Writers Like George Gissing Paint Pictures with Words Much of his novel, ‘A Life’s Morning’, is set in Dunfield, a town which bears a remarkable similarity to his childhood home of Wakefield, and he describes…
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…
The Gissing Centre was open for the January 25th Artwalk with a preview of the Westgate booklets which have been researched, written and produced by Wakefield Historical Society Research Group as part of their contribution to…
West Yorkshire History Centre 28th September, Friends of Waterton’s Wall As part of this month’s Artwalk Wakefield, Helen Riddle will be presenting a work-in-progress of her forthcoming exhibition, A Stitch in Time, at the West…