the bell tower at certain
times during the day. Light
refreshments will be served.
www.batleyparishchurch.org St Saviour’s Church,
Brownhill
NEW EVENT
Brookroyd Lane,
Batley Batley, WF17 OBU
Town Hall SAT 8TH 11 AM – 4 PM
NEW EVENT
Market Place, Batley, WF17 5DE Come and see this Grade II listed
Bagshaw Museum SAT 8TH 10 AM – 3 PM
building built in 1871 with a
unique stained glass window
Wilton Park, Batley, WF17 0AS We’re celebrating the 150th commemorating Queen Victoria’s
anniversary of the foundation of Diamond Jubilee, frieze of Minton
Batley Borough Council in 1868. tiles, fine East Window, Robert
Come and share your ideas as Thompson altar rail (complete
we launch Batley 150 at Batley with mouse carving), plaque
Town Hall. Enjoy exhibitions, commemorating a locally-born
displays, heritage tours and missionary, and a fine oil painting of
refreshments. We will start to Christ by Hans Richter-Damm.
tell the story of Batley Borough Documents and photographs
Council and we really need of items in the church will be
your help. Does your family on display, including World
have connections with Batley War I letters. There will be
SAT 15TH 12 Noon – 5 PM Borough? Do you have a story DVDs featuring the church and
SUN 16TH 12 Noon – 5 PM
to share? Please do. children’s activities available.
www.democracycommision.
This Victorian Gothic mansion org.uk/batley150
houses eclectic collections of
objects from around the
This page supported by Batley Smile 9
www.batleysmile.co.uk
about retrofitting older buildings
Open Events in to become eco-friendly and
the Colne Valley thermally efficient.
www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk
Christ Church,
Linthwaite
Church Lane, Linthwaite,
Huddersfield, HD7 5TA St Bartholomew’s,
SAT 8TH 10 AM – 2 PM Marsden
Have a look around in the 1850s. Taste a freshly Church Lane, Marsden, HD7 6DJ
Huddersfield’s first ‘Waterloo baked scone made in our
SAT 8TH 10 AM – 4 PM
church’, one of six built between Victorian kitchen and explore
SUN 9TH 11.30 AM – 4 PM
1828 and 1832. Our church the hidden well - hard hats
features a beautiful chancel available! The newly restored FRI 14TH 10 AM - 4 PM
added in 1895, a fine reredos row of weavers’ cottages SAT 15TH 10 AM – 4 PM
with statues carved in wood by which houses the Colne Valley SUN 16TH 11 AM – 4 PM
acclaimed York-based sculptor Museum is now fully open, Known as ‘The Cathedral of the
George Walker Milburn, and an with a complete cottage, new Colne Valley’, this church was
excellent JJ Binns organ. Local exhibition gallery and textile built between 1895 and 1911
historical novelist, Georgina room.Visit our ‘rescued’ clog by architect William Henry
Hutchison, will be present maker’s workshop and view Crossland and completed by
during the day to talk informally our latest exhibition ‘Marsden C. Hodgson Fowler; ours is
about local history, especially Remembers’ by the Marsden reputed to be his finest parish
the Luddite Movement of History Group, commemorating church. The church possesses
the early 19th Century. Her WW1. excellent stained glass, fine
latest (Luddite) novel, Under www.colnevalleymuseum.org.uk mosaic floors, and a James
the Canopy of Heaven, will be Binns organ. We are featuring
available for sale with copies an exhibition known as
signed by the author. “Marsden Remembers” which
www.linthwaitechurch.org.uk commemorates the sacrifices
made in WWI and the impact
NEW EVENT
the war had on our mill village.
www.marsdenparishchurch.org.uk
Heath House Mill
- Green Building
Colne Valley
Store
Museum - Tea for
Heath House Lane, Golcar,
Two or More! Huddersfield HD7 4JR, UK
Cliffe Ash, Golcar, HD7 4PY SAT 8TH 10 AM – 4.30 PM
SAT 15TH 1 PM – 5 PM Visit the former woollen mill Add your own
SUN 16TH 1 PM – 5 PM at Bolster Moor and meet event next year?
Step back in time to see how a its current occupants, Green
Building Store. There will be See page 6 for details
Colne Valley handloom weaver
and his family lived and worked tours of the old mill and talks
10 www.heritageopendays.org.ukOpen Events in
Walking with
Denby Dale
Women’s Suffrage
in the Colne Valley
High Flatts Quaker
Harold Wilson statue,
St. George’s Square, Meeting House
Huddersfield, HD1 1LA Firth Lane, High Flatts,
HD8 8XU
THUR 6TH 10 AM – 5 PM
FRI 7TH 10 AM – 5 PM
SAT 8TH 10 AM – 5 PM
SUN 9TH 12 Noon – 5 PM
Very early Quaker meeting
house, c. 1653. Situated in a
hamlet which was, until recently,
exclusively Quaker owned. The
building is produced in local
stone and can offer spectacular
views of the rolling countryside.
Guided tours of the area This small textile heritage
SAT 15TH Walk 11.30 AM
available, featuring reflections centre comprises a ‘one-up-
BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP upon local historical agriculture one down’ former weaver’s
Join historian Jill Liddington and rural industry, along with a cottage. The downstairs family
and walk in the footsteps look at a 1932 typhoid epidemic living-quarters have been
of local suffragettes and and the original village water maintained and furnished as a
suffragists. The 5-mile linear supply driven by water power. West Riding weaver’s family
route passes the homes www.highflattsquakers.org.uk home would have been around
and villages of several local 1900. Upstairs is an authentic
activists including Helen hand-loom in working condition,
Studdard, secretary of the along with fascinating displays
suffragist Huddersfield and artefacts linked to our
NUWSS branch; suffragette textile history. Guides will be
Elizabeth Pinnance, imprisoned Skelmanthorpe present and there will be daily
in 1907 for 14 days; and
Florence Lockwood, designer Textile Heritage loom demonstrations.Visits will
last about one hour. Leaflets
of the NUWSS Huddersfield Centre for self-guided walks along the
branch banner. Please bring Skelmanthorpe Village Trail
6 Queen Street, Skelmanthorpe,
packed lunch plus snacks. will be available. https://fosthc.
HD8 9DU
The walk ends in Slaithwaite wixsite.com/skeltexheritage
around 3.30 with a Q&A THUR 13TH 12 Noon – 5 PM
session at a cafe. Walkers then Loom demo 1 PM – 4 PM
need to make their own way FRI 14TH 12 Noon – 5 PM
back to the start. Loom demo 1 PM – 4 PM
www.jliddington.org.uk SAT 15TH 12 Noon – 4 PM
Loom demo 1 PM – 4 PM
SUN 16TH 12 Noon – 4 PM
Loom demo 1 PM – 4 PM
www.heritageopendays.org.uk 11Open Events in St Mary’s site by an experienced guide.
Also an organ recital. www.
Dewsbury & Community friendsofstmarysmirfield.org.uk
Mirfield Heritage Site
38 Church Lane, Mirfield,
WF14 9HX
Thornhill
Dewsbury Arts Parish Church
Group ARTSPACE
Church Lane, Thornhill,
Lower Peel Street, Dewsbury, WF12 0JZ
WF13 2ED
FRI 7TH Launch event
and talk 7 PM
SAT 8TH 10 AM – 4 PM
SUN 9TH 10.30 AM – 4 PM
See this medieval church (below)
which completed its beautiful
restoration in 2017. It includes
a nave dating from the 19th
SAT 8TH 10.30 AM – 3 PM century, an extensive collection
Organ recital 3 PM
of monuments largely to do
SAT 15TH 10.30 AM – 3.30 PM with the Savile family, medieval
SAT 8TH 12.30 PM – 4 PM
Visit our Grade II* listed Gilbert stained glass, a new replica
Dewsbury Arts Group runs a Scott church. Tours to the top Resurrection window in Savile
thriving theatrical and visual of the church tower and bell Chapel created by Jonathan
arts group in an old Quaker ringing room. See archaeological Cooke and a Binns Organ. On
Meeting House, built in 1831 pottery finds from recent digs Saturday afternoon the organ
and used until 1968. The and other historical artefacts will be available for organists to
grounds include a graveyard, in the church. The nine acre play and there will be a recital.
the stones of which still line site includes the remains of www.thornhillparishchurch.org.uk
the garden. Our members Castle Hall Hill, a medieval
will be available to give tours motte & bailey castle. There
and chat, with our own Owl will be Heritage Trail walks
Pop Up Coffee shop selling in the local area led from the
coffee, tea and cakes. We
are also officially opening
our refurbished costume
department and will have
members in costume as
exceptional women over the
years.
www.dewsburyartsgroup.info
12 www.heritageopendays.org.ukNEW EVENT There will also be tours of the
Open Events in cemetery which possesses many
Holme Valley Holmfirth Holy original 18th and 19th century
grave markers. We also have
& Meltham Trinity Church archives on site, such as Baptism
Registers, for family history
History Weekend researchers, memorial tablets
NEW EVENT 6A Towngate, Holmfirth, dating from c1800 and Great
HD9 1HA War and WWII plaques.
Holmfirth Blue FRI 14TH 11 AM - 4 PM
www.ukunitarians.org.uk/lydgate
Plaque Trail SAT 15TH 11 AM - 4 PM
Visit our exhibition
Holmfirth Methodist Church,
celebrating the church’s history.
School Street, Holmfirth,
We will be featuring a new book Meltham Blue
HD9 7EQ
recently written by Pamela Plaque Trail
Cooksey, a local historian, which
covers the 15th century to the Carlile Car Park (behind Carlile
present day along with related Institute), Meltham HD9 4AE
displays. Huddersfield & District
Family History Society are
supporting this exhibition and
will be promoting their newly
published book, A History of
Hepworth. They will also
offer their expertise in how
to conduct family history
research for visitors via available
SAT 15TH Walk 12 Noon laptop computers. SAT 15TH Walk 10 AM
BOOKING REQUIRED www.holytrinityholmfirth.org.uk The Blue Plaque trail was the
www.hdfhs.org.uk first ‘Meltham Walkers are
Booking at Holmfirth Library/
Tourist Office, 01484 223200 Welcome’ themed walk and
covers the philanthropists
Join local historian David of Meltham, namely the
Cockman on a guided tour Brooks, Carliles and Hirsts,
(lasting up to two hours) of who employed many of the
the twelve Blue Plaques in and Lydgate inhabitants. They cared for their
around Holmfirth town centre.
Unusually, eleven of the twelve
Unitarian Chapel workers, providing jobs in safe
environments, recreation and
plaques are to commemorate 1 Lydgate View, Holmfirth Road, education facilities. This walk
buildings rather than persons. New Mill, HD9 7LF will be approx. 7 miles and take
David will expand on the history FRI 7TH 10 AM - 4 PM about 3.5 hours. An alternative
of each building and, no doubt, walk will be offered if disabled
SAT 8TH 10 AM - 4 PM
will pass some buildings that he access is required; this walk will
thinks worthy of being endowed See a Grade II chapel and its
be approx. 3 miles and 2 hours.
with a Blue Plaque! Visitors can grounds; founded in 1695; it
For more information, contact
take part in the full tour or is one of the oldest chapels in
Christine Senior at 07856 844432.
break off at any point. West Yorkshire. We are offering
www.walkingmeltham.com
guided tours of the chapel,
including the upper balcony and
organ loft.
Holme Valley pages supported by Holme Valley Civic Society 13
www.holmfirthhistory.org.ukNEW EVENT Located behind the parish
church, this may be the oldest Open Events in
Meltham Olde Ale building in Holmfirth, said to Huddersfield
date back to 1597. Th’Owd
Trail Walk Towser has served several
purposes throughout its life
Carlile Car Park (behind Carlile
- acting as a mortuary and
Beaumont Park
Institute), Meltham HD9 4AE
housing for a fire engine and Heritage Walk
horse ambulance. It also acted as Visitor Centre, Beaumont Park,
a prison - see where prisoners Huddersfield, HD4 7AY
were kept and learn about one
of its more infamous occupants.
Wooldale Quaker
Meeting House
SUN 9TH Walk 10 AM Pell Lane, Wooldale, HD9 1QL
The Olde Ale Trail was recently
launched by ‘Meltham Walkers
are Welcome’. There were
originally 36 alehouses and pubs SAT 15TH Walk 2.30 PM
in Meltham and surrounding SUN 16TH Walk 2.30 PM
areas but only six remain open. Visit our lovely Victorian
The walk will take you round Heritage Park which has been
sites where these alehouses restored by the Friends of
were; some buildings are still Beaumont Park in partnership
visible, some are now long with Kirklees Council. Learn
gone. They were all located in about how the park came into
Meltham from the early 1800s FRI 7TH 11 AM – 4 PM being, its formal opening and
onwards, when water wasn’t SAT 8TH 11 AM – 4 PM how it looked 135 years ago.
always fit to drink while ale and SUN 9TH 1 PM – 4 PM www.fobp.co.uk
small beer were considered
Don’t miss a chance to visit
healthy alternatives. This walk
this early Quaker Meeting
will be approx. 4 miles and
House! View an exhibition
take 2.5 - 3 hours. Disabled
commemorating ‘Quaker
access possible for most sites.
Service’ that includes a history
For more information, contact
of relief work from the mid-
Christine Senior at 07856 844432. NEW EVENT
1800s, through the two World
www.walkingmeltham.com
Wars and up to the present.
There will also be felting
Edgar Wood film -
demonstrations and workshops. A Painted Veil
www.wooldalequakers.org.uk
Huddersfield Art Gallery,
Th’Owd Princess Alexandra Walk,
Towser Huddersfield HD1 2SU
Daisy Lane, Holmfirth, HD9 1HS BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
SAT 8TH 2 PM
SAT 8TH 10 AM – 4 PM
SUN 9TH 10 AM – 4 PM ‘A Painted Veil’ traces the life
and work of the Manchester
14 Holme Valley pages supported by Holme Valley Civic Society
www.holmfirthhistory.org.ukarchitect Edgar Wood (1860-
1935). Wood was an innovative
NEW EVENT Folly Hall Mills
Britannia Rescue, Folly Hall Mills,
Arts and Crafts architect, Exploding St. Thomas Road, Huddersfield,
drawing on traditional materials
and motifs to create a distinctive Huddersfield Walk HD1 3LT
new style. He designed many Harold Wilson Statue, St. FRI 7TH Tours 12 Noon –
buildings that can still be seen, George’s Square, Huddersfield, 12.30 PM, 4 PM – 4.30 PM
mainly in Yorkshire, Lancashire HD1 1LA BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
and Cheshire, including the
SUN 9TH Walk 2.30 PM Visitors will be able to take
internationally-praised mansions
a guided 30 minute tour of
of Briarcourt and Banney BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
floors 2, 3 and 5 of the 1844
Royd in Huddersfield, and the Experience Huddersfield’s
Grade II* listed Fireproof Mill,
iconic Lindley clock-tower (see history as you haven’t
built by Joseph Kaye. Originally
Lindley pages). This beautiful experienced it before – death
the floors of The Fireproof
film features many of his finest and destruction all around!
were rented out to a variety
buildings, and includes interviews Visit sites of explosions caused
of traders, but by the early
with architectural historians and by gunpowder, gas, chemicals,
twentieth century it was taken
the occupants of the buildings fireworks etc. Join Chris
over entirely by Joseph Lumb &
themselves. Marsden for a look back at
Co. for worsted spinning. Now
www.edgarwoodinyorkshire. Huddersfield’s violent past.
the mill serves as office space.
co.uk www.discoverhuddersfield.com
www.follyhall.hud.ac.uk
As well as our three free walks
in this brochure, Discover
Huddersfield runs regular
guided walks from spring to
autumn each year, and publishes
a wide range of printed town
trails on many subjects.
For further information, visit
www.discoverhuddersfield.comNEW EVENT Explore both old and new
parts of the College, with
Greenhead guides providing tours of the NEW EVENT
site. There has been a school
College on the site since it first opened
its doors to 236 pupils as
Extraordinary
Greenhead Road,
Huddersfield, HD1 4ES The Huddersfield Municipal Women of the
High School for Girls on 18 Borough
January 1909. It then became
Greenhead High School and Huddersfield Library, Princess
finally a Sixth Form College Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield,
in 1973. This event is an HD1 2NU
opportunity to visit all parts SAT 8TH Talks 11 AM
of the College site, including Launch 12 Noon
the award-winning Cooksey THUR 13TH 9 AM – 7 PM
building, the most recent FRI 14TH 9 AM – 5 PM
THUR 13TH 5 PM – 7 PM
addition to the campus, which
BOOKING ESSENTIAL SAT 15TH 9.30 AM – 4 PM
opened in 2017.
VIA COLLEGE BOOKING FOR TALKS
www.greenhead.ac.uk
ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
Booking:
Julie Polzin, 01484 422032, A new display of influential
jpolzin@greenhead.ac.uk women in the history of
Booking Closes: 10 Sep, 12noon Huddersfield, from many walks
of life and historical eras,
marks the 150th anniversary
of the establishment of the
Greenhead Park Borough of Huddersfield
History Walk in 1868 and celebrates
#Vote100. The display is open
Greenhead Park, Trinity Street, during library opening times.
Huddersfield, HD1 4DN Before the launch, short talks
FRI 14TH Walk 6 PM
from local historians will
highlight influential women
Greenhead Park is an attractive
from the fields of sport, the
Grade II listed Victorian town
www.friendsofgreenheadpark. arts, politics, culture, science
park which has been restored
org.uk and philanthropy. www.
to its former glory thanks to a
kirklees.gov.uk/libraries/
multi-million pound Heritage
Lottery funded project. Historic
features include a bandstand,
Italian Gardens & fountain, Holy Trinity Church
conservatory, and two war
memorials, all refurbished during Trinity Street, Huddersfield, FRI 14TH 7 PM – 9 PM
the restoration, which also HD1 4DT SAT 15TH 10.30 AM – 1 PM
included reinstatement of the SUN 16TH 1 PM – 4.30 PM
main lake and perimeter railings. Holy Trinity Church was built
An early evening guided walk 1816-19 by Benjamin Haigh
(60 to 90 mins), starting at the Allen and is a fine example
Trinity Street gates, will visit of late-Georgian Gothic
the main features of the park architecture, with high-quality
and reveal its fascinating history. early 20th century wood
16 This page supported by Huddersfield Local History Society
www.huddersfieldhistory.org.ukcarvings. The interior was NEW EVENT NEW EVENT
sympathetically modernised
in 1995 to meet present-day Huddersfield In the Family Way
needs while preserving many
of its historical features. The Parish Church Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen
Church will be open to view Byram St, Huddersfield HD1 1BU St, Huddersfield HD1 2SP
with displays and refreshments
available. Trips into the crypt ALL 8 DAYS 10 AM – 4 PM THUR 6TH 10 AM – 5 PM
are available on request. www. FRI 7TH 10 AM – 5 PM
St Peter’s is a Grade 2* Church
holytrinityhuddersfield.com SAT 8TH 10 AM – 3 PM
building with several interesting
THUR 13TH 10 AM – 5 PM
features, including an Elizabethan
font, an early 20th century FRI 14TH 10 AM – 5 PM
baldacchino, a fine Conacher organ SAT 15TH 10 AM – 3 PM
and several pieces of ‘Mouseman’ See another side of the
oak carvings. The opening will be Lawrence Batley Theatre. Once
Huddersfield Library hosted by the parishioners and home to a Methodist Mission,
- Behind the Scenes there will be new information the building gave refuge to
boards and a children’s ‘treasure unwed, pregnant young women
Princess Alexandra Walk, hunt’ type trail. Hosts will be able cast out by their families. Take
Huddersfield, HD1 2SU to open some additional areas of this opportunity to tour the
THUR 6TH Tours 11 AM, 3 PM the building not normally open. Grade II listed building while
BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP also discovering bits of stories
This Grade II listed building, and history brought together
designed by E.H. Ashburner, by young people of a similar age
opened in 1940. The Art Gallery as part of a Heritage Lottery
on the top floor of the building Funded project in August 2018.
NEW EVENT
hosts ‘Perspectives: Aspects of www.thelbt.org
the Kirklees Collection’, with Huddersfield
major works from the collection.
We will be providing 90 minute Town Hall
tours of the Library, including Corporation Street,
West Yorkshire Archives and Huddersfield, HD1 2TU
areas (and material) normally Media Centre and
closed to the public. www. BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
Mechanics Institution
kirklees.gov.uk/libraries/ FRI 7TH Tours 10 AM, 11.30 AM,
1.30 PM, 3 PM 7 Northumberland Street,
Huddersfield gained its Royal Huddersfield, HD1 1RL
Charter as a Borough in 1868, BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
and the first meeting of the THUR 6TH 10.30 AM
new Corporation was held on
FRI 14TH 2.30 PM
7 September 1868. The Town
Hall dates from 1875-81. Join us Seize the chance for a rare
for an extensive and interesting behind the scenes look at the
tour and see parts of the creative industries quarter in
building that are not generally Huddersfield town centre. Hear
Add your own how three historic properties
accessible to the public. https://
event next year? huddersfield150.org.uk were re-purposed and a new
See page 6 for details environmentally friendly building
constructed to support business
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This page supported by Huddersfield Local History Society 17
www.huddersfieldhistory.org.ukThe University of Hudderseld Press publishes a
wide range of journals and books, with a focus on
British Journal
open access publishing. of Pharmacy
Many of our titles are available
to read online at:
www.unipress.hud.ac.uk
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Do you have an idea for an You
academic book or journal? He
Contact Megan Taylor She
It
m.taylor2@hud.ac.uk Experiments in
Viewpoint
2017
@HudUniPress
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Students on these courses work on
a specific project with expert
supervision from a member of the
Huddersfield History team. Our
research encompasses a wide range
chronologically, geographically &
conceptually. From the Middle
Ages to the modern day,
Huddersfield’s historians are inter-
nationally acknowledged experts in
the fields of oral history, gender
history, health history, religious
Master of Arts by Research in history, social & political history,
History public history and battlefield
archaeology.
The History of Childhood
Public History, Oral History and
Community Heritage
mhmpostgrad@hud.ac.uk 01484 472375growth, employment NEW EVENT and constructed under the
opportunities and talent guidance of Joseph Kaye, ‘the
development in the creative Roebuck Builder of Huddersfield’, with
and digital sectors. Three of the the foundation stone laid by
buildings now accommodate Memorial Homes benefactor Sir John Ramsden
office units, co-working facilities, 509 Wakefield Road, Dalton, in 1851. Take a tour on Friday
meeting and conference rooms, Huddersfield HD5 9XL to Sunday or join our Aspire
event and exhibition space, group on Thursday to explore
reception and café. The fourth SAT 8TH 10.30 AM – 1 PM our heritage through crafting
property is the Grade II Listed SUN 9TH 10.30 AM – 1 PM activities. On Saturday we show
former Mechanics Institution SAT 15TH 10.30 AM – 1 PM off the work of our Birkby
(1859-1861) which has been Grade II listed site comprising ROOTS Heritage Community
converted to live–work units. eight almshouses/ cottages, linked Garden. Enjoy tea and cake on
www.themediacentre.org to a central pavilion (small chapel), the lawn, take a tour of the
and fronted by terraced Italianate- church and try out some family
style gardens, constructed 1932. friendly creative activities. www.
Commissioned by local furniture stjohnsbirkby.org.uk/aspire
NEW EVENT manufacturer and philanthropist,
Harry Roebuck as a memorial to
Oastler Building, his wife Jane, died 1919, and to a
son, Leonard, killed 1918 during
University of flying operations. Designed
Huddersfield by local architect Clifford St Joseph’s
Queensgate, HD1 1JB
Hickson, with references to
Edwin Lutyens, the homes are
Catholic Church
BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP of modest scale but the whole Somerset Road, Aspley,
SAT 15TH Tours 11 AM, 12.30 PM site has grandeur resulting from Huddersfield, HD5 9AU
the classical detailing. Meet at SUN 9TH 1 PM - 4 PM
Join Colin Blair from the
the small central chapel building
University of Huddersfield Originally a 1915 Anglican church
on site. Only external viewing as
for this exclusive tour of the designed by Oswald White, sold
the sites are privately occupied.
Oastler Building. As Director to St Joseph’s parish in 1953. The
www.roebuckhomestrust.co.uk
of Estates and Facilities for the interior has an elaborate roof
University, Colin will provide the construction, beautiful stained
inside story of how the iconic glass windows and a side chapel
building, overlooking Shorehead dedicated to ‘Our Lady’. In 1954
NEW EVENT
roundabout, was built. Please the organ was the first pipeless
advise on any mobility issues instrument of its kind to be
at time of booking so that the St John’s Church, installed in a local church. St
organisers can adjust the tour Birkby Joseph’s parish was established
accordingly. in 1913. Huddersfield Catholic
www.hud.ac.uk St John the Evangelist Church, St History Group will be sharing
John’s Road, Huddersfield, HD1 5EA their history of the formation of
THUR 13TH 10 AM - 12 Noon St Joseph’s Parish and displaying
FRI 14TH 11 AM - 3 PM their collection of photographs
SAT 15TH 10 AM - 4 PM
of St Joseph’s and other
Huddersfield parishes.
SUN 16TH 3.30 PM - 5.30 PM
www.ihom.org.uk/st-joseph-s
St John’s, half a mile from
Huddersfield town centre, was
designed by William Butterfield
This page supported by Huddersfield Civic Society 19
www.huddersfieldcivicsociety.org.ukSt Thomas’s Tolson Museum Open Events in
Church Historic Motorbike Kirkburton
Manchester Road,
Show
Huddersfield, HD1 3HU Wakefield Road HD5 8DJ
All Hallows’ Church,
Kirkburton
Shelley Lane, Kirkburton,
HD8 0TE
FRI 14TH 11 AM – 4 PM
Talk 7 PM
THUR 6TH 9 AM - 7 PM SAT 15TH 11 AM – 4 PM
Talk 1 PM
FRI 7TH 9 AM - 7 PM
SAT 8TH 9 AM - 7 PM SUN 9TH 11 AM - 4 PM Explore a major Parish Church
A wide range of new and classic with a history stretching back
SUN 9TH 9 AM - 7 PM
motorbikes gather on the to the 12th century. Climb
St Thomas’s was built by up our bell tower and meet
famous Victorian architect forecourt of Tolson Museum,
organised by the Friends of our Bellringers. Discover our
Sir George Gilbert Scott ‘Squint’ - and learn what it is…
(1811-78) for the Starkey Tolson & Ravensknowle.
On display this year in the All Hallows is considered the
family, one of the largest most complete example of a
employers in Huddersfield at Museum for this event will
be a ‘Panther Motorcycle’. 13th century church in West
the time, whose mill stood Yorkshire. Its heritage will be
opposite on the Manchester Panthers were made in
Cleckheaton and promoted as shared through an exhibition,
Road. The Grade II* Victorian oral history, trails and quizzes, in
Gothic Revival church was the ‘perfect motorcycle’. There
will a be a variety of stalls and both the church and churchyard.
consecrated in 1859 as a On Friday an organ recital
memorial to the family. Built refreshments. The Museum itself
offers fascinating collections (intermittent) will take place
at the same time as Scott was between 1 and 3pm. Friday
building All Souls, Haley Hill, reflecting Huddersfield’s past,
from Bronze Age remains to the evening sees a lecture by Dr
Halifax for Edward Akroyd. Pat Cullum of the University
The interior was re-ordered impact of the textile industry,
and an innovative toddler trail. of Huddersfield on ‘The
in 1990. Exhibition on two Medieval Parish and its Church:
Extraordinary Women - Kirkburton in context?’and on
Charlotte Starkey who Saturday, Tim Viney of Atlantic
ensured the church was built Geomatics gives a presentation
after her husband, Thomas on a project to digitally map
Starkey died before work the graveyards of All Hallows
commenced, and Bertha and Emmanuel Churches, which
Lowenthal, member of the received HLF funding.
Women’s Social and Political www.allhallowschurch.com
Union, who was arrested
in Huddersfield for her
suffragette protests.
Add your own
event next year?
See page 6 for details
20 www.heritageopendays.org.ukEmmanuel Church, Banney Royd is recognised as
one of the most important
60 years of institutional use,
Briarcourt is now a family home
Shelley private houses of its decade. again and is being renovated,
Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Designed by Lindley-linked and furnishings added, including
Huddersfield, HD8 8LH architect Edgar Wood and a fine sideboard designed by
completed in 1902, it was Wood. Tours of the house
SAT 15TH 10.30 AM - 3 PM admired abroad and described will show the progress and
Grade II listed church, with in detail in Hermann Muthesius’ discoveries made over the
beautiful windows. Children’s book Das Englische Haus. Today last 3 years.Visitors with or
activities and games with a it is a Grade 1 listed building.. without tour bookings will also
Victorian theme. Clifton You will be able to view the be able to visit the grounds,
hand bell ringers, 2 pm.Visit formal rooms - the entrance including Clem’s Garden, a new
the bell tower and try bell hall, drawing room, billiard room, community flower-growing
ringing. Exhibition celebrating dining room and library - and social enterprise. Meet some
the Church and Shelley from beautiful staircase with vaulted of the volunteers and perhaps
1868. See previous entry for ceiling and cherub detail. Two treat yourself to some eco-
presentation on graveyard bedrooms will be open to view friendly cut flowers. Limited
mapping project. www. and you are welcome to walk parking - not guaranteed. www.
emmanuelchurchshelley.co.uk around the gardens at the end briarcourtrevisited.com
of the tour. We have bee hives
on site - not suitable for people
with severe bee allergies.
Lindley Clock Tower
Open Events in Briarcourt
Lindley
NEW EVENT
Banney Royd
Halifax Road, Edgerton,
6 Lidget St, Huddersfield,
Huddersfield, HD3 3BJ
HD3 3JB
SAT 8TH 10 AM - 2 PM
28 Occupation Road, Lindley,
Lindley Clock Tower was
HD3 3EE
erected in 1902 by local
SAT 15TH 10 AM – 2.45 PM industrialist James Nield Sykes
House tours 10 AM, 11 AM, and designed in the Art Nouveau
12 Noon, 2 PM
style by Manchester-based
TOUR BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP architect Edgar Wood, who
A fine Jacobean style Arts and was Sykes’ nephew. A Grade II*
Crafts house designed by the listed building, it has extensive
Manchester architect Edgar Art Nouveau decoration by
SUN 16TH Tours at
10 AM, 11.30 AM, 1.30 PM, 3 PM Wood in 1895. Many original sculptor T Stirling Lee. Tours
features survive and a painted will take 15 minutes and involve
BOOKING ESSENTIAL VIA VIP
frieze by F.W. Jackson has been climbing 69 steps.
restored. After more than www.lindleygroup.org.uk
Lindley pages supported by Edgar Wood Heritage Group (Yorkshire) 21
www.edgarwoodinyorkshire.co.ukLindley Methodist
Open Events in Spen Valley
Church
45 East St, Huddersfield
HD3 3ND
NEW EVENT There are also Secret Tours
of the library, and a Children’s
Cleckheaton Treasure Hunt. [Secret Tours
Library at 1030 and 1330. Women in
Wartime talk at 1130. Treasure
Whitcliffe Road, Cleckheaton, hunt from 1030 till 1400]. Main
BD19 3DX site, talk and treasure hunt all
SAT 15TH 10 AM – 3 PM unlimited access but Secret
SAT 15TH 10 AM - 1 PM See below for tours Tours must be booked. They
There will be opportunities TOUR BOOKING ESSENTIAL
have restricted access because
to have a short guided tour of VIA VIP of stairs and are not suitable
the church or to look round Visit a serene Grade II listed for children under 10. All other
independently. The church library. The event features activities are fully accessible
building is 150 years old in Women in Wartime - a talk and unrestricted.
2018 and was designed by local by military historian, Tim
architect George Moorhouse. Lynch - and a display featuring
Notable features include the local Extraordinary Women.
chancel and the altar table,
designed by Edgar Wood, and
interesting Victorian stained
glass windows.
www.lindleymethodist.org
Gomersal died in the First World War, and
also what life was life for those
Moravian Church back home including extracts
Quarry Road, Gomersal, from the minister’s diary. See
BD19 4JB displays about the history of
the Church, and the links with
St Stephen’s SUN 9TH 1 PM - 4 PM the Taylor family of Red House
Church, Lindley Grade II listed Church, first and Charlotte Bronte. Light
built in 1751 and altered in the refreshments will be available
Lidget Street, Lindley HD3 3JB 1860s. See the special display to buy. There will also be fun
SAT 15TH 10 AM - 4 PM about Moravian traditions, activities for children.
SUN 16TH 1 PM - 4 PM
including the Lovefeast service
and the Christingle. See the
St Stephen’s is a Grade II listed ‘Gomersal and the Great War’
building designed by renowned display, with information about
local architect, John Oates, the men from Gomersal who
and built in 1829 by Joseph
Kaye, known as the ‘Builder
of Huddersfield’. Discover the
heritage of St Stephen’s and the
community it serves.
22 www.heritageopendays.org.ukNEW EVENT war graves. The Belfry has a
set of eight bells, dedicated in
Oakwell Hall & Spenborough: June 1947 as a thanksgiving for
Country Park - How it Grew and
victory in WWII.
Nova Lane, Birstall, Batley, Prospered NEW EVENT
WF17 9LG
RJ Donnan Hearing Care, 1B
Dewsbury Road, Cleckheaton, Whitechapel Church
BD19 3RS
Whitechapel Road, Cleckheaton,
FRI 14TH 10 AM - 4 PM BD19 6HR
SAT 15TH 10 AM - 4 PM
SAT 8TH 10 AM - 4 PM
Come and discover the history SUN 9TH 2 PM - 4.30 PM
of Spenborough, how people’s
SAT 15TH 10 AM - 4 PM
way of life changed as industry
SUN 16TH 2 PM - 4.30 PM
flourished. Old photographs,
documents and maps illustrate Whitechapel Church has a
the development of the valley Norman font, an Ellacombe
and its businesses, from card system of bells (which you can
clothing (Spen Valley’s speciality) try), the only Bronte grave in
to wire drawing, precision Kirklees, three WW1 graves
engineering, textiles and including one for two brothers
transport. The wealth of industry and stained glass window
helped Spenborough prosper memorials. It has been a place
through hard times, and enabled of worship since Norman times;
SAT 15TH 12 Noon - 4 PM entrepreneurs to play a role in the font is dated no later than
SUN 16TH 12 Noon - 4 PM creating heritage buildings in 1120 and its carvings include
our area. See how women were Celtic fertility figures described
A stunning Elizabethan by experts as lewd. The present
instrumental in the success of
manor house with Civil War church was built in 1821. Rose
some Spenborough firms.
connections. Now furnished Ann Heslip, aged 95, a niece of
www.spenvalleycivicsociety.org.uk
as the Batt family home of Patrick Bronte, was buried here
the 17th Century, it featured in 1915.
as Fieldhead in Charlotte
Brontë’s Shirley. Set in award
winning period gardens with St John’s Church,
adjacent Oaktree café. Explore
the country park with its
Cleckheaton
play areas, nature trail and Church Street, Cleckheaton
STOP PRESS - NEW EVENT
visitor centre gift shop. Sunday BD19 3RN
will feature traditional craft
SAT 15TH 9 AM - 5 PM St Peter’s Church,
activities with the Friends of
Oakwell Hall. www.kirklees. St John’s Church has been a Hartshead
gov.uk/museums place of worship since 1832
Church Lane, Hartshead,WF15 8EU
and is celebrating its 185th
anniversary. Rebuilt in the SAT 15TH 10 AM - 4 PM
Gothic style in 1886 it has SUN 16TH 12.30 PM - 4 PM
beautiful stained glass windows Further information:
on all sides. The church has a www.heritageopendays.org.uk
war memorial for the 1914-18 or Hartshead Hightown
World War and there are four Roberttown Scholes
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