What's On in Hebden Bridge
and the surrounding area - 2024-2025
Bassoonery
3:30 pm – 5 pm at St James Church, Church Lane, Hebden Bridge, HX7 6DS
Bassoonery - Sounds that'll make earthworms wriggle presented by David Buck and the Kingsfold Ensemble.
A free family-friendly afternoon concert with free refreshments thanks to a grant from CultureDale to put on ColdenCulture@St James.
Donations welcome towards our Community Kitchen.
POD - Car share launch event
Join us at POD's Share Launch to find out more about the car share club coming to Todmorden and Hebden Bridge!
Find out:
- how our car share club will work
- the benefits of car share clubs to your finances and the local environment
- where our cars will be located in Todmorden and Hebden Bridge
- how much it will cost to join and use the cars
- our future plans for expanding
- why we are a community benefit society
- how you can join as a user or buy shares to support your community
- And to ask us anything you want to know about POD!
See this HebWeb news item for more info
Dark Matter Promotions presents....
A double headline show
with 2 touring bands from the US featuring current members of A Place to Bury Strangers
Ceremony East Coast
Tremours
Golden Lion Todmorden (upstairs)
Doors 8pm
Tickets and bf Skiddle/ more on the door
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Todmorden Town Hall: 150 years old
Speaker: Margareta Holmstedt
From market hall, ball room and magistrates court to town hall: this talk tells the story of Todmorden Town Hall. We look at the brothers and uncle who paid for it, and where their money came from, as well as touching on life in 19th century Todmorden. The building itself is the star with its beautiful architecture and Victorian engineering.
Margareta moved to Todmorden in 1970 and was elected to the new Todmorden town council in 1976, serving on and off over the following 35 years. As a member of the Town Hall Friends and a volunteer guide, she is well placed to take us on a virtual tour of the building and its history.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Vision Board your Business workshop
Spend 2 hours away from the distractions at home, in the company of like minded people, working on your goals for your business for 2025.
6.30-8.30pm
Kindness at the Co-op, Todmorden
Booking essential
You'll leave the workshop having a clear vision of what you want your business to look like in 2025, with a sense of fulfillment after having spent an evening getting creative with other like minded souls, pinpointing your direction for the year ahead, with your own vision board, full of your plans, ready to turn into your day to day reality (along with expert tips so that it doesn't end up gathering dust under your bed) and feeling motivated and empowered for a year of action and moving forwards!
All materials provided.
A Spare Church In the Graveyard
With Diana Monahan
Diana Monahan tells us about the incredible role of St Thomas a Becket church at the centre of Heptonstall's history since the 13th century.
7pm at Heptonstall Museum.
Entrance is free for our members
£5 everyone else.
Dark Matter Promotions presents....
Nothingheads + The Dirt + Barbarism
An evening of dark and powerful post-punk with London powerhouse band headlining.
Golden Lion Todmorden (upstairs)
Doors 8pm
Tickets and bf Skiddle/ more on the door
Echoes of the Bunnymen
Mytholmroyd Community & Leisure Centre, 7.30 pm.
An aural tribute to the alternative Fab Four. Featuring some of the best tracks from the Bunnymen's albums. Echoes of the Bunnymen recreate the authentic early sound of one of the UK's best ever indie bands.
Not a traditional tribute act, no dressing up, just a love and appreciation of iconic music. Supported by Warm Parts, a psychedelic local band who's music has been described as 'electronic shoegaze and krautrock relentlessness'. This is one not to be missed!
Tickets, £10 from skiddle.com or £14 on the door.
Advent At Wainsgate
Kick off your festive season with Advent at Wainsgate on Saturday 30th November 11-5 - Free
This is going to be a wonderful event for the whole family, and we're pulling out all the stops to bring you a day packed full of things to do, see, hear, eat and drink. Don't miss it!
There will be beautiful hand-crafted gifts; Artists Open Studios; the best Santa's Grotto for miles around; wreath making; a Christmas tree festival in the chapel with trees decorated by local groups and businesses; live music; face-painting; lots of mouth-watering home-cooked, hot and cold, sweet and savoury food; a licensed bar; mince pies, mulled wine, Bailey's coffee and much more.
To book to meet Santa, email santa@wainsgate.co.uk - it's £10 including a lovely gift
To book for wreath-making email contact@wainsgate.co.uk - it costs £25 to make a gorgeous Christmas wreath - all materials and guidance provided.
All proceeds from the event go to support the work of the Wainsgate Chapel Charity.
https://wainsgate.co.uk/advent/
Santa is Visiting Blackshaw Head
From 1pm until 4pm.
Gifts, games, crafts, bric-a-brac and home produce stalls.
See Santa and then call at the wonderful Pat's Pantry.
Sing Joyfully - A Candlelit Concert
5-7pm Heptonstall Church
Book Tickets
William Byrd's striking motet Sing Joyfully, composed at the end of the sixteenth century, sets the scene for Hepton Singers' candlelit winter concert. The programme will present a rich choral tapestry spanning over four centuries, from Renaissance masters Tallis, Byrd and Lassus, through to the young shining light of the present classical music world, Anna Lapwood.
As well as exquisite works by Charles Villiers Stanford, Igor Stravinsky and Howard Skempton, and dramatic works by American composer Morten Lauridsen and the Norwegian-born Ola Gjeilo, the concert will also feature the spellbinding music of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
Photo: Craig Shaw
Christmas Markets
Hebden Bridge Christmas Markets – Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December.
Poetry At The Dusty Miller
7.30 pm in The Coiners Room, Dusty Miller Inn, Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd HX7 5LH
The last Dusty Miller poetry evening of 2024, featuring three brilliant poets:
JR Carpenter
Phil Foster
Harriet Tarlo
Hat passed round for poets. Books to buy
Car park at rear - bus stop outside - station 5 minutes walk
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
A Tale of Two Carnivals: films from the Yorkshire Film Archive
Speaker: Diana Monahan
How did these two films from a hundred years ago survive? why were the carnivals organised and filmed? where did the events in Hebden Bridge take place? Diana Monahan presents her analysis and some answers to these questions. These films are available to view on the Yorkshire Film Archive website, but some extracts will be shown, by permission of YFA, during the talk.
Diana has been involved with Hebden Bridge Local History Society since about 1993 and, although no longer a committee member, she still volunteers at our archive at Birchcliffe and deals with queries which are sent to the society. This has given her a broad overview of many aspects of our local history and, in some cases, an in-depth knowledge.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Dark Matter Promotions presents....
Ask My Bull (ska, punk)
with Woioi (cosmic grooves)
Golden Lion Todmorden (upstairs)
Doors 8pm
Tickets and bf Skiddle/ more on the door
Christmas Music at Walshaw
Music returns to Walshaw in December with renowned concert pianist Margaret Bruce supported by local musician Chris Irwin on the oboe, Rowena Thornton soprano and John Tattersall, baritone.
This magical afternoon in the stunning setting of Walshaw Lodge is a treat and with limited tickets available it's wise to book early! Book online at www.margaretbruce.com or 07703 278477 (no booking fees)
All proceeds to Overgate Hospice
Carols and Motets with Christmas Readings
A Charity Concert with Cantorelli and Olwen May on Saturday 14th December 2024, 3:30 pm at St James The Great. Hebden Bridge Parish Church, HX7 6DS
Free Admission. Collection for Forget Me Not Children's Hospice.
ColdenCulture@StJames presents our 6th CultureDale event celebrating Calderdale's Year of Culture 2024 which provided a grant for several events at St James.
Hebden Bridge Brass Band - Christmas Concert
Conducted by Alan Hobbins
2:30pm @ The Good Shepherd Church, Mytholmroyd
All welcome, donations on entry and refreshments will be available
Carols in the Square
Each Christmas Eve, for over 40 years, large numbers have gathered in the Square to sing carols. Atheists, agnostics and followers of religions.
6.30pm
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Scotland Yard, the Titanic, Rochdale Town Hall and the stained glass of St James Church Hebden Bridge
Speaker: David Smalley
Victorian stained glass has had, until recently, a very bad press. Yet in the late 1870s the congregation and clergy of St James church, at great cost, embarked on a programme of restoration that resulted in a complete glazing by the firm Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Complete schemes are unusual but this one, through the parish magazine, is particularly well documented, a rarity in the world of Victorian stained glass. This lecture looks at the background to the restoration and the social insights that have emerged as the Parish Magazine has been studied.
David says he has had a childlike fascination with light and glass since lecturing on gemstone identification in the 1970s and 80s. He has over the last eight years been studying stained glass through the Continuing Education Department at the University of York with a personal focus on Victorian glass.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: A Clear Light and a New World
With Jenny Harper
Jenny Harper joins us for a virtual talk about the inspiring work of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and the importance of her work involved in The Clear Light, a publication pivotal to the northern political and social landscape of the 1920s.
7pm at Heptonstall Museum.
Entrance is free for our members
£5 everyone else.
Climate Change: from Paris COP 2016 to the UK 2025 - The Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society is excited to present Professor Kevin Anderson on Saturday January 11th, 2025, at 7.30pm in The Town Hall. More info.
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Bring out your repairs!
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd will be up and running on Sunday 19 January from 1pm to 4pm
St Michael's Church Hall Mytholmroyd, HX7 5DS
Hot drinks and refreshments.
We can look to repair, clothes, bags, furniture, toys, bikes electrical appliances (not microwaves) knife/tool sharpening
Come and see what its all about.
Contact us:
Email: repairmytholm@gmail.com
Facebook: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Instagram: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Then and Now – photographs of vernacular buildings
Kevin Illingworth
The presentation will be very visual, showing photographs of buildings taken by Ralph Cross before 1978, compared directly with photos taken by Kevin, of the same building, in modern times. The buildings are mainly in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Pennines.
Kevin was born Galgate, near Lancaster and has had a varied career stretching from operating excavators and bulldozers in motorway construction to working with pigs in Lincolnshire. In between he studied at art college and Bath Academy of Art. He has worked as a self-employed 'Landscape Builder', especially in gardens of historic farmhouses. His detailed knowledge and photographs of vernacular buildings of Yorkshire and Lancashire are widely respected.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Whatever happened to the townships? The part they played in our local history
Speaker: David Cant
The ancient parish of Halifax was subdivided into 23 townships. David will answer some questions about their history: Where were they? How did they functions? Why is it important for local historians to know?
David has lived in this area for more than 35 years and is still fascinated by the landscape, buildings and history. He is a regular speaker at Hebden Bridge and across Calderdale, sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
The experience of civil conflict: Sowerby, 1638-1660
Speaker: Murray Seccombe
The men and women of Sowerby felt the crisis years of the mid-seventeenth century deeply and not just as a series of events in far away Westminster, dramatic as those were. They argued, they fought, they paid exorbitant taxes, they took up new forms of religious worship. This was a formative time for ideas of governance and accountability, and the township's leaders responded energetically. Drawing on the unrivalled source material of Sowerby's constables' accounts, this talk will ask questions about how deeply republican ideas penetrated and what was the legacy of those heady years.
Murray lived in Hebden Bridge for 38 years (and was President of HBLHS) before his recent move to York. He completed a PhD at Lancaster University in 2022, researching manorial and township governance of highways in the parish of Halifax, c.1550-1700. Before retirement, he worked in the community-based transport sector. When not reading or walking, he is currently editing the Sowerby constables' accounts (1628-1714) for the Surtees Society.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
The growth, development and decline of football in the Upper Calder Valley
Speaker: Derek Kettlewell
How did the new sport of "Socker" become established within the Upper Calder Valley, and why has the area no football teams of note currently? The talk will explore the challenges faced in developing the game as well as the footballing highlights provided by such teams as Hebden Bridge, Portsmouth Rovers & Luddendenfoot, and the notable players from, and visitors to, the area.
Derek Kettlewell is an enthusiastic researcher into the histories of both football and Rugby League, with a particular focus on sport at a grassroots level. He lives in Hebden Bridge and is a member of HBLHS. He is a supporter of Farsley Celtic FC and a former supporter of the now defunct, Bramley RLFC.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Bring out your repairs!
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd will be up and running on Sunday 16 March from 1pm to 4pm
St Michael's Church Hall Mytholmroyd, HX7 5DS
Hot drinks and refreshments.
We can look to repair, clothes, bags, furniture, toys, bikes electrical appliances (not microwaves) knife/tool sharpening
Come and see what its all about.
Contact us:
Email: repairmytholm@gmail.com
Facebook: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Instagram: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
The opening of Hebden Bridge Trades Club and the first Labour Government
Speaker: Alan Fowler
The Trades Club was opened in February 1925 and the foundation stones were laid in May 1924 a few months before One of the foundation stones was laid by Tom Shaw , Minister of Labour in the 1924 Labour government and member of Britain's first ever Labour cabinet. His speech reviewed the success of the government; but by 1925, when the Trades Club was opened, Labour was in opposition.
The key figure at the formal opening was J.W.Tout, former Oldham MP and Secretary of the Todmorden Weavers, who became the Calder Valley's first Labour MP. The talk explains the significance of these two ceremonies and how they reflected the wider change of the 1920s in Britain.
Alan taught economic history at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has given many memorable talks to HBLHS about the Labour and Trades union movements in our area.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Bring out your repairs!
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd will be up and running on Sunday 18 May from 1pm to 4pm
St Michael's Church Hall Mytholmroyd, HX7 5DS
Hot drinks and refreshments.
We can look to repair, clothes, bags, furniture, toys, bikes electrical appliances (not microwaves) knife/tool sharpening
Come and see what its all about.
Contact us:
Email: repairmytholm@gmail.com
Facebook: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Instagram: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Bring out your repairs!
Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd will be up and running on Sunday 20 July from 1pm to 4pm
St Michael's Church Hall Mytholmroyd, HX7 5DS
Hot drinks and refreshments.
We can look to repair, clothes, bags, furniture, toys, bikes electrical appliances (not microwaves) knife/tool sharpening
Come and see what its all about.
Contact us:
Email: repairmytholm@gmail.com
Facebook: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd
Instagram: Repair Cafe Mytholmroyd