Christmas at the museum
It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas at Calderdale Industrial Museum! Come along and follow our new elf trail around the building, buy unique Christmas presents in our lovely shop and pop into our cafe. We will be open on Saturdays 7th and 14th December 2024 with our volunteers guiding visitors around our floor floors of fascinating exhibits and demonstrating our working looms and machines. We close then for Christmas and New Year to allow our volunteers a well-earned rest, and reopen on Saturday 4th January 2024.
Halloween competition winner !
Congratulations to Faye West, the winner of the children’s competition held in the Museum over half term week. She is shown here being presented with her prize by volunteer Janet Ashton. Pumpkins were hidden around the Museum, and Faye successfully found them all. She won a mystery Halloween themed prize.
Yorkshire through Lens and Brush
– A Respective of Photographs and Artwork by Terry Sutton
Terry Sutton has been capturing the changing lives and scenery of West Yorkshire for more than sixty years. We are delighted to present a retrospective of his vast output of photographs, sketches and paintings. In the 1970’s he began a series of illustrations based on photographs of the relentlessly changing industrial landscapes of what was once the “industrial West Riding”. Cinemas, chapels, railway stations, warehouses, mills and other buildings were abandoned and left for years to fall into dereliction. To many, these once important servants of our communities became eyesores, for Terry, the textures, colours and strange beauty provided inspiration for his first book, Yesterday’s Yorkshire – A Celebration of the Industrial West Riding published in 2001. His second book Hard Graft – Yorkshire at Work pays tribute to Yorkshire’s rich heritage of craftmanship and industrial achievement. 
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