Haworth and Stanbury

Jens Hislop

Tel 01535 644444

jensandrea@blueyonder.co.uk

Friday: Ladies badminton, Haworth Community Centre, 1.30pm to 4pm. It costs £1 for the afternoon session. No racket needed. Contact Barbara Clayton on 01535 644330 or Anne Park on 01535 606040.

Live band The 309s, Black Bull, Main Street, in the evening.

Steampunk weekend by Haworth Village Association, with music and entertainment, fashion, tea duelling, steam trains and burlesque night at the Parkside Social Club.

Horse and pony tales, creative writing workshop, Vale Mill Lane Stables, 10.30am to 2pm. Cost £10, including lunch. Proceeds to Haworth Riding for the Disabled. E-mail glynischarlton@gmail.com or kfarknippa@hotmail.com, or call 07884 478912.

Saturday: Book Point, a Christian book shop, Hall Green Church, 1pm to 4pm. Call 01535 649154.

Steampunk gig night, Parkside Social Club, featuring Emmott And The Folkestra, Ferocious Dog and The Psycho Surgeons. Call 01535 643800 for tickets.

Steampunk fairs, Community Centre and West Lane Methodist Church. The Steampunk Festival ends on Sunday.

Homemade craft and gift fair, Old School Room, 10am to 4pm. Visit haworthcraftfairs.co.uk for details.

Sunday: Church Services – Stanbury Church, holy communion, 9.30am; Haworth Parish Church, family communion, 10.45am; West Lane Baptist Church, joint morning service with Methodists, 10.30am, led by John Hopkinson, no evening service; West Lane Methodist Church, no service; Hall Green Baptist Chapel, morning worship, 10.30am, evening service, 6pm; Our Lady of Lourdes, holy mass, 10am; FERN Christian Fellowship meet in the Methodist Church Hall, 6.30pm.

Homemade craft and gift fair, Old School Room, 10am to 4pm. Visit haworthcraftfairs.co.uk for details.

Monday: Children’s karate class, 6pm to 7.30pm, Parkside Social Club. Contact Stuart on 01535 210249 or 07749 075305 for further information.

Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council meeting, West Lane Baptist Church, 7pm.

Tuesday: FERN Christian Fellowship, Methodist Church Hall, 6.30 pm.

Wednesday: Sequence dancing with bar, Parkside Social Club, 8pm to 10.30pm. Admission free for your first trial visit, then £2.50 (£2 for club members). Contact Geoff on 01535 647675 or Catherine on 01535 645375 for further information.

Haworth West Lane Baptist Amateur Operatic Society is performing its annual Gilbert And Sullivan production, a double bill of Trial By Jury and HMS Pinafore, from tonight until Saturday. Tickets cost £10 for adults and £5 for children, with £8 tickets for the over-60s for the Saturday matinée. Contact Vera Waddington on 01535 643425. Tonight and tomorrow are sold out, but there may be tickets remaining for both Saturday performances.

Are you aged 50-plus and live in the Worth Valley? Have you ever wondered how you can use the internet to connect with people? Worth Connecting could help. This is an innovative free project that supports older people to become more independent, reduce loneliness and improve confidence and wellbeing. Worth Connecting provides one-to-one tuition on loaned devices with a qualified IT tutor who will visit you at home. Contact Midge Driver on 01535 665258 or 07932 762603.

The Welcome Project runs a self-help computer group at the Wuthering Heights Inn in Stanbury on Mondays from 1pm to 3pm, and the Parkside Social Club from 6pm to 8pm. Take your own tablet, laptop or phone, though the project does have some laptops available to use. Call 01535 665258 or 647675.

Haworth ghost and graveyard walks take place every Saturday until December 13. Tour the historic graveyard at Haworth Parish Church. Visit haworthghosttours.co.uk or call 07906 242819 for more details.

Haworth Senior Citizens meet each Wednesday at West Lane Methodist Church at 2pm. Last week they had a quiz based on wedding trivia, followed by tea and biscuits. Next week there is an outing to the Wetherby Whaler at Guiseley and the garden centre at Otley. Contact Doreen Robinson on 01535 648928 for further information.

Stanbury and District Women’s Institute’s last speaker was Philip Corrigan, who surprised members by telling of the brutal murder of an Edwardian mill girl about 100 years ago in Eccleshill. He has extensively researched the background and events because he believes himself to be her re-incarnation, and his story has been reported in national newspapers and on television.

The Community Contact Point at 28 Changegate, Haworth, is open noon to 4pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. It is asking for volunteers to help distribute the bi-monthly parish council newsletter. Copies are free and are available from the Contact Point or the haworth-village.org.uk website. The Contact Point has a range of personal alarms, safe cans and a range of free road safety information, activity books, comics and stickers, and free low-energy light bulbs. The Contact Point collects used computer printer ink cartridges, old mobile phones and low-energy light bulbs, which can be recycled for the benefit of Manorlands hospice. E-mail wvcontactpoint@yahoo.co.uk or contact co-ordinator Margaret Smith on 01535 644001 for further information.

Haworth Parish Church hosts morning prayer in St James’ Church, Cross Roads, on Mondays at 9.30am, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays at St Michael’s Church, Haworth, at 9.30am. Midweek Holy Communion is held in St James’ Church on Wednesdays at 9.30am. Baptism enquiries for the Cross Roads Cum Lees and Haworth Parishes are held on the first Saturday of each month at 9.30am at St James’ Church. Wedding enquiries are held on the second Monday of each month at St Michael and All Angels at 7pm. Contact the Rev Peter Mayo-Smith on 01535 648464 for baptisms and wedding enquiries. Contact Diane Wilson on 01535 674972 for prayer requests and transport to church. Contact the churchwardens, Diane and Peter Breed, on 01535 646873 for other matters. Contact Jens Hislop on 01535 644444 for church archive enquiries. The Rev Peter Mayo-Smith has responsibility for the Upper Worth Valley Church of England parishes, which comprises Cross Roads Cum Lees and Haworth, which includes St Gabriel’s Church at Stanbury.

Worth Valley First Responders are local volunteers trained by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, who respond to local emergency calls. Their aim is to assist and treat people who need assistance from the ambulance service until their care can be handed over to an ambulance crew. More responders are needed now. Contact Tracy Laycock on 07908 212455 for further information.

Haworth Riding For the Disabled is asking for voluntary help for a couple of hours each week on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday mornings, from 10am to noon, or on Saturdays from 9.15am to 1.25pm. Full training, insurance and unlimited tea and coffee will be given. Call 01535 649448.

Haworth and Worth Valley Rotary Club meets at Newsholme Manor for a meal on Tuesdays at 8pm. They have moved from the Old Silent at Stanbury. They usually have a guest speaker. The Rotarians have recently been running a ‘contact the elderly’ project. This is to invite the elderly to afternoon teas once a month on a Sunday afternoon. The organiser, Hilary Wharton, is seeking some volunteer drivers to help. Call 01535 647531 for more details. They would only be required three or four times a year to drive, mainly in the Haworth area. Visit haworthrotary.org or contact Duncan and Pat Clark on 01535 643792 for further information about Haworth Rotary.

Sequence dancing at Haworth Parkside Social Club, Butt Lane, Haworth, is every Wednesday from 8pm to 10.30pm. Live music and bar. It is a marvellous sociable group for all ages. Contact Geoff on 01535 647675 or Catherine on 01535 645375.

Chess club is on Thursdays, beginners to advanced. We are looking for people to join teams for snooker, dominoes (3s and 5s) and pool, including a new ladies team. No need to be an expert; beginners are very welcome, but a sense of humour will come in handy! Supper is provided for players. Pool for beginners and improvers, 5pm onwards (new players welcome). Entrance free. Call 643470.