Nearly September and, as always, Heritage Open Days in our area are offering a wide selection of events, with many venues opening especially. Walks are available around Stanley Royd Hospital, Wakefield Parks, the bridges at…
Heritage Open Days 12th – 21st September Although the Heritage Open Days are well over a month away, it is worth seeing what is available so far, and book the visits that particularly interest you.…
Theatre Royal Wakefield’s Heritage Open Day 8 September Information from the Theatre: On Sunday 8 September we are hosting a Heritage Open Day event and opening our doors to the public as part of our 130 year…
Leeds Minster, Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ, September 1st, 8th and 15th at 12.1pm. For the Heritage Open Days 2024 festival of heritage and culture, Leeds Minster has organised a special series of illustrated lectures which will…
Westgate HAZ day at West Yorkshire History Centre for Heritage Open Days on Thursday 15 Sept WHS are holding this Open Day jointly with West Yorkshire Archive Service, aimed at showing what information our Research…
Wakefield Historical Society are providing an hour of short talks about Westgate on Saturday 11 September at Unity Hall Westgate, 1.30 – 2.30 pm. There will also be a display by the Society about the…
Our President, Pam Judkins, talks to Kevin Trickett, President of Wakefield Civic Society about the history of Wakefield Historical Society, our present research into Westgate, and the John Goodchild Collection. Part of a series of…
An interesting showcase of films about Wakefield heritage, compiled by Wakefield Civic Society. It includes a film about George Gissing and the Gissing Centre describing his life there and his future renown as a novelist:…
Wakefield Civic Society plan to host a series of short films exploring parts of Wakefield’s heritage in a Heritage Open Days Showcase which is available now – but most of the films that they are…