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Out & About
What's happening in the Worth and Aire Valley. We aim to highlight the best indoor and outdoor activities and events in the area.
Eating Out
Reviews and advertorials of the best places to eat in the area. From cream teas to chicken tikka masala we have informative and entertaining guides on a monthly basis.
Pubs, Clubs & Entertainment
Advertorials and reviews of pubs in the Worth and Aire Valley. Real ale, pub grub and the best entertainment on offer.
Shops & Services
Butcher, Baker or Candlestick Maker, this page will give you a glimpse of what's going on behind the scenes with profiles of local traders and businesses.
Out & About
“…It all started when Jevgenia’s exercise
and dance class from Haworth went on an overnight excursion to the Dales. While enjoying the break in the countryside one of the dance class members, Sarah Granby, picked up the Grassington Calendar Boys 2011 calendar....."
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www.haworthcalendar.co.uk/
“…Fall Fest is the brainchild of retired teacher Sue Ingham. She and a team of dedicated people in the community, including Jason Smith and Katie Johnson, have pulled all the stops out to put on this inaugural event. The aim is to showcase the amazing talent that exists in Glusburn, Crosshills and the surrounding villages...."
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http://www.fallfest.co.uk
Keighley - Beer Festival - 22nd to 24th Sept 2011
“…The local branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) organises 2 beer festivals a year. Keighley Beer Festival is approaching it's 23rd year at the end of September at Victoria Hall, the other is the relatively new Skipton Beer Festival held in Spring. This year's Keighley festival will be featuring at least 10 different porters..."
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www.keighleyandcravencamra. org.uk
“…The local branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) organises 2 beer festivals a year. Keighley Beer Festival is approaching it's 23rd year at the end of September at Victoria Hall, the other is the relatively new Skipton Beer Festival held in Spring. This year's Keighley festival will be featuring at least 10 different porters..."
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www.keighleyandcravencamra. org.uk
“…Fairtrade Bradford would like to gather all the district's decorated bunting for a mass photo at 2pm on Saturday, 12th March on Darley Street, Bradford..."
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www.fairtrade.org.uk/
“…This was my first visit to this excellent theatre and I was immediately impressed with the friendly atmosphere. This was clearly a regular haunt for many people judging by the familiarity between staff and customers in the bar. The theatre on Devonshire Street is much larger than I expected..."
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www.keighleyplayhouse.co.uk
“…The best way to get into shooting is to join an NSRA (National Smallbore Rifle Association) recognised club where you can learn to shoot safely using club equipment and receive coaching to help you improve. Fortunately the Aire and Worth valleys are well served by Keighley Rifle club situated in the old Parkwood Quarry at the top of Saint Paul’s Road. ..."
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www. keighleyrifleclub.co.uk
“…will take place on Saturday 4th September 2010 at the King George V Playing Fields (part of the Marley Sports Centre complex) situated off Aireworth Road Keighley, BD21 4DB. This year will see a completely re-vamped Show, with a much more user-friendly field layout to enable all visitors to see every part of the Show with ease..."
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“…A flock of Worth Valley Young Farmers recently gathered at the Keighley Arts Factory to participate in the Shorn Sheep project, an initiative to bring businesses together with community groups and to consider the importance of creativity in society.."
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“…It’s a well warn cliché but Oakworth Methodist Church is situated right in the heart of the village and the village is right at the heart of all it does. The church is celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year – 50 years since the vast Wesleyan Methodist Church was demolished and the present modern, multi-purpose building rose in its place..."
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“…If you do nothing else in July, be in Oxenhope on Sunday 5th to witness, or even take part in, the Oxenhope Straw Race. This epitome of British eccentricity, a unique festival of fancy dress, physical prowess and ... er ... beer drinking, will once again grace the roads of Oxenhope on that day, and its 400 participants will shed sweat and tears (but hopefully not blood) to complete the course, entertain the crowds with costumes and capers and, most importantly, raise a lot of money for charity..….”
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“…The dining room in Haworth Parsonage is the room where the Brontë sisters wrote their famous books. Every night, after their father had gone to bed, the sisters would walk, one after the other, around the dining table late into the nightdiscussing their work….”
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“…Keighley “Just Ride” CyKle Club began in October 2006 and has been going from strength to strength since then, with over 130 member riders. It has recently achieved Go Ride status from British Cycling; this position is awarded to clubs who have achieved set standards for junior members.….”
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“…As I write I can’t believe it’s nearly time for this years Festival, and like last year I’m still complaining about the weather! Oh well, we’ll carry on regardless hoping for a few sunny days to shine on our Festival, and if not, well we’ll blooming well enjoy ourselves anyway! First off though, a question, what’s in a name? Not enough the Haworth Arts Group decided, so instead of Haworth Arts Festival, you can now call us Haworth Arts & Music Festival.….”
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“…It was at 2.35 pm on Saturday 29 June 1968 that the Reopening Special was flagged away from Keighley station up the steep gradients of the Worth Valley branch to Ingrow, Damems, Oakworth, Haworth and Oxenhope. Never before had a group of railway enthusiasts succeeded in reopening a complete, full size branch line – and when the society had been formed in 1962 after closure of the line, many said the task was impossible..….”
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“…Passing along the cobbles of Church Street it’s easy to overlook the old building hunched between Church and Parsonage; but Haworth’s Old School Room is as important in local history as its more famous neighbours. Built by Patrick Brontë, and taught at by all his children, the school opened in the summer of 1832, to provide instruction to weekday scholars in the three R’s, alongside various domestic craft skills of the day.….”
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“…Each year, Haworth West Lane Baptist A.O.S. stages one of the Gilbert and Sullivan Comic Operas. Our producer, Michael Lofthouse, is well known in the area for his innovative settings, stretching
the traditional view of the Savoy Operas.….”
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“…All this rain make's it feel like we're still waiting for the summer to start!
But healthy attendances to last years Haworth Arts Festival, which took place in a downpour,
showed that Yorkshire folk don't let a bit of rain put them off getting out and enjoying themselves.….”
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“…Local legend has it that the unwed will find a mate within ‘a year and a day’ if they crawl through the narrow crevice in the large boulder of the Kirk. Penistone Crag of “Wuthering Heights” is based on
Ponden Kirk.….”
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“….St Michael’s has a peal of six bells installed with money raised by Patrick Brontë in 1845. After a period of disuse in the sixties and seventies, the bells were overhauled and rehung in 1988 and there has been a band of ringers ever since. Unfortunately, we are now so short of ringers that there is a danger that the Brontë bells will again fall silent….”
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“…In October 2005, after more than a year’s effort, Haworth and Machu Picchu were twinned. As far as we know this was the first twinning between Peru and the UK….”
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"...It was five years ago when a small group of dedicated Haworth traders and individuals in the community banded together to gain Fairtrade Village status for our cobbled country village.
At that point, few were familiar with the Fairtrade Foundation, the non-government organisation that campaigns for a fairer playing field for farmers and their families in the developing world..."
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"...The railway is justifiably proud that its painstaking attention to detail pays off so handsomely. It is a railway for all seasons, where winter visitors can see the stations bathed in gaslight and warm themselves in front of the coal fires in the waiting rooms. In summer, the station gardens are alive with blooms. ...."
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"...Painting a piece of pottery, sipping a cappuccino, and socialising with friends in a relaxed environment is a wonderful way to spend a few hours in the week.
You can do all of this and more in the friendly new art café, Cobbles & Clay, situated in the heart of Haworth's main street...."
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"... Depending on the time of your walk, the moor will be busy with grouse, skylarks, lapwings and the ever changing colours of the heather... "
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