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haworth news15/06/2008 - Haworth group sow seed for a Big Show

Organisers of the Haworth Show have announced an exciting plan to celebrate the show’s 90th year. The show which will take place at the Haworth Community Centre on Sunday 24th August will be run in association with Sue Ryder Care with proceeds to be presented to Manorlands Hospice at Oxenhope.

Eric Bates, Chairman of the Haworth, Oxenhope, Lees and Cross Roads Gardeners and allotment Holders’ Association, who organise the show, is very pleased to be working with the fundraising team at Manorlands on the event. “Already we are seeing an increased level of interest from entrants and class sponsors and we are certain that this will result in a great 90th Anniversary Show.”

Sue Ryder Care fundraiser Andrew Wood is hoping that the Manorlands faithful will get involved in the show and enter the many classes within sections including vegetables, flowers, handicrafts, baking and a children’s section. "With the cost of travel rising so quickly, people need good local events such as this to get involved with.”

The Haworth Show Committee will launch the new and improved schedule of over 80 classes when they run the plant stall at the Manorlands Garden Party on 13th July. Anyone who can’t make it to the Garden Party will also be able to collect the schedules and entry forms from Sue Ryder Care shops in Haworth and Keighley or order them by calling committee secretary Geraldine Lamb on 01535 648610.

About Haworth Flower and Vegetable show here...
About the Garden Party at Manorlands here...
360 panorama at Haworth Flower & Vegetable show here...
360 panorama at Manorlands Garden Party here...
About Haworth in Bloom here...
About Haworth Primary School Gardening Club here...
About Haworth Park here...
About Friends of Haworth Park here...

haworth news02/06/2008 - Haworth-Machu Picchu Twinning video

Haworth-Machu Picchu Twinning video can be seen on You Tube. The 10 minute video is about promoting the objectives of the Haworth-Machu Picchu twinning group, which are to twin the two communities for mutual benefit.



Click play button to watch on this page, direct link to the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_93r9aDXc (opens in a new window).

A copy of the DVD can be picked up for free at
Haworth TIC
Number 10 the Coffee House
Sonia's Smile
Cobbles and Clay
Main St Post Office

About Haworth and Machu Picchu Twin Town Group here...

haworth news02/05/2008 - Worth Valley Local Election Results 2008

Bradford Council election results 2008 for Worth Valley ward are as follows:

Keith Dredge - Labour: 1027

Betts Fetherston - Green Party 308

Sam Harris - Liberal Democrat 312

Kris Hopkins - Conservative 2475

Information about Parish Council, Worth Valley Ward Councillors, MP for Keighley and Ilkley here...

haworth news18/04/2008 - Radio 4 walk to Top Withens

Radio 4 programme Ramblings first broadcast on 18th April 2008. Broadcaster Clare Balding is joined by Ann Dinsdale and Judith Bland from the Bronte Parsonage, they set out to walk to Top Withens and get lost!

You can hear the programme again by downloading as an MP3 file from the BBC website: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/ramblings/ramblings_20080422-1230.mp3

You can find out more about dowloading the programme on the BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/ramblings/

Information about walking to the Bronte Waterfall here... And then on to Top Withens here...

Information about the Bronte Waterfall here...
Information about Top Withens here...

haworth news18/04/2008 - Go Local for Free!

To All Who Live in BD20, 21 & 22! When did you last visit any of Keighley’s Local Tourist Attractions ?

Museum of Rail Travel – Ingrow Loco – Cliffe Castle - East Riddlesden Hall – Keighley Bus Museum – Keighley & Worth Valley Railway – Bronte Parsonage

“Go Local” on Sunday 27th April and visit ALL of them ABSOLUTELY FREE! (Just show a KWVR Local Residents Railcard or other proof of residence such as a recent utility bill, or council tax bill for example in BD20, 21 or 22)

Travel free from 1 attraction in Keighley to another on Heritage Bus Service 22

Bus Times
Hanover St (for Shops & Bus Stn) dep 1025 1110 1355 1240 1325 1410 1455
Ingrow Railway Centre (for K&WVR) dep 1045 1130 1215 1300 1345 1430 1515
North Street (outside Wetherspoons) 1050 1135 1220 1305 1350 1435 1520
East Avenue (for Cliffe Castle) 1051 1136 1221 1306 1351 1436 1521
West Lea Ave (for East Riddlesden Hall) 1058 1143 1228 1313 1358 1443 1528
Dalton Lane (for Bus Museum) 1105 1350 1235 1320 1405 1450 1535
Keighley Railway Station (for K&WVR) 1107 1352 1237 1322 1407 1452 1537
Hanover St (for Shops & Bus Stn) arr 1110 1355 1240 1325 1410 1455 1540

No fares will be charged. Passengers will be picked up and set down ONLY at the bus stops shown above. You can download the timetable as a word document here... or as a PDF file here...


This Heritage Bus Service will be operated by Keighley Bus Museum Trust Ltd

A restored London Routemaster Double Decker Bus will be used (subject to availability)

Whilst every effort will be made to maintain the service shown above, Keighley Bus Museum Trust Ltd accepts no liability for connecting facilities or any loss, inconvenience or delay thereby caused.

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway www.kwvr.co.uk
Keighley Bus Museum Trust www.kbmt.org.uk
Bronte Parsonage Museum www.bronte.info
Vintage Carriages Trust www.vintagecarriagestrust.org
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haworth news10/03/2008 - Haworth Captured Past exhibition

Update 7th May 2008
Ancestor day on 25th May 2008, help with family history from 1-4.

Update 18th April 2008
In partnership with Haworth Fairtrade, we are hosting a Fair Trade event in the meeting room of the Old School Room on the 10th May to co-incide with World Fair Trade Day.

There will be tea, coffee, buns on sale (all to go towards the refurbishment of the building), Doreen and Maureen the tea-ladies, a singer and story tellers. It will be open from between 12-4.

About the Old School Rooms project here...
About Haworth Fairtrade here...
Haworth Fair Trade website www.haworthfairtrade.org.uk
The International Fair Trade Association (IFAT) website www.ifat.org

Photos of Doreen and Maureen cleaning Haworth Main St here... Doreen and Maureen Gravy Browning TanNing Salon here...

Update 18th April 2008
‘Captured Past’ exhibition, a real success say organisers

Since the ‘Captured Past’ Photographic exhibition opened last month it has attracted an impressive 2400 visitors.

The exhibition, which was officially opened on March 21st, is being staged in the Old School Room on Church Street in Haworth as part of the campaign to conserve the building that has strong links to the Bronte Family.

Dr Angela Redmond, Project Development Officer, who is responsible for managing the project said: “We have been impressed by the numbers of people wanting to see both the exhibition and the building, which was recently re-opened for public access.

“We did not know how many people would want to see the pictures from Haworth and district’s past or the inside of this historic building, and it has been very satisfying to have received so many visitors in such a short space of time.”

The exhibition, which is running concurrently with a project planning phase, funded by a £43 000 Project Planning Grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), is designed to provide access to and raise awareness of one of Haworth’s most historic buildings.

Added Dr Redmond: “The feedback that we have received from the visitors and local residents has been very positive, and indeed we have been able to raise extra cash by selling copies of the photographs.

“Eventually we would like to turn the building into a heritage centre for the region as well as offer it as a facility to the local communities, including schools in the area.

“Its historic importance fits in well with the literary connections of the village and when the project is up and running it will help complete our understanding of life in Haworth and district in times gone by.”


As part of the development of the project visitors to the Old School Room have been asked to fill in a questionnaire concerning the future use of the building and its relevance to the local lifestyle.

“The responses have confirmed our initial thinking about the need for a locally based heritage facility,” said Dr Redmond. “They have made very interesting reading and we’ve gained a considerable amount of knowledge from the information the visitors have provided. We are grateful for everybody’s contribution.”

The exhibition, which will run until September this year, is a precursor to a programme of other events to be staged at the Old School Room.

The ultimate aim of the project is to seek sufficient funding to conserve and maintain the fabric of the historic building and offer it as a heritage amenity for the community.

Haworth’s ‘Captured Past’ exhibition


The exhibition of photographs from Haworth and District at the 'Old School Room’ in Church Street, Haworth is now open to the public. Admission is free and the opening hours are normally 1.00pm to 4.00pm seven days a week until September 2008.

Local historian Steven Wood will give a talk/powerpoint presentation on the pictures in the exhibition on the Sunday of the 8th June, at the Old School Room at 730 pm - tickets £2 on the door, to go towards the restoration project.


When the Rev. Patrick Brontë built the ‘Old School Room’ in Church Street, Haworth next to his Parsonage he could not have imaged that 176 years later in 2008 that the building would not be able to fully serve the Pennine village.

Today the ‘Old School Room’ is feeling its age and in need to a major face lift.

At the end of last year the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £43,300 to Brontë Spirit, the partnership of the Brontë Society and Brontë’s former church, St Michaels and All Angels, to plan a restoration project.

The grant has been allocated to construct a plan which will eventually see the old school room where the Brontës taught village children refurbished and developed for use in the future given a major face-lift.

The first part of raising awareness in the schoolroom and the restoration project is an exhibition of photographs from Haworth and District which were taken from the early days of photography during the reign of Queen Victoria through to the 1970s.

‘Old School Room’ Project Officer Dr. Angela Redmond explained: “The ‘Old School Room’ is the only building where all four Brontë children worked at one time or another.

“It‘s the building where Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nicholls held their public wedding feast following their marriage in St Michael’s Church just across the street.

“The Haworth district has an amazing past and we want people to be able to access it.

“Part of our thinking is that the ‘Old School Room’ could become a heritage centre for the area as well becoming a major site for the advancement of the Arts and Education within the district.

“Many people who live in the district have never been inside the ‘Old School Room’ and this will be their chance to have a look around as well as appreciate the exhibition”.


The photographs in the exhibition have been supplied by Haworth historian Mr Steven Wood and the exhibition organiser is Mr Stephen Whitehead. Dr Redmond added: “The oldest photograph was taken in the mid 1850s and perfectly illustrates the kind of life-style that the Brontë family experienced. It also has the Old School Room as backdrop which is a wonderful link with what we’re trying to achieve today.”

The exhibition will be officially opened with a media and VIP launch on Thursday, March 20 and then to the public at 2.00pm the following day. The opening will be rung in by the bell ringers of the Parish Church, lead by Captain of the bells, Simon Burnett. Admission is free and the opening hours are normally 1.00pm to 4.00pm seven days a week until September 2008.

As part of a study to help restore and utilise the Old School Room, Brontë Spirit (a partnership between Haworth Parish Church & the Brontë Society) needs to know your ideas and any concerns.

We would be very grateful if you would spend a few minutes completing this on-line questionnaire - many of the questions simply require a tick or number in the relevant box. You can download the questionnaire as a word document here...

To include the information you provide in the project we need your response by 26th September 2008. Please print and return your completed questionnaire by post or by hand to the Old School Room, Church or Parsonage Museum - a box will be left inside the entrance.

About the Old School Rooms here...
Bronte Parsonage website www.bronte.info (opens in a new window).


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