Horbury Archives - Wakefield Historical Society https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/tag/horbury/ Promoting knowledge of the area's past Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:01:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Talk: ‘Playmakers – Horbury’s Sports specialists https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/talk-playmakers-horburys-sports-specialists-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=talk-playmakers-horburys-sports-specialists-2 https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/talk-playmakers-horburys-sports-specialists-2/#respond Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:01:34 +0000 https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/?p=5022 Talk: Playmakers – Horbury’s sports specialists Wednesday 10 July 2.30pm – 3.30pm Wakefield Museum Learning Zone Free – booking required. For 100 years, Horbury was a centre of high tech, high quality sports manufacturing. This…

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]]> https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/talk-playmakers-horburys-sports-specialists-2/feed/ 0 ‘The Life and Times of James Scott, a Deaf Mill worker’ https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/the-life-and-times-of-james-scott-a-deaf-mill-worker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-life-and-times-of-james-scott-a-deaf-mill-worker https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/the-life-and-times-of-james-scott-a-deaf-mill-worker/#respond Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:34:47 +0000 https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/?p=4422 An interesting Zine about James Scott, (1829-1912), a deaf man who lived and worked in Horbury, has been written and published by Gill Crawshaw. It reflects on disabilities and abilities in a historical context, and…

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]]> https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/the-life-and-times-of-james-scott-a-deaf-mill-worker/feed/ 0 Celebration at Horbury for the birth of John Carr in 1723 https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/celebration-of-the-birth-of-john-carr-at-horbury/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebration-of-the-birth-of-john-carr-at-horbury https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/celebration-of-the-birth-of-john-carr-at-horbury/#respond Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:38:35 +0000 https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/?p=4229 Announcement of an upcoming celebration weekend for the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Carr, architect of St Peter’s Church and one of Horbury’s most famous sons. The programme of events, put together in…

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