Tuesday 14 June 2022

Events to commemorate Halifax 1842

1842 events 

 2nd of July between 1 and 2pm in Heptonstall Museum – New play set against the backdrop of a revolt by mill workers in 1842. 

 17th July – public meeting 11am at Calderdale Industrial Museum, speakers Catherine Howe, Matthew Roberts, Katrina Navickas, James Dean, Neil Pye – free but need to book 1st August – launch of Great Strike 1842 beer brewed by Eagles Crag Brewery 

 12th August – David Glover to speak at 2pm and 3.30pm at The Grayston Pub, next to Halifax Town Hall, on 1842 events Evening – Attila the Stockbroker at Grayston pub. 

 13th August 10am -11am Lister Lane Cemetery open to view the graves of 9 Chartists buried there including Benjamin Rushton 10.30am – unveiling of board to commemorate 9 Chartists buried in cemetery March from cemetery to town centre for 1842 plaque unveiling – a wreath will be laid en route to those who were guillotined at the Gibbet on Lister Lane Grayston Pub – music & social after the unveiling 

 September – special photo to be take of a re-enactment of the painting by Alfred Walter Bayes of the Chartist meeting at Basin Stones, Todmorden in 1842 

 Documentary film – filming will take place at many of these events as part of the making of a documentary on Halifax 1842. Other film locations will include moors on which the Chartists organised mass meetings across West Yorkshire in the period 1839-1846.

 It is also proposed to hold a brief meeting at the EP Thompson plaque. Date not yet decided.

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