Exhibitions and Events at the museum

 

We are delighted to announce that the brand new exhibition in the Terry Sutton Gallery at Calderdale Industrial Museum will be an exhibition featuring the work of Sue Cordingley. It’s title is “Tales from the River – an exhibition of artworks and river finds”. Sue describes herself as an artist -maker, but she is so much more than that. Her walks along the Calder and Ryburn river banks where she finds ‘little treasures’ that she not only turns into unique assemblages but also researches where and who made them. Handmade books then record her findings. Nature journals of the plants she sees document the local flora. Models made from recycled card are inspired by local pubs and buildings. She is also the illustrator for the children’s books The Dragons of Wainhouse Tower.
The exhibition opens on Saturday 15th March 2025, and runs until 17th May 2025.
All are welcome, with admission for adults £7.50, concessions £6.00 and free entry for accompanied children.
We are open every Saturday 10am to 4pm, and also open on Thursdays in the Calderdale schools holidays. Don’t forget to visit our cafe and shop while you are here.

Calderdale Industrial Museum Association Talks 2025

We have member talks at the museum every month. Here is some information about the upcoming talks in March, May and June 2025 .Doors open at 7pm, with the talk starting at 7.30pm. All are welcome.
There is free entry to members of Calderdale Industrial Museum Association, with a £5 charge for visitors. Tea/coffee/biscuits is available for a small donation.

If you would like to become a member of Calderdale Industrial Museum Association and enjoy free entry to the museum, free entry to talks and invitations to special events, please click HERE for further information, or contact the museum. Membership is £15 for one, or £23 for two people at one address.

Our next talk, on 19th March, will be Stamping my Feet for a Living by Alison Sheddon, one of our volunteers. She has spent most of her working life at Crossleys and now at Avena Carpets, punching the cards for their new designs of quality, narrow-loom Wilton and Brussels carpets. She literally ‘turns art into carpets’! The illustration shown here and used for the poster is of Joyce, one of Alison’s fellow team members.

Philip Hellawell will be returning on 21st May to talk about The Halifax High-Level Railway – North Bridge to Parkinson Lane by steam train. You might remember that he mentioned this line from Holmfield to St Paul’s [which opened in 1890 and closed to passengers in 1917] briefly at his last talk to us in September 2024. The 10 arch, 100 feet high stone viaduct at Wheatley remains and has just been refurbished at a cost of £1.2m.

So far in 2025, our talks have included Halifax Diamonds by Bryan Harkness, and The Making of Sowerby Bridge by Julian Carr. Both talks were extremely popular, the latter particularly so as it was the first time it had ever been given. Unfortunately we had to turn several people away. As a result, those who missed Julian’s talk first time around will get a second chance when he repeats the talk for us on Wednesday 11th June 2025.

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. Privacy Policy        Cookie Policy            Accessibility        Terms             Like us on Facebook  Twitter and  Instagram