OPEN GARDENS
OPEN STUDIOS
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Friday June 21 to Sunday July 7
Open Garden
Weavers Square, Heptonstall
All day
Free
Garden and pots on picnic square overlooking old churchyard.
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Friday June 21 to Sunday July 7
Open Garden
3a Weavers Square, Heptonstall
All day
Free
Tiny garden on the square. Small borders and many pots and planters. Hanging basket packed with as many plants as possible!
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Friday/Saturday/Sunday June 21/22/23; Thursday/Friday/Saturday/
Sunday June 27/28/29/30 and July 4/5/6/7
Open Studio
Platform One Gallery, The Old Parcels Office, Todmorden Railway Station
11.00am to 4.30pm
Free
A chance to take in Jeremy Burgoyne’s studio whilst visiting the exhibitions in Platform One Gallery.
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Saturday June 22, then every Wednesday to Saturday during the Festival
Open Studio
Bohuslav Barlow Gallery, 58 Burnley Road, Todmorden
10.00am to 4.00pm
Free
Permanent exhibition of Bohuslav Barlow’s work downstairs, and working studio upstairs. (Disabled access.)
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Saturday/Sunday June 22/23 and 29/30
Open Garden
Angeldale Guest House, Hangingroyd Lane, Hebden Bridge
10.00am to 5.00pm
Free
The Angeldale garden features sculptures, and on Sunday afternoons cream teas will be served. You can also arrange to relax awhile in the guesthouse with a Complementary Therapy ‘Taster’ session. (Call 01422 847321 for details.)
Website: www.angeldale.co.uk
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Saturday/Sunday June 22/23, 29/30 and July 6/7
Sumptuous Nonsense
Northlights Artspace, Melbourne Street, Hebden Bridge
11.00am to 4.00pm
Free
Heather Wilson and Janice Curtis present an exhibition of extraordinarily beautiful textile pieces. Included will be garments, bags, cards and banners, corsets and commemorative pieces.
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Saturday/Sunday June 22/23 and July 6/7
Textile Artist
7 Church Street, Heptonstall
12.30pm to 6.00pm
Donation to charity
Nicola Wheeler’s textile art studio.
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Sundays June 23/30/July 7
‘Green Man’ Wood Carver’s Studio
Basement, 11 Palace Road, Hebden Bridge
1.00pm to 5.00pm
Free
The carver of the Green Man in the ATC’s Primrose Garden, John Adamson says: ‘I take inspiration from the natural shape of the log. The wood and I converse. It tells me where I can carve, and I say what I want to carve’.
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Courtyard Garden
Alternative Technology Centre, Hebble End, Hebden Bridge
All day
Free
Demonstrates how a limited garden space doesn’t have to limit the imagination. Raised edible beds, container gardening, trees, worm composting; number of different watering systems for a variety of situations, ponds, reed beds, demo hydraulic ram and interactive fountain.
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Saturday/Sunday June29/30 and July 6/7
Little Theatre Garden
Hebden Bridge Little Theatre, Holme Street. Hebden Bridge
All day
Free
A sun-loving Craft garden. All the plants in this garden are not just pretty faces. Most were chosen for their craft value, to be used for experimenting and education. For example, papermaking, dyeing, drying, weaving, wildlife planting for health and pest control. Solar-lit stepping-stones and waterfall (currently under construction).
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Primrose Garden
Next to Fairfield Steps, below Palace House Road
All day
Free
This Woodland Craft garden aims to show how we can maximise biodiversity and wildlife in a beautiful, productive garden. Blending with the surrounding ecology, including a willow coppice, glade, wildlife hedgerow, craft hedge, wet woodland, the site of the Green Man carving, water’s edge, etc. A structure of paths built from materials obtainable from the garden itself allows access with minimum disturbance to rest of garden.
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Open Garden
The Mechanics Institute, 7 Church Street, Heptonstall
All day
Free
Minimalist, traditional, eccentric. On Weavers Square, Heptonstall
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30
Open Studio by Marina Yedigaroff
31 Royd Terrace, Hebden Bridge
Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm; Sunday 12 noon to 4.00pm
Free
Bright colours and gold leaf star in these vibrant, intense still life paintings of flowers and birds.
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Saturday June 29
Open Garden
The Calder Valley Organic Gardeners' Herb Day
The Good Shepherd Church, Cragg Rolad, Mytholmroyd
Saturday 10.00am to 4.00pm;
£1
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Saturday June 29
Open Garden
Central Street Infant School, Central Street, Hebden Bridge
10.00am to 4.00pm
Free
A boggy, grassy patch the children could not use is now a touchy, feely, smelly garden they can enjoy in playtimes. Annuals, perennials and scented bushes. Log path, willow tunnel and willow seat.
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Land Farm Gardens
Land Farm, Colden, near Hebden Bridge
10am to 5pm
Admission charge with 10% to Festival funds
Sculpture garden of 4 acres, with art gallery attached. Has appeared on Gardeners’ World.
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Canalside Garden
Mayroyd Moorings, Hebden Bridge
10.00am to 4.00pm
Free
Comprising a sunny sloping herb, vegetable and soft fruit area, leading to a short wooded walk along the canal side, taking in a shady herbaceous/annual border and a multitude of pots on the boat roof. Teas and homemade biscuits will be available.
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Hidden Garden with Sculpture by Mike Williams
Campden Heath Cottage, 16 Campden Road, Mytholm Steeps,
Hebden Bridge
10.00am to 8.00pm
Free
A walled garden in the woods with mixed media sculptures (wood and stone) and water features. Plants will be available for sale from surrounding gardens.
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Saturday June 29
Open Garden
Cliffe Field House, Birchcliffe Road, Hebden Bridge
10.30am to 3.30pm
Free
Long garden with interesting layout, spanning seven other gardens. Apple trees, soft fruit and shrubs.
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Saturday June 29 and Saturday/SundayJuly6/ 7
Plant Sale
June 29: Hebden Bridge Market
July 6/7: National Trust car park, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge
10.30am to 4.00pm
Plant sale run by National Trust members. 10% of all sales on June 29 to Festival funds.
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Open Studio
Linden Arts Group, Top Floor, Linden Mill, Linden Road, Hebden Bridge
11.00am to 5.00pm
Free
Light and airy top floor studios, home to a small group of artists. Including painting, printmaking and ceramics. (Sorry: no disabled access.)
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Open Studio
Northlight Studios, Melbourne Mill, Melbourne Street, Hebden Bridge
11.00am to 5.00pm
Free
A collection of artists and craftspeople working on the top floor of working mill. Work on show and for sale, including paintings, prints, cards, stained glass, ceramics and mixed media. Commissions also taken. (Access by stairs only.)
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Open Studio
716 Burnley Road, Cornholme, Todmorden
11.00am to 5.00pm
Free
Gallery displaying the varied work of artist Paul Croft. Pictures and mirrors in stained and textured wood. (Wheelchair access available to ground floor gallery. Parking opposite)
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Open Studio
‘Westwood’, Palace House Road, Hebden Bridge
11am to 5pm
Free
Woodturning gallery upstairs, plus basement workshop open for viewing. (Access: stairs only.)
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Saturday June 29
Open Garden
Top Shelf, Scout Close, Mytholmroyd
12 noon to 5.00pm
£1.50 - all proceeds to the Karenni Rainbow Foundation, which supports refugees from Burma.
The 4-acre garden includes a cultivated area with herbaceous borders and shrubs, a wild area and woodland. (Some of the woodland is on a steep slope and quite rugged.)
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30
Open Studio
9 Norfolk Street, Colne, Lancashire
12 noon to 5pm
Donation to Christian Aid
Steve Elliott’s art studio, with exhibition of paintings and masks. Tea and biscuits available.
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Mixed Exhibition
Ground Floor, Linden Mill, Linden Road, Hebden Bridge
12 noon to 4.00pm
Free
An exhibition of work by Ro Knapper, Martin Bates and David Wright.
(No wheelchair access: sorry.)
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Open Studio
The Workshop, Unity Street, Hebden Bridge
12 noon to 4.00pm
Free
Showing Mark Crowther’s textural collage and machine embroidery; the vibrant, colourful mixed metal and precious hallmarked jewellery of Kate Rhodes, and Sam Peare’s embroidered and experimental textiles. (Limited space.)
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Saturday/Sunday June 29/30 and July 6/7
Open Studio
Mill Bank Studio, Mill Bank, Sowerby Bridge
1pm to 5pm
Free
Mill Bank Studio has been open to the public for about 15 years. It is in a wooded valley near a waterfall and stream, in the unique village of Mill Bank.
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Sunday June 30
Open Garden
Club Houses, Old Town, Hebden Bridge
All day
Free
Group of exposed, sunny (south facing) gardens with helluva view and pond. Can be viewed from track or road (Walker Lane). (Access by uneven steps. Care needed!)
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Sunday June 30
Knott Wood Coppicers
Knott Wood, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge
10.00am to 4.00pm
Free, or donation to Treesponsibility
Working woods with the opportunity to use some traditional green woodworking tools. Turn wood without electricity; make a broom or a plant climber. Look after recently planted trees. (No parking. Steep walk up hill to woods.)
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Sunday June 30 and July 7
Open Garden
Myrtle Grove, Hebden Bridge
10.00m to WHEN???
Donation to charity
Informal country style sloping garden with a wide variety of herbaceous plants and shrubs. Free tea or coffee, and biscuits.
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Sunday June 30
Open Yarden – Take Two!
9 Eiffel Street, Hebden Bridge
10.30am to 4.30pm
Free
A mixture of perennials that have hopefully survived the wet winter – with a splash of annuals’ colour.
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Sunday June 30
Open Garden
16 Blenheim Street, Hebden Bridge
11.00am to 5.00pm
Free
Pots by my front door.
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Sunday June 30
Open Garden
Birchwood Cottage, Heptonstall Road, Hebden Bridge
11.00am to 5.00pm
Free
A one-acre, south facing terraced garden. Large variety of plants, lots of interest including small pond, rock garden, herbaceous borders, shrubs beds and woodland walk. (Steep steps in places.)
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Sunday June 30
Open Garden
4 Undercragg, Charlestown, Hebden Bridge
12 noon to 5pm
Donation to Festival funds
One-third of an acre, terraced and raised beds, herbaceous, fruit and vegetables in woodland setting. Conservatory, messy shed, serious composting. Plants for sale. Some surprises.
(No parking space - so no cars please. Uphill route to garden, in which there are some steps.)
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Sunday June 30 and July 7
Open Garden
Lee Mill Bowling Club Allotments, Hebden Bridge
12 noon to 3pm
Donation to charity
A budding forest garden designed using permaculture principles, with a mixture of fruit trees, shrubs and herbs, situated amongst a communal garden with vegetable plots. Tai Chi space and growing plans. (Sorry: no wheelchair access yet; _ mile flat walk.)
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Sunday June 30 and July 7
Open Garden
‘Thornfield’, Lee Royd, Heptonstall Road, Hebden Bridge
12 noon to 4pm
Admission charge with 10% to Festival funds
Raised terrace at front of house; a colourful display of tubs, baskets and obelisks. Cheese and wine available.
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Sunday June 30
Open Garden
Mayroyd Mill House, off Station Road, Hebden Bridge
1.00pm to 5.30pm
£1 (including 10% to Festival funds); concessions free
A designer’s garden full of many rare and unusual perennials and grasses, planted for bold effect. The garden holds the National Collection of Astrantia. Teas available. There will also be a sale of ceramics by renowned potter Dianne Cross. (No wheelchair or disabled access.)
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Saturday/Sunday July 6/7
Open Studio
Brier Hey Pottery, Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd
10.00am to 5.00pm
Free
Seconds sale. Kiln opening and unpacking. Exhibition of decorative and domestic majolica, decorated earthenware.
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Saturday/Sunday July 6/7
Open Studio and Garden
6 Rose Grove, Hebden Bridge
10.00am to 6.00pm
Free
Building on last year’s success, find tactile wood and stone sculptures / assemblages and expressive and vibrant painting and collage from two established Hebden Bridge artists (Ruth Wurzburger and Mike Williams) in house and garden setting.
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Saturday/Sunday July 6/7
Open Garden
19 Lees Road, Hebden Bridge
10.00am to 4.00pm
Free (???)
A secluded space, surrounded by tall Victorian terraced houses. Reclaimed from a neglected bramble patch over the last ten years. A multi-level garden featuring a wildlife pond, palm trees, bamboo and other unusual specimen planting. (Steep steps to side of house.)
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Saturday/Sunday July 6/7
Open Studio
Park Fold, Mytholmroyd
11.00am to 5.00pm
Free
Patricia McAllister (Lacey)’s open studio – sculpture and paintings. (Very limited parking.)
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Saturday/Sunday July 6/7
Handspinning
2 New Bridge Cottages, Midgehole, Hebden Bridge
11am to 4pm
Free
We are two handspinners, on spinning wheel or hand spindles, who produce a range of yarns, from all manner of fibres. We shall demonstrate spinning (and perhaps dyeing). With yarn for sale.
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Saturday/Sunday July 6/7
Open Garden
Winters Cottage (???), Blackshawhead (???)
12 noon to 5.00pm
Donation to charity
A _ acre garden created from a milldam consisting of island beds filled with trees, shrubs and hardy perennials. A stream runs through the garden, which has some interesting features. (Access: single-track road/bridleway, steep with occasional passing places. Limited parking available, but nice to walk if fit.)
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Saturday/Sunday July 6/7
Joseph O’Reilly’s Studio
9 Bank View, Mytholm Steeps, Hebden Bridge
12 noon to 6.00pm
Free
The studio is on the second floor of my home. (Sorry: not suitable for wheelchairs.)
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Sunday July 7
Open Garden
2 Carr View, New Road, Luddenden
1.00pm to 4.00pm
Admission charge in aid of Hebden Bridge Steiner Education Initiative
_-acre hillside garden. Naturalistic planting, wild area, organic, vegetable garden. Mature trees and shrubs and plenty of plants which resist slugs (as it is also very boggy in places).
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Sunday July 7
Open Garden
Watty Mill, Bacup Road, Todmorden
10.00am to 5.00pm
Free
Developing garden round a former corn-mill. Steep paths and slippery steps, so not suitable for wheelchairs or under 10s.
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Saturday July 6
Open Gardens
Cartref, Bryncliffe, Berwyn and Rosegarth – 4 houses on Lee Mill Road, Hebden Bridge
11am to 5.00pm
Free
Front and back of four family houses. Variations on theme of how to have a terraced garden. (Restricted access: steep steps.)
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Sunday July 7
Open Garden and Studio
Greystones, Haworth Old Road, Hebden Bridge
1.00pm to 6.00pm
Admission charge with 10% to Festival funds
A windswept garden at 1000’, presently being constructed out of a field. Features: south-facing stone terrace, gravel area with pebble pool, vegetable area, trees, climbers, many native plants and some unusual ones. And still many ‘wild’ areas. Plus paintings, ceramics and crafts. Needlework by Moira Blackburn; dog portraits by Kay Barret.
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Sunday 30 June and Sunday 7 July
Open Garden
20 Albion Terrace, Heptonstall Road. Flagged
yard, pots small border and climbers. Small selection of watercolours.
Refreshments for sale.
1.00pm to 5.00pm
Refreshments for sale.
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Sunday 29-30 June and Saturday and Sunday 6-7 July
Open Garden
5 Holme House Road, Cornholme,
Terraced garden with
interesting artefacts.
12.00 to 4.00
Refreshments for sale.