Information from Wakefield Museums and Castles: Volunteer Talk: Thomas of Lancaster – saint or sinner? (16+) Pontefract Castle, Pontefract, WF8 1QH Sunday 23rd March 2025 Thomas of Lancaster has often been viewed as a venerated…
Saturday 5th April 2025 from 9.30 am to 4.45 pm. The Auditorium, Creative Arts Centre, York St John University, Lord Mayor’s Walk, York, YO31 7EX. Information from the YAHS: In recent years there has been…
Information from South Leeds Archaeology: On Sunday 12th Jan. at 2pm there will be a Memorial Service for the Gosforth Pit Disaster at Middleton Colliery at St. Mary’s Church, Town Street, Middleton. Twenty Five men…
Centenary celebration at the Town Hall on 14th December The final meeting of our Centenary year was held at the Town Hall on Saturday which was where the founding meeting of our Society was held…
The very first Minute of the Society records the founding on the 19th December 1924, at a meeting in the Town Hall. Hear all about it, same venue this 14th December.. https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/whs-events/lecture-programme/
Information from Wakefield Socialist History Group: REMEMBERING THE MINERS’ STRIKE 1pm to 4pm, Satruday 7 December at the Red Shed, 18 Vicarage St S, Wakefield WF1 1QX Forty years on, we have three speakers who…
Wakefield Market 1981 Richard Bell The Centre is delighted to be showing Richard Bell’s Wakefield Market, 1981, an acrylic on canvas painting, 5′ by 2′, of a bustling market in the autumn of 1981. In…
Information from South Leeds Archaeology The next meeting of South Leeds Archaeology is Thursday 7pm 21st November at the Rothwell Hub, Marsh Street, Rothwell, LS260AE. Phil Jones will talk about the South Leeds Boat Club…
Did you go on marches, sit-ins, and other protests in the 1960s and 70s? A chance to share your memories. Red Shed, Wakefield Labour Club, 18 Vicarage Street WF1 1QX. 2nd November 1-5pm.
Joseph Aspdin’s patent of Portland Cement. Our second meeting in October is on the 23rd celebrating the bicentenary of the patent of Portland cement by Joseph Aspdin. This will be in the Kingswood Suite at…