What's On in Hebden Bridge
and the surrounding area - 2026
The Life as a Roman Legionary
A talk by Steve Welsh to the Todmorden u3a Meeting at the Todmorden Learning Centre and Community Hub (Tod College) at 2pm on Thursday, 19th February 2026.
Steve was brought up in Jarrow on the banks of the River Tyne. At a very young age Steve developed an interest in ancient history and over the years devoured many books about roman military and political history. He began to buy items of Roman armour and finally had a whole set.
The meeting starts at 2pm at Todmorden Learning Centre and Community Hub (Tod College) and is open to paid up members of the Todmorden u3a. But if you would like to attend you can enquire by going to www.u3atod.org.uk or by contacting membership@u3atod.org.uk
Old Town Bowling Club AGM
From 7.30pm at Wadsworth Community Centre, Billy Lane, Old Town, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8RY
If you are planning to bowl for Old Town in 2026, or would like to, whether experienced or not please attend if you can.
If you are unable to attend the meeting but would like to bowl, please advise Derek of your availability by text or call: 07890 205980.
If you don't have your own Crown Green bowls, the club has some that they can loan to beginners and players.
Potato Day, Seed Swap, Local Producers and more
Time: 11am to 3pm
Where: Hebden Bridge Methodist Church, 54 Bridge Lanes, Hebden Bridge, HX7 6AA.
* Choose from 12 varieties of delicious seed potatoes
* Bring your unwanted seeds to our seed swap
* Enjoy a delicious, home-cooked potato-based lunch and cake
* Meet local producers and sample their wares
* Participate in fun activities with your children
Admission is £1 (children free), with automatic entry into a raffle. Please bring cash if you can.
Can you volunteer to help out for 2-3 hours on the day? Eg set up, selling potatoes, reception desk. You'll be well looked after and get a free lunch. Email Hannah and Kath on calderveg@gmail.com.
Kindly sponsored by Valley Organics Workers Co-op. All profits will go towards improving access to locally grown food in our valley.
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In conversation with Matt Cain:
On 21 February, the Lit & Sci welcomes Matt Cain, "a novelist, broadcaster, activist and storyteller of rare warmth and wit, for what promises to be a truly enchanting and inspirational evening.
Friends of Brearley Fields Meet up
Everyone welcome
More work needs doing on site and regular engagement and maintenance too. A brilliant site with loads of potential. It's at the Cricket Club in Mytholmroyd.
With support from the Town Council, Calderdale and the likes of Slow the Flow too. For anyone who knows the great work they do at Cromwell Bottom. it is hoped this wild space can achieve similar benefits for ecology, wildlife and amenity for the local area. Kingfishers, SandMartins and otters all spotted recently.
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
The Wainstall Waifs
Speaker: Kim Pearson
From 1876 more than 250 young girls came from the depths of the Liverpool Workhouse to Wainstalls Mills, more than a thousand feet above Halifax, to find employment, friendships, love and a future. This talk explores the context and the human story of this mass migration.
Kim Pearson describes herself as 'born, bred and buttered' in Halifax. Having lived for forty years in Wainstalls she felt a compulsion to know more about the story of these girls. This led to twenty years of research and an intimate knowledge of the girls that made them feel like family. Kim feels she is just a conduit for their real story.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Shaggy Dog Storytellers present:
Stories from the floor
8-10pm, The Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd, function room
It's time to gather again for old fables, fairy tales, folk tales, myths, legends, and just good old yarns.
Whether you've got a story to tell, or simply like to listen, join us for an enjoyable evening.
Recommended donation £5 p/p
The return of … The Open Mic
White Lion pub, Heptonstall
From 8.30pm.
Any performer guaranteed a slot!
Friendly soundman (Mark) on hand to help you set up and sort out the twiddly bits on PA system.
Come on down and have a go, or just show up and drink in the atmos. And drink beer.
Pennine Stories
Heptonstall Bowling Club 11am-1pm
Explore our amazing Pennine Heritage Digital Archive, which holds over 70,000 images.
You are invited to browse and select pictures that are of most interest to you. Explore the history of Mytholmroyd and Cragg Vale!
Images that you pick out will be put into packs to serve as creative writing inspiration for local schools. Help to bring our history to life!
Cantorelli Concert of Choral and Organ Music
3.30pm at St James, Parish Church of Hebden Bridge,
Church Lane, HX7 6DS
Admission £10.00 on the door (free admission for under 18's).
Cantorelli will be joined by organist Professor David Baker playing a chest organ.
A programme of timeless sacred choral and organ masterpieces spanning five centuries from Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis to late Romantic Josef Rheinberger.
The Lost Chord Ensemble
7 pm until 9:30 pm, in the Little Theatre bar, Holme Street, Hebden Bridge HX7 8EE
The Lost Chord Ensemble is a small group of musicians who support the Little Theatre. They meet about once a month usually on a Sunday evening to play light music. Musicians (with their music stand) are invited to come and play.
If you are coming for the first time, please contact chris.browne@tiscali.co.uk with details of your instrument so that a pad of music can be made available.
Poetry at The Dusty Miller
7:15 for a 7:30pm start
The Coiners Room, Dusty Miller Inn, Burnley Road, Mytholmroyd HX7 5LH
Three excellent poets:
Jean Atkin
Suzanne Batty
Richard Skinner
Hat passed round for poets. Books to buy
Car park at rear - bus stop outside - station 5 minutes walk
Free. All Welcome
Pennine Stories
Blackshaw Head Heritage Weekend
Explore our amazing Pennine Heritage Digital Archive, which holds over 70,000 images.
You are invited to browse and select pictures that are of most interest to you. Explore the history of Mytholmroyd and Cragg Vale!
Images that you pick out will be put into packs to serve as creative writing inspiration for local schools. Help to bring our history to life!
Heritage signal box to stage open day Hebden Bridge's Grade II-listed signal box, now safely looked after in community ownership, is throwing its doors open to the public on Sunday, 8 March, from 10am - 1pm. Read more on this HebWeb news page.
Teen Creativity Club
Offering an informal space for 10-18s to:
- Write, draw, and explore expression
- Get feedback and inspiration
- Bring ideas, activities, games or use ours
Next session dates and themes on the 2nd Mondays
of the month: 3.45pm - 5pm
9th March - Graphic Design
Free event with hot drinks available.
Any questions, please email
Book here or just drop by..
Creative Connection
An informal session for creative co-working, peer feedback and networking taking place on the 2nd Monday of the month from 5-6.15pm at Hebden Bridge Library.
Next session dates and themes on the below Mondays 5-6.15pm:
9th February - Devotion
9th March - Emergence
Bring your own work-in-progress or engage with prompts and themes provided.
All media welcome!
Free event with hot drinks available.
Any questions, please email
Just drop in or book here
Thread Collective Textile Craft Social
Thread Collective is a textile craft community group bringing people together through creativity. Our socials are inclusive, friendly spaces for like-minded people to be creative together. Bring your own textile projects to work on, meet new people, share ideas and get inspired. Every kind of hand-held textile craft is welcome from embroidery and knitting to everything in between.
We meet at The Albert pub which has great food and drink available to fuel your crafting.
Our next social will be Wednesday 11th March from 6pm til 8pm at The Albert. Tickets are available here
Find out more about us on Instagram at @we_are_thread_collective
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Murder at Snow Booth:
Gender and Justice between the wars
Speaker: Matilda Wilding
What can the story of a local 1933 murder tell us about gender and justice between the wars? What might it reveal about those same themes in the modern day?
It's midsummer. Hill top farmers above Hebden Bridge are taking in the hay. Evening is falling. The final act of a cruel and brutal marriage is about to play out.
Matilda Wilding is the creator of Yorkshire: A Murderous History a podcast in which historical homicides (and sinister mysteries) are investigated for the illumination of the past and insights into our present day. The often untold stories of Yorkshire's working class women are front and centre of her work.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
Calderdale Badger Protection Society
A Snuffle Through the Secret World of Calderdale's Badgers with Cath Baker who is the Lit & Sci's speaker on 14 March. By day, Cath is a social worker. By night (and most weekends), she follows badgers.
The Mayor's Ceilidh
Fundraising for White Ribbon
With live music and callers from Peaceworks band plus a pie & peas supper
Mytholmroyd Community Centre, 7.30pm
£15, includes supper
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe is on at St Michael's Church Hall HX7 5DS
1pm to 4pm
We mend electricals, garments, bikes and will have a go at most things! Repairs by donation only.
Refreshments and our famous cakes!
All welcome.
Pennine Stories
Todmorden Town Hall 12:30-2:30pm
Explore our amazing Pennine Heritage Digital Archive, which holds over 70,000 images.
You are invited to browse and select pictures that are of most interest to you. Explore the history of Mytholmroyd and Cragg Vale!
Images that you pick out will be put into packs to serve as creative writing inspiration for local schools. Help to bring our history to life!
Film Festival 2026
The 6th edition of the Hebden Bridge Film Festival will take place from 20-22 March 2025
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Lawless Ladies: a thousand years
of female criminals
Speaker: Trish Colton with Diane Holloway
For more than a millennium women have been committing a range of crimes, including piracy, highway robbery, witchcraft and religious crimes. Some of these women were from Yorkshire, a few even from Calderdale. This talk describes the times, the women involved and the punishments they received.
Trish Colton and Diane Holloway are sisters who have lived in Yorkshire for many years and now retired. They write non-fiction books on historical themes, and enjoy having the time to carry out the research. Lawless Ladies is the second book that Trish and Diane have co-authored.
Methodist Church, Market Street. Hebden Bridge. 7.30pm, free to members; £4 for visitors
The Houghton Weavers
7.30pm, Hebden Bridge Town Hall
The Houghton Weavers in Concert.
Tickets £15 in person from the Town Hall or online (fees apply)
Dark Matter presents
Sunset Images
krautrock, punk and shoegaze from Mexico City
With very special guests MUGSTAR
7.30pm, Golden Lion Todmorden
Dark Matter presents
Sister Ray Davies
Alabama duo touring their debut album Holy Island
Golden Lion Todmorden 7.30pm
Dark Matter presents
KEELEY
Ireland's rising stars of the modern dreampop scene
Black Bordello - dark Jazz - opening the show
7.30pm, Golden Lion Todmorden
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe is on at St Michael's Church Hall HX7 5DS
1pm to 4pm
We mend electricals, garments, bikes and will have a go at most things! Repairs by donation only.
Refreshments and our famous cakes!
All welcome.
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe
Mytholmroyd Repair Cafe is on at St Michael's Church Hall HX7 5DS
1pm to 4pm
We mend electricals, garments, bikes and will have a go at most things! Repairs by donation only.
Refreshments and our famous cakes!
All welcome.