Life’s Spinning Song
Life’s Spinning Song is a collection of songs about the Cragg Vale Coiners in the fictional voices of the coiners and their contemporaries. The collection… Read More »Life’s Spinning Song
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Exhibition Closure – October 2025 Preserving the Past, Powered by the People: Heptonstall Museum’s Community-Led Future
Having successfully reopened Heptonstall Museum in 2023 as a volunteer-managed organisation, there will be a temporary closure of the main exhibition space for renovation work. … Read More »Exhibition Closure – October 2025 Preserving the Past, Powered by the People: Heptonstall Museum’s Community-Led Future
Ink & Artefacts: Creative Story Telling Workshop
This May, Heptonstall artefacts amassed upstairs, in Hebden Bridge Town Hall: glass bottles,books, images of religious relics and ghosts, a century-old photograph album, a Toby… Read More »Ink & Artefacts: Creative Story Telling Workshop
Ink & Tapestry: Poetry Workshop
Thank you to our guest blog from Sammy Weaver and all who participated in our Ink & Tapestry June workshop. On a drizzly Heptonstall morning,… Read More »Ink & Tapestry: Poetry Workshop
Ink and Artefacts: Heptonstall’s Living Tapestry
Heptonstall Museum has received funding from Culturedale (Calderdale Council’s Year of Culture campaign) to deliver an ambitious programme of creative workshops and community history, culminating… Read More »Ink and Artefacts: Heptonstall’s Living Tapestry
The Origins and Influences of Halloween
Halloween is upon us; it is in the shops front and centre, and it will be at our doors in a matter of days. It… Read More »The Origins and Influences of Halloween
Support us
There’s a number of ways to support our fundraising – you can become a ‘Friend‘, shop online using ‘EasyFunding‘ and now there’s a chance to… Read More »Support us
Community Workshops
Now we have been successful in securing the village museum as a community asset, we want to know what ideas you have for our first… Read More »Community Workshops
Yorkshire Post – News Item – 8 July 2022
Following our ‘Waiting for Wesley’ open day success, we received press coverage which can be viewed online https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/yorkshires-the-gallows-pole-village-of-heptonstall-ready-to-share-fascinating-history-as-volunteers-re-open-museum-3759382
Can you offer a helping hand?
We need volunteers like you! Our museum is managed by volunteers. If you have a little or a lot of availability, we can offer a… Read More »Can you offer a helping hand?