What's On 2008/09

Join us for a brilliant year of traditional and contemporary events plus visual and performing arts and some great festivals. Look out for museum open days, canal celebrations, steam railway galas, guided walks and MUCH more than we can list here.

See the Update Box for what’s new or extra special and remember to check on each district’s individual website, at Tourist Information Centres and at area countryside centres.

What’s On? brackets a letter after most events directing you to the appropriate TIC: Tourist Information Centre or other contact points listed on page 21. Always check dates {tbc = still to be confirmed}. Every effort is made to be accurate but no responsibility can be accepted.

EXHIBITION CHOICE

To May 29th The Centenary Exhibition Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
To 30th May Quality Street and Toffee Deluxe Bankfield Museum Halifax; Ann Lister’s Diary Shibden Hall; Percy Shaw: inventor of ‘Cats eyes’ Halifax Art Gallery: a trio of Calderdale exhibitions celebrating “ideas and innovation”, theme of 2008 Museums and Galleries Month. {C}
May 24th-June 29th Not Just Run of the Mill Painting inspired by mill interiors NT Gibson Mill Hardcastle Crags {NT}
May 24th-November 2nd Sophie Ryder Stunning wirework at Yorkshire Sculpture Park {K}
May 31st-September 14th From Cooler Woodlands Britain’s wildlife at Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
To June 1st Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook, Photographs 1932-1946 and Extra! Extra! Tales from the Daily Herald Archive National Media Museum Bradford {BD}
To June 14th Trees Britain’s trees and their use as a resource Gallery Oldham {O}
To June 29th Reflective Journeys Childhood memories of India at Rossendale Museum Rawtenstall {RD}
June 7th-September 28th TAPESTRY ’08 Major national exhibition with demonstrartion days Dean Clough and Bankfield Museum Halifax {C}
June 20-August 31st Sunny Snaps: Street and Beach Photography in Britain National Media Museum Bradford {BD}
To July 6th Fathers, Brothers, Sons One family in Afghanistan Imperial War Museum North, Manchester
To July 12th stART Young peoples’ focus Queen Street Mill Burnley {B}
To July 20th Planes, Awls and Plinths 200 years of woodworking; to 27th What Makes Me Laugh Shahida Akram’s photographs Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
To September 7th Made in the 70s and {to September 28th} Step into the 70s Touchstones Rochdale {R}
To October 31st 10 Years of Progressive Threads NT Gawthorpe Hall Padiham {B}
To December 31st Lowry Favourites The Lowry Salford Quays
To December 3st No Coward Soul The life and work of Emily Bronte and Who Were the Brontes? Bronte Parsonage Museum Haworth {HW}

MAY

10th MAYFEST Halifax Beer Festival Square Chapel {C}
10th Blackshawhead Craft Fair + Plant Sale {HB}
10th Bluebell Walk NT Hardcastle Crags Booking essential {NT}
10th-11th Holmfirth Festival of Folk {HM}
10th-11th Blast from the Past Civil war life at NT East Riddlesden Hall Keighley {HW}
10th-11th Bronte Vintage Gathering Haworth {HW}
11th Pentecost Concert Lister Park Bradford {BD}
11th National Mills Weekend Free admission Queen Street Mill Museum Burnley {B}
15th-June 7th Dick Barton Special Agent Oldham Coliseum {O}
16th Saddleworth & District Whit Friday Brass Band Concert {SD} + 17th Saddleworth Beer Walk {SD}
16th-18th Shepley Spring Festival “Working to build a folk festival of national reputation”. Guest Peggy Seeger {K}
17th Wildflowers of Wycoller Wycoller Country Park {P}
17th Rochdale Town Hall Organ Recital {R}
17th Bat Night Hollingworth Lake Visitor Centre Littleborough {R}
17th A Night at the Opera Halifax Symphony Orchestra Victoria Theatre Halifax {C}
17th-18th South Pennine Challenge Community fundraiser: 6,12,25 or 50 mile walks. Details 01422 349700 {HB}
17th-18th Haworth 1940s Weekend {HW}
18th Spring Plant Fair NT Marsden Moor Estate Office {NT}
18th Sunday Steaming! Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick {BA}
20th Meet the Gardener NT East Riddlesden Hall Keighley {HW}
24th Todmorden Carnival {T}
24th-25th 1940’s Wartime Weekend East Lancashire Railway {BY;R}
24th-25th Oak Mount Mill Engine Open Day Burnley {B}
25th The Wainhouse Trail Calderdale Heritage Walk {C}
24th-26th BIG Green Weekend Hebden Bridge {HB}
25th Guided towpath walk Weavers’ Triangle Burnley {B}
25th Prehistoric Ilkley Bradford Countryside Service walk {I}
25th-31st Boys Toys Working {25th-26th}; static models {27th-31st} Queen Street Mill Museum Burnley {B}
25th-31st Pennine Spring Music Festival Heptonstall {HB}
26th Bank Holiday Fun Halifax Piece Hall with free oompah band {C}
27th Sports Day Wycoller Country Park {P}
27th-31st Romeo & Juliet Northern Broadsides at Viaduct Theatre Dean Clough Halifax {C}
28th Gnome Hunt NT Gawthorpe Hall Padiham {B}
28th-31st Fungus the Bogeyman West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds
30th Shibden Restoration Guided project update; also June 27th Shibden Hall Halifax {C}
31st-June 1st Spring Craft Fair Shibden Hall Halifax {C}

JUNE

1st ‘In Steam!’ + Working models Ellenroad Steam Museum Newhey Rochdale {R}
1st Dennis Fire Engines 100th Anniversary Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum Rochdale {R}
1st Vintage Train Day Also July 6th Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}
1st ‘Race For Life’ Cancer research fun run. Also band concert Lister Park Bradford {BD}
1st Wildlife Fair Brownhill Countryside Centre Dobcross {SD}
4th The Dalesway Link Bradford to Ilkley Bradford Countryside Service walk {BD}
5th-July 7th Night Hunters Ranger Service exhibition Hollingworth Lake VC Littleborough {R}
6th Bat Walk & Talk Evening at Bracken Hall Countryside Centre Shipley Glen {BD}
6th-9th Bronte Society Weekend Haworth {HW}
7th Cleckheaton Farmers Market Held first Saturday of the month {K}
7th ‘In Living Memory’ Adult workshop looking back to the ‘70s Touchstones Rochdale {R}
8th 1940s Miners’ Gala 20th birthday at National Coal Mining Museum Wakefield {K}
8th World of Wool Crafts at Wycoller Country Park {P}
8th Sunday Steaming! Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick {BA}
8th Cragg Vale Calderdale Heritage Walk. Programme all year {HB}
9th-12th Billy Smart’s Circus Ilkley {I}
10th Meet the Gardener NT East Riddlesden Hall Keighley {HW}
10th-14th Horrible Histories Victoria Theatre Halifax {C}
11th Green Volunteering Check it out at Hollingworth Lake Visitor Centre {R}
13th-15th Fantastic Film Weekend National Media Museum Bradford {BD}
14th Halifax Gala Manor Heath Park{C}
14th Wildlife of Wycoller Wycoller Country Park {P}
14th Honley Show {HM}
14th –15th Bradford Mela Peel Park {BD}
14th–29th Refugee Week Exhibition at Halifax Art Gallery Piece Hall {C}
15th Trees and Flowers of Healey Dell {R}
15th Classic Bike Show Gawthorpe Hall Padiham {B}
16th Bikes ’n’ Burgers Evening cycle rides and BBQ for National Cycle Week Hollingworth Lake Visitor Centre {R}
16th-20th Action Calderdale Volunteers Days Do your bit for National Volunteers Week {C}
17th –19th Steam tours of the line Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Also 24th-26th {HW}
19th-July 12th Perfect Pitch John Godber’s caravan comedy Oldham Coliseum {O}
20th High Summer Stroll Evening walk and supper Brownhill Visitor Centre Dobcross Bookings only {SD}
20th –22nd Harden Moss Sheepdog Trials {HM}
tbc 21st Colne Gala {P}
21st Bradford Lord Mayor’s Parade {BD}
21st Todmorden Agricultural Show {T}
21st Dawn Solstice walks Contact Bradford Countryside Service or NT Marsden Moor {BD;NT}
21st Summer Prom Halifax Choral Society with Bradford Choral and Black Dyke Band Victoria Theatre Halifax {C}
21st-22nd Haworth 1960s Weekend {HW}
21st–August 2nd Summer exhibition Mid Pennine Arts Gallery Burnley {B}
21st-22nd Strawberry Fair Jam making at Colne Valley Museum Golcar {K}
22nd Saddleworth Show {SD}
26th A Midsummer Night’s Dream Orchestra of Opera North at Huddersfield Town Hall {K}
27th –29th 40th Anniversary Steam Gala Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}
27th– 30th Keighley Gala {HW}
28th Tapestry Demonstration Bankfield Museum and Dean Clough Halifax Part of major national exhibition Tapestry ’08. Also July 26th; August 30th; September 27th {C}
28th National Children’s Art Fun Day Touchstones Rochdale {R}
tbc 28th-29th First Hebden Bridge Brass Band Heritage Weekend {HB}
28th-29th Oldham Carnival {O}
28th-29th Teddy Bears Picnic Kirklees Light Railway {K}
28th–July 6th Diesel Event East Lancashire Railway {BY;RD;R}
28th–July 12th MELA World premiere at West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds
28th–July 13th Hebden Bridge Arts Festival {HB}
29th Burnley Park Rangers Open Day Thompson Park {B}
29th Meet the Bees Oldham Beekeepers at Brownhill Countryside Centre Dobcross {SD}
tbc Broughton Game Fair near Skipton {S}
30th–July 13th Keighley Festival {HW}

JULY

1st–13th The JULY Project! Calderdale Festival for Young People Events include the Children’s Laureate; outdoor Shakespeare; Peter Pan at the Piece Hall and Liverpool Poet Roger McGough {C}
tbc 4th-5th Trawden Garden Festival {P}
4th-6th Cleckheaton Folk Festival {K}
5th Hardcastle Crags to Marsden Moor Hard National Trust Walk Booking only {NT}
5th Annual Burnley Championship Brass Band Concert {B}
5th-27th Young Brilliance ’08 Vibrant art work from The JULY Project at Halifax Art Gallery {C}
5th–August 3rd Rossendale Schools Art Rossendale Museum Rossendale {RD}
5th–August 10th If You Go Down to the Woods Today Surreal and humorous art NT Gibson Mill Hardcastle Crags {NT}
6th Summer Open Day Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum Rochdale {R}
6th Second Annual Sponsored Walk NT Marsden Moor {NT}
6th Irish Festival Halifax Piece Hall {C}
6th In Steam! + NW Meccano Ellenroad Steam Museum Newhey Rochdale {R}
6th Oxenhope Straw Race {HW}
6th Oak Mount Mill Engine House Open Day Burnley {B}
6th–12th Holmfirth Art Week {HM}
8th–10th Great Yorkshire Show Harrogate
9th-13th Burnley Wakes Week Funfair {B}
12th The Pendle Way Wycoller Country Park walk {P}
12th Garden Party & Craft Fair NT Gawthorpe Hall Padiham {B}
12th–13th Skipton CLOGFEST! National celebration of English step dance {S}
12th–13th Caribbean Carnival {12th } and {13th} Kirklees World Music Day {K}
13th Railway Children Walk From Haworth with Bradford Countryside Services {HW}
13th The JULY Project: Battle of the Bands Grand final at the Piece Hall Halifax {C}
13th Guided Tours Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Haworth {HW}
16th–19th Jacqueline Wilson Secrets The Grand Leeds
18th Isamu Noguchi “One of the great artists of the 20th century” International exhibition opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park {K}
18th–20th Saddleworth Folk Festival Uppermill {SD}
19th–20th Bushcraft Weekend “How would you survive?” Hollingworth Lake VC {R}
19th–20th Diesel Gala Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway {S}
19th–20th Bradford Classic Car Show Centenary Square {BD}
tbc19th–August 3rd Rochdale Canal Festival {R}
19th–August 31st Eureka! Circus Halifax {C}
20th ‘Have a Go’ Art Experience Hollingworth Lake VC {R}
20th Saddleworth Pedestrians Guided walks from Brownhill Countryside Centre Dobcross {SD}
20th Sunday Steaming! Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick {BA}
22nd Castleshaw Heritage Trail NT Marsden Moor walk {NT}
25th–27th Burnley Show & Hot Air Balloon Extravaganza {B}
27th Shibden Restored Guided tour of restorations at Shibden Park Halifax {C}
29th Crafts Day Wycoller Country Park {P}
30th Hallelujah! Stories and sacred places in Hebden Bridge. Heritage Walks in Calderdale {HB}
30th Treemendous fun Kids and nature at Hollingworth Lake VC. Also family days on August 6th + 13th {R}
30th Fairytale Picnic Fancy dress nature day for 8 years and under. Bookings Brownhill Countryside Centre Dobcross {SD}

AUGUST

1st Yorkshire Day! Check for Countryside Services and National Trust walks
1st-3rd Yorkshire Weekend! Launch of month long Ilkley Summer Festival {I}
1st-10th Padiham Sports Week and Festival of Fun {B}
2nd-3rd Hebden Bridge Vintage Vehicle Rally {HB}
2nd-10th Worsthorne Arts & Crafts Fair {B}
2nd-18th Lancashire Wildlife Trust Photographic Competition Hollingworth Lake VC Littleborough {R}
3rd In Steam! Plus miniature working models Ellenroad Engine House Newhey Rochdale {R}
3rd Putting Right Rights of Way Volunteer path clearing Brownhill Countrside Centre Dobcross {SD}
3rd Country Craft Day Hollingworth Lake VC {R}
3rd Children’s Themed Day Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum Rochdale {R}
3rd Vintage Train Day Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}
4th-September 7th “Running Out of Steam” Nostalgic exhibition at Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
tbc 5th Emley Agricultural Show {HM}
5th Pond Dipping More nature activities on 12th; 19th; 26th Wycoller Country Park {P}
8th-9th Dewsbury Flower Show {K}
8th-10th Ilkley Festival Continental Market {I}
9th Halifax Agricultural Show {C}
9th-10th Wartime in Saddleworth Uppermill and Dobcross {SD}
9th-17th 40th Anniversary of the end of steam East Lancashire Railway {BY;RD;R}
tbc 10th Trawden Show Pendle {P}
10th Bancroft Mill Engine Steaming Day Barnoldswick {BA}
10th Peoples’ Park Festival Halifax {C}
10th Bingley Show {BD}
10th Guided Tours Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Haworth {HW}
13th-14th The Magic Flute Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
16th Summer Special Funday Hollingworth Lake VC {R}
16th Stream Dipping Family day at Bracken Hall Centre Shipley Glen {BD}
16th Batty Barbeque {Bring own food} NT Hardcastle Crags Hebden Bridge {NT}
16th-17th Summer Craft Fair Bankfield Museum Halifax {C}
17th Kite Day NT Marsden Moor {NT}
17th Vintage Car Rally The Piece Hall Halifax {C}
17th Countryside Day Wycoller Country Park {P}
17th Ted Hughes’ Mytholmroyd Heritage Walks in Calderdale {C}
20th Ogden Owl Discovery Day Ogden Water Halifax {C}
tbc 22nd-25th Pendle Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival {P}
23rd Bronte Way Discovery Walk Wycoller Country Park {P}
23rd Oak Mount Mill Engine House Open Day Burnley {B}
23rd-24th Dewsbury on Sea! {K}
tbc 23rd-24th Saddleworth Rushcart Festival Uppermill {SD}
23rd-31st Artsfest Standedge Tunnel Marsden {K}
24th Burnley Community Festival {B}
tbc 24th Barrowford Show {P}
24th-25th Working Days Queen Street Mill Museum Burnley {B}
24th-25th Haworth Carnival {HW}
25th First Annual Piece Hall Music Festival Halifax {C}
27th Heather on the Hills St Ives Bingley Bradford Countryside Services walk {BD}
30th Blackshawhead Traditional Village Fete Above Hebden Bridge {HB}
30th The Brontes in Pendle Wycoller Country Park {P}
30th Ancient Routes NT Marsden Moor walk {NT}
30th-2nd September Haworth Arts Festival {HW}
30th-6th September The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett at Halifax Playhouse {C}
tbc 30th-7th September Pendle Walking Festival {P}
31st Sunday Steaming! Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick {BA}
31st HAPPA Horse Rescue Open Day Briercliffe {B}
31st People’s Park Brass Band Concert Halifax {C}

SEPTEMBER

Exhibition ends September 28th Live by the Lens, Die by the Lens Complex world of film publicity National Media Museum Bradford {BD}
Ends September 28th Knitting with Wool History at Bankfield Musuem Halifax {C}
Ends October 12th Photographic Portrait Prize 2007 International exhibition The Lowry Salford Quays
2nd–6th The Aluminum Show Dance spectacular Bradford Alhambra {BD}
3rd Around The Valley Wycoller Country Park Also Boulsworth walk on 6th {P}
5th-6th Saddleworth Beer Festival Saddleworth Museum Uppermill {SD}
6th Brilliantly Batty Evening bat hunt Bookings Brownhill CC Dobcross {SD}
6th Keighley Agricultural Show {HW}
tbc 6th-7th Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing {C}
6th-October 31st The Yorkshire Boggart Festival Ogden Water Halifax {C}
7th Ackroyden Victorian industry and philanthropy Calderdale Heritage Walk Halifax {C}
7th In Steam! + Vintage cameras Ellenroad Steam Museum Newhey {R}
7th 25th Anniversary Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum Rochdale {R}
9th Moths of Healey Dell Rangers evening talk and walk {R}
9th Meet the Gardener Also 16th NT East Riddlesden Hall Keighley {HW}
10th Prehistoric Ilkley Moor Bradford Countryside Service walk {I}
11th-21st Saltaire Festival {SA}
11th-29th Schools Out! Hollingworth Lake Ranger exhibition {R}
12th Bat walk Bracken Hall CC Shipley Glen {BD}
12th-14th National Heritage Open Days Check for local free admissions including Bradford and Burnley
13th Guided towpath walk Weavers Triangle Burnley {B}
13th HOPE 2008 Free Concert Piece Hall Halifax {C}
13th-14th Steam Gala Kirklees Light Railway {K}
13th-14th Oak Mount Mill Engine House Open Day Burnley {B}
13th-14th 1940s Weekend Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway {S}
13th-28th SOUTH PENNINES WALK & RIDE FESTIVAL 100+ events; area wide programme due June
14th Family history day Standedge Visitor Centre Marsden {K}
14th Historic Vehicle Cavalcade Queen Street Mill {B}
14th Littleborough Heritage Walk Rochdale Countryside Service {R}
14th Burnley Heritage and Woodland Festival {B}
14th Bancroft Mill Engine Steaming Day Barnoldswick {BA}
14th Guided tours of the line Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}
14th Vintage Transport Gathering East Lancashire Railway {BY}
14th Ancient and Modern Routes over Standedge Hard walk from Brownhill CC Dobcross {SD}
17th-21st Chinese State Circus Peel Park Bradford {BD}
20th The Big Quiz National Trust quiz evening Bookings only East Riddlesden Hall Keighley {HW}
20th The Regiment at Shibden Park Civil war encampment Halifax {C}
20th-21st Steam Gala Weekend Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway {S}
20th-21st Saltaire Continental Market {SA}
21st-27th Bite The Mango Film Festival National Media Museum Bradford {BD}
27th Tapestry Demonstration Day Bankfield Museum Halifax {C}
27th A Walk on the Wild Side Wycoller Country Park {P}
27th-28th Let’s Walk the Todmorden Centenary Way Calderdale Wildside two stage walk {T}
27th-28th Holmfirth Food & Drink Festival {HM}
28th Meet the Butler NT Gawthorpe Hall Padiham {B}
28th Fungi Foray NT Hardcastle Crags Also October 4th Bookings only {NT}
28th Harvest Festival Piece Hall Halifax {C}
27th-October 30th Stitch and Sketch Local art and embroidery at Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
30th Kate Rusby “Key figure in England’s reinvigorated folk scene.” Burnley Mechanics {B}
tbc Mersey Basin Week Hollingworth Lake VC Littleborough {R}

OCTOBER

Exhibition ends October 26th Shetland Solstice Herd NT Gibson Mill Hardcastle Crags {NT}
Ends November 2nd Rossendale Artists Rossendale Museum Rawtenstall {RD}
Ends November 9th Halifax Art Society Annual Exhibition Bankfield Museum Halifax {C}
3rd-19th Ilkley Literature Festival {I}
4th-November 9th REVEAL Advanced textile students Bankfield Museum Halifax {C}
4th-5th Rural Rossendale Walking Festival On a foodie theme for ‘Taste of Lancashire 08’ {RD}
5th White Rose Car Rally Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway. Bus Rally on 12th {S}
5th In Steam! + Saddleworth Clod Dancers Ellenroad Steam Museum Newhey {R}
5th Todmorden changes Heritage Walks in Calderdale. Check for new winter programme {T}
5th Fun with Fungi Wycoller Country Park {P}
5th Fruit and Fungi, Foray for Fun From Brownhill CC Dobcross {SD}
5th 60th Anniversary Land Rover Rally Piece Hall Halifax {C}
9th–10th CO-OP Young Film Makers Festival National Media Museum Bradford {BD}
9th–11th Continental Market Keighley {HW}
10th The Lancashire Hotpots Burnley Mechanics {B}
10th-12th Steam Gala Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}
10th-12th Marsden Jazz Festival including Standedge Tunnel events 11th-12th; NT Marsden Moor Jazz walk 11th and Duck Race 12th {K;NT}
11th Winter Containers Workshop {+ Wildflower Planting 21st} Manor Heath Park Halifax {C}
11th-November 9th Landscape Watch Art workshops exhibition Brownhill CC Dobcross {SD}
12th World of Wood Day Wycoller Country Park {P}
12th Vintage Tractor Run Manorlands Fundraiser {HW}
12th Sunday Steaming! Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick {BA}
18th Feed the Birds Activity Day Ogden Water Countryside Centre Halifax {C}
18th-19th Diesel Weekend East Lancashire Railway {RD}
21st-22nd Holiday Activities NT East Riddlesden Hall {HW}

21st-25th Northern Ballet Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Alhambra Theatre Bradford {BD}
22nd –28th Ted Hughes Festival 10th anniversary of poet’s death Mytholmroyd {HB}
24th-26th Beer & Music Weekend Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}
25th-26th Steam Theme Weekend East Lancashire Railway {RD;R;BY}
25th-26th Autumn Complementary Medicine Festival Ilkley {I}
25th-26th Haworth Halloween Weekend {HW}
26th Halloween Ghost Train Thompson Park Burnley {B}
26th Halloween Happenings NT Gawthorpe Hall Padiham {B}
26th Nocturnal Bus Rally Piece Hall Halifax {C}
26th Spooky Shibden Park Trail {C}
26th End of Season Plant Sale NT Marsden Moor {NT}
28th Halloween Lights Wycoller Country Park {P}
28th-29th Events at Manor Heath Park Halifax {C}
28th-30th Half Term Fun Queen Street Textile Mill Museum Burnley {B}
30th Spooky Family Crafts Brownhill CC Dobcross Bookings {SD}
30th-31st Wildflower Planting Help out at Shibden Park {30th} and Centre Vale Park {31st} Todmorden {C;T}
31st Rochdale Town Hall Guided Tour Phone to check {R}
31st Jack’O’Lantern Scary walk at NT Hardcastle Crags Bookings only “Fancy dress recommended” {NT}
31st Halloween Lantern Procession Ogden Water Halifax {C}
31st-November 2nd Halloween Ghost Trains Kirklees Light Railway {K}
tbc Halloween in Pendle Events at Pendle Heritage Centre Barrowford {P}

NOVEMBER

Exhibition ends December 23rd Natural Curiousity Natural world at Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
Exhibition ends January 4th Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War Family exhibition Imperial War Museum North Manchester
2nd In Steam! Ellenroad Engine House Milnrow {R}
2nd Steaming Day Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick {BA}
2nd Final 2008 canal trips Standedge Tunnel Marsden {K}
3rd-15th Cabaret Wilkommen to The Grand Leeds
9th to December 21st 90 Stories Revisited 90 Burnley men who served in the Great War Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
12th-15th BAF Bradford Animation Festival National Media Museum {BD}
13th Burnley Christmas Lights Switch On {B}
15th A Walk in the Forest of Trawden Wycoller Country Park {P}
15th-16th Scroggling the Holly Procession Launch of Haworth Victorian Christmas {HW}
21st Padiham Christmas Lights Switch On {B}
21st-30th Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival {K}
22nd Christmas Lights Switch On and Ice Rink Opens! Piece Hall Halifax {C}
22nd Winter Tree ID Bookings only workshop at Ogden Water Countryside Centre Halifax {C}
22nd-23rd Haworth Masquerade Weekend {HW}
23rd Christmas Fair Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
23rd Last Steaming Day 2008 Bancroft Mill Engine Barnoldswick {BA}
28th Rochdale Town Hall Guided Tour Phone to check {R}
29th-30th Pipes, Bows & Bells Weekend Haworth {HW}
tbc British Watercolour Society Exhibition Ilkley {I}

DECEMBER

Check at TICs for carol concerts; craft fairs; winter walks and Victorian shopping days. Plus Santa specials on our vintage railways (see phone timetables and book ahead!).

1st-5th Towneley Hall at Christmas Tours and lunches Also 10th-11th Bookings Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
4th Christmas Evening–Victorian Lantern Show Queen Street Mill Museum Burnley {{B}
4th-7th Bradford Christmas Market {BD}
4th-7th NADFAS Flower Show Prestigious national event at Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
5th-7th Christmas Craft Fair Shibden Hall Halifax {C}
6th-7th Haworth Panto Weekend {HW}
7th In Steam! Plus Christmas fair at Ellenroad Engine House Milnrow {R}
7th Moor Mince Pies NT Marsden Moor walk {NT}
7th Dazzling decorations Manor Heath Park Halifax {C}
7th Santa Express Thompson Park Burnley {B}
7th Christmas Carols & Crafts Wycoller Country Park {P}
8th Carol Concert Also NSPCC Concert on 9th Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
13th-14th Haworth Torchlight Weekend {HW}
13th-14th Santa at Ogden Water Halifax {C}
14th HAPPA Horse Rescue Christmas Fair Briercliffe Burnley {B}
14th Santa Comes to Towneley Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
14th Santa at Shibden Shibden Hall Halifax {C}
tbc Light up a Life Pendleside Hospice fundraiser Burnley {B}
15th-17th Christmas Concerts Towneley Hall Burnley {B}
20th Christmas Carols NT Gibson Mill Hardcastle Crags {NT}
20th-21st Haworth Nativity Weekend {HW}
21st Christmas at Shibden Hall Music, stories and tradition {C}
21st Mythomroyd ‘Walkers are Welcome’ Two walks – see Calderdale Wildside programme {HB}
24th Tolling the Devil’s Knell Dewsbury Minster {K}
24th Evening Carols in the Square Hebden Bridge {HB}
26th Christmas Pudding Burner NT Marsden Moor walk {NT}
26th Mince Pie Specials Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway {S}
26th Boxing Day Bash Ogden Water Calderdale Wildside programme {H}
26th-January 1st Mince Pie Specials + Real ale Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}

EARLY 2009

NEW YEAR’S DAY Specials on KWVR and Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railways {HW; S}
To January 31st Peter Pan Musical play Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds
To February 1st Cinderella Alhambra Theatre Bradford {BD}
tbc Viennese New Year Concert Celebrating 150 years, the Halle Orchestra St Georges Hall Bradford {C}
15th Help to Conserve the Reserve Volunteer action with Calderdale Countryside Service {C} Also area–wide Countryside Services seasonal walks and events
18th Merrydale NT Marsden Moor walk {NT}
24th-25th Big Park Bird Watch Shibden Park Halifax + RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch 2009 events regionwide {C}
30th Rochdale Town Hall Guided Tour Phone to check {R}
FEBRUARY tbc 1st Imbolc Fire Festival Celtic early spring festival Marsden {K}
tbc 1st First Steaming Day 2009! Ellenroad Steam Museum Rochdale {R}
tbc 7th Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra Huddersfield Town Hall {K}
14th-15th Gala Weekend Keighley & Worth Valley Railway {HW}
14th-May 4th Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection Celebrating the 60th birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales Manchester Art Gallery
tbc late February/early March Bradford International Film Festival National Media Museum {BD}