Tuesday, 6 September 2016
Find out who lived in your house a century ago
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival is inviting local people to a special drop in session so they can discover who lived in their house a century ago.
The Arts Festival won a special Heritage Lottery Fund bid to run the 'Who lived in your Street?' project so today's Hebden Bridge residents can find out more about who lived in their properties at the height of the Great War in 1916.
Lees Road, 1911 census
Hundreds of locals have always found out wholived in their house, but the drop in session at the Town hall during Heritage weekend on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September - 11-3 will help those of you who haven't started to find out 'Who Lived in Your Street' in 1916.
Arts Festival Director Helen Meller said, "We have been overwhelmed by the response so far and we're building up a fascinating picture of the makeup of Hebden Bridge in the middle of the war. In my street, there are under and over dwellings to explore, it's really intriguing comparing notes with neighbours!
"The idea of this free drop in session is to help people start their own research and find out more about the people who lived here as our nation faced one of the gravest moments in its history as thousands of troops died in the great offensive of that year.
"But is also a chance to see what was happening on the home front as women were for the first time working in the mills dotted round the valley producing thousands of uniforms for the troops."
The open drop in session at Hebden Bridge Town Hall runs from 11 to 3 on Saturday 10 September and Sunday 11 September.
Previously,
Arts Festival thanks HebWeb (14 July)
Arts Festival up for major tourism award (5 July)
A weekend of free street fun (28 June)
Hebden Bridge becomes Trouser Town (22 June)
Made in Hebden event launches Arts Festival next Friday 24 June (16 June)
Win a pair of Arthur Smith tickets (14 June)
Win a pair of tickets for WiLd! (8 June)
Postman delivers love letters to Yorkshire (8 June)
Banner bags from the Arts Festival - 17 May 2016
Yorkshire Festival is backing Hebden Bridge Arts Festival - 10 May 2016
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival launches Trouser Town theme - 9 May 2016
Arts Festival goes Wild - 23 March 2016
Folk star Kate Rusby to close this year's Arts Festival - 9 March 2016
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival opens up - 1 March 2016