A new performance featuring Catherine Salt, wife of Titus Salt Junior and her butler Gregory. Explore life in service, rules of etiquette, life upstairs and downstairs, Royal Visit to Milner Field and Titus Salt Junior’s sad demise. Joanne Crowther and Adrian Slater play the key characters, with wit and audience interaction. Thanks to support from […]
Explore these atmospheric mills which produced some of the finest cloth in the world. Visit the Museum & Archive, the Art Gallery exhibition , our artists’ Open Studios, giant sheep & Family Trail before enjoying refreshments in the Tea Room.
Discover 170 years of Bradford Festival Choral Society through photographs, programmes and stories from its remarkable archive. Explore Victorian Bradford, garden parties, balls and everyday choir life, and meet the people and places behind its history. Visitors can also share their own memories, photographs or memorabilia and help uncover more of the choir’s story. Book […]
Discover Bradford Beck, the City’s underground river, integral to its historical development. We’ll follow the Plaque Trail through the City centre, following the underground route of the Bradford Beck, and hear tales of medieval mills, breweries, tanners, strikes, floods, bridges and buildings. And uncover a winning poem. Led by Friends of Bradford’s Becks volunteer and […]
Roll up, roll up! Step up, have a go, and claim your bragging rights. Take on our heritage carnival games — Roll‑a‑Coin, Ball‑in‑a‑Bucket and Table Quoits — led by our very own Victorian Carnival Host. Also enjoy some live music and look out for historical character Florence White making an appearance! Free drop in event […]
Explore Victoria Hall at the heart of Saltaire World Heritage Site and discover its rich history, from Victorian beginnings to its role in the recent film The Choral. Enjoy Wurlitzer organ concerts, piano recitals and displays, meet local historians and trustees, and find out more about this remarkable building’s past, present and future.
Learn about Victoria Hall’s through short slideshows on Victoria Hall’s backstory, The Hall’s Conversaziones, and The Founding of Saltaire. The slideshows will run alongside each other, all day, in the Hall’s Evans Room. It’s FREE, and all are welcome. The slideshows will be one part of a varied programme within Victoria Hall.
Discover Grade II* listed St Helen’s Church, designed by John Carr of York and completed in 1776. See its remarkable east window, dating from 1700 and described as an important example of English glass painting, alongside the church’s distinctive blend of Gothic and classical architecture. Teas available nearby at Weston Hall. Teas available at Weston […]
Explore two railway museums at Ingrow Station with free entry for Heritage Open Days. Discover railway history, get close to fascinating artefacts, sit inside historic carriages and stand on the footplate of the Lord Mayor locomotive. Special events include Silk Folk performing on 12 September and an Austin 7 Club vehicle display on 13 September.
Explore Bradford’s past through the everyday lives connected to one of the city’s most historic buildings. Discover centuries of stories through self-guided and specialist tours, displays and talks from local historians Cat Stiles and Derek Barker. There will also be children’s activities, historical dressing up and refreshments from the pop-up café. Talks and Tours […]
