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Picnic in the Park 2024

Picnic in the Park 2024

Picnic in the Park 2024 was held on Sunday 4th August. The weather was kind and around 500 people attended the BYO community picnic, and were entertained by the Horbury Victoria Band, the Horbury Town Football Club, the inaugural 'Pride of Horbury' Tug-of-War...

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TUG-OF-WAR

TUG-OF-WAR

This year Picnic in the Park will stage the first annual 'Pride of Horbury' Tug-of-War at 3.00pm The application form is here Tug of War Application Form and all teams must complete an entry form in order to compete. Carr Lodge Park - Sunday 4th August - from 1.00pm...

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PLACEMAKER

PLACEMAKER

On Saturday and Sunday the 4th and 5th May, volunteers from Horbury Civic Society took part in PLACEMAKER, a project to enhance the appearance of Horbury through replacing old street name signs with new, bespoke signs bearing the Horbury three castles crest. The...

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Our Place

Our Place

Our Place The Civic Society has joined with Friends of Horbury’s Parks and the Horbury Village Partnership to deliver Our Place, a creative environmental project for Horbury in 2023 and 2024. Our Place has five interconnected elements: Art in the Park, Redbox Gallery,...

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John Carr 300

John Carr 300

John Carr, the celebrated architect, was born in Horbury, in the year 1723. He was the eldest son of a master mason, and from his earliest years showed a decided taste for architecture. In 1748 he set up in business for himself, and soon established a reputation as...

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Making the Call

Making the Call

This installation at Redbox celebrates work created by adults with learning difficulties and/or autism, and it highlights careers in Learning Disability Nursing. The screen shows films made by CoActive Arts, alongside information about careers in Learning Disability...

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Redbox Gallery

Redbox Gallery

A new installation by Emily Binks is now on show at Redbox. Emily Binks. b.1992, Wakefield. Emily Binks is an Artist, creative practitioner and teacher based at the Art House, Wakefield since 2015. Binks works predominantly manifest as, but are not limited to,...

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A machine to play a simple paradiddle

A machine to play a simple paradiddle

A machine to play a simple paradiddle Wood, snare drum, video performance  1’49” – Phil Illingworth 2022 https://www.philillingworth.com/ This work has been personalised for Redbox through the introduction of a snare drum made by Highwood Drums of School Lane,...

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Redbox Gallery – call for artists

Redbox Gallery – call for artists

Redbox Gallery invites proposals from artists for 2022. The pro-forma is here Proposal outline pro-forma 2022 The fee payable to the selected artit is usually £500 and the display period is usually 8 weeks. Ownership of the work is retained by the artist. For more...

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Membership 2024

Membership 2024

Horbury Civic Society annual membership fees are  £10.00 payable in January. If you join after the Horbury Street Fayre in June there is a reduced rate of £5.00 We have no core funding and we are reliant on Membership fees to sustain us The Membership form is here...

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Design Awards 2021

Design Awards 2021

HORBURY CIVIC SOCIETY DESIGN AWARDS 2021 – NOMINATIONS FORM We are seeking nominations to our Design Awards 2021, for projects completed in the year, in the following 5 categories: 1)Environmental Excellence; 2)Restoration and Refurbishment;  3)Best Shop Front; 4)New...

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Redbox Gallery – call for artists

Redbox Gallery – call for artists

The classic K6 telephone box on Queen Street, Horbury was purchased from BT by Horbury Civic Society in 2018. It has been re-painted, re-glazed and re-purposed as an art space. It has a power supply, lighting and a locking door. We are calling for new proposals from...

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VISION FOR HORBURY – AN ACTION PLAN

VISION FOR HORBURY – AN ACTION PLAN

The township of Horbury includes Horbury Village, Horbury Bridge and Horbury Junction. It is an ancient settlement dating from before William the Conqueror and the Domesday book. We appreciate Horbury as an attractive township, full of historic character, surrounded...

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Mother of Hope

Mother of Hope

Ceramicist Drew Caines has installed a new work in Redbox Gallery. Titled 'Mother of Hope' the clay female figure stands 180cm high and contains text baked into the figure. Drew says “Life is hard for everyone at the moment and we have all endured desperate times.  So...

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A Shot in the Park

A Shot in the Park

The Friends of Horbury's Parks are running a photo competition to find some great images of Horbury's parks and green spaces. The competiton details are here FoHP Photo Competition T&Cs and prizes will be awarded to winners in the Under 16s category and the open...

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Horbury history QR code trail virtual tour

Horbury history QR code trail virtual tour

Local historian helen Bickerdike has made a stunning video of our QR code blue plaque trail through Horbury. It is an exceptional piece of work and our thanks go to Helen and to Wakefield Council who supported the production. Follow this link to view the 19 minute...

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Horbury Shoal

Horbury Shoal

Horbury Shoal is a new seating arrangement for the Queen Street site. It has been commissioned by the Good of Small Things project which finds opportunities for artists to add life to the Horbury streetscape. Shoal is the work of Martin Heron, a well known sculpture...

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The Seagull has Landed

The Seagull has Landed

The Seagull has Landed - 31 July 2020 The third bird in the Horbury Aviary project has now been installed. Sculptor Bruce Williams has made a new windvane for Horbury; this time a 'seagull' (actually a herring gull) that sits over a bag of chips behind the chip shop...

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Thinking outside the box

Thinking outside the box

Redbox Gallery has a timely new installation, addressing mental health issues Thinking Outside the Box A creative collaboration between Cate Frampton of Horbury Integrative Therapies and Claire Lake of Clearly Creative, a fused glass artist based in Ackworth. Claire...

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The Exploding Lawnmower

The Exploding Lawnmower

This spring themed installation is devised in collaboration with Horbury Lawnmowers who kindly donated a vintage Suffolk Punch lawnmower for me to ‘explode’ and, subsequently, to curate and exhibit as individual parts within the Redbox Gallery. I felt that there...

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New blue plaques

New blue plaques

On Saturday 19th October we will be unveiling two new blue plaques. At 2.00pm we will unveil the blue plaque to Stan Barstow at his birthplace: 17 Shepstye Road, Horbury. A little later around 2.30pm we will unveil a blue plaque to bandleader Angus Holden at the Peel...

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Redbox Christmas – 0800 Do You Believe?

Redbox Christmas – 0800 Do You Believe?

0800 Do You Believe -  a new work by Jenny Watson of Yorkshirearts, has now been installed at Redbox Gallery. The work, which features ceramics made with input from community groups at the Cluntergate Centre, will be in place until mid February.

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Bill Ingham

Bill Ingham

Our Deputy Chairman Bill Ingham (centre) was honoured today 30th August 2019 with an award for his community service. The award was presented at the Town Hall by Cllr. Charles Keith, Mayor of Wakefield. Well done Bill; a richly deserved award.

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Redbox Gallery

Redbox Gallery

Redbox Gallery occupies a K6 telephone box which the Society purchased from BT for £1. Redbox has a strong curatorial policy which requires all commissioned artists to find a Horbury institution or organisation to engage with, and to concieve a new work inspired by...

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Horbury Aviary

Horbury Aviary

The Horbury Aviary project seeks to establish a large number of bird sculpture windvanes on buildings around the town. The bird sculptures are the work of Bruce Williams https://www.brucewilliams.net/projects/horbury-owl/ and each bird is personalised for the...

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Corporate Membership

Corporate Membership

Membership If you care about Horbury, we'd love to hear from you! We are keen to recruit new members who can support our efforts to make Horbury and even better place in which to live or work. Membership is open to any individual or organisation who shares our aims...

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A sculpture trail

A sculpture trail

A temporary sculpture trail has been set up in Horbury. The works by Theo Welch-King; Stathis Dimitriadis and Sarah Dewhurst have been commissioned with Arts Council support by David Gilbert for the Cluntergate Centre.

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Events

Events

We have an ongoing cultural programme of events: talks, walks and visits. We arrange visits to places of interest. Here we are visiting Streets in the Sky in Halifax. This event was facilitated by Halifax Civic Society.

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