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LATEST Job Vacancy - Parks and cleaning operative 12 hrs per week (Saturday & Sunday) for an initial trial period of 12 weeks, commencing 31st May 2008. For more details and application form please contact HRTC on 01422 842181 - posted 7th May, 2008Local Elections - CHRISTINE BAMPTON-SMITH elected for Mytholmroyd. All results here - posted 2nd May, 2008ARTS FESTIVAL Building on last year's most successful festival to date, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival launches its 2008 programme on Thursday, May 1 which will also be available online on the Hebweb from Friday morning, 2nd May. more - posted 30th April, 2008BIG GREEN WEEKEND This May Bank Holiday we would like to invite you to a celebration of all things green, ethical, environmentally friendly, organic, sustainable, fairtrade and ecological, that help people and planet to co-exist in harmony... Including the Big Green Market - This May Bank Holiday pay a visit to The Big Green Market in Hebden Bridge. more info - posted 30th April, 2008SABROSO - Restaurant Review A successful pub is often down to a friendly and caring landlord. The same could be said of a good restaurant. A front of house personality who knows his stuff and is at ease with diners is worth his weight in gold. One such man is Chris Murgatroyd, the owner of Mytholmroyd eatery Sabroso... Halifax Courier. more - posted 30th April, 2008Rail Comp - WINNERS! Cllr Fakri, Mayor of Hebden Royd drew the winning tickets for the Mytholmroyd Station Partnership competition. The prizes were free family tickets on the Northern Rail network. They were donated by Drew Haley, Manager of Northern Rail. First Prize - One Month travel to George Brookes, Second Prize - One Week travel to Carole Greenwood, Third Prize - One Day travel to Andy Latham. Well done to them, and thank you all for taking part and your interest in the improvements to the village railway station. Geoff Mitchell more - posted 30th April, 2008PUBLIC MEETING - on local policing on Tuesday 29th April Tuesday 29 April 2008, Hebden House, Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge 6.45pm - 9pm: refreshments available The meeting is being called following expressions of concern about local policing. Those attending will be brought up to date on recent changes in policing in the area and be able to put questions to a panel. There will also be a presentation by Superintendent Alan Ford more - posted 29th April, 2008
Doris Hurst takes the First Prize for Dock Pudding
Dock Pudding Contest - makes the Guardian You may think of them as something to soothe nettle stings but, in parts of Yorkshire, the dock leaf is the key ingredient in a traditional culinary sensation that closely resembles the Welsh breakfast accompaniment of laverbread. Fried up with oatmeal, nettles and onions, the delicacy is usually served with bacon and eggs... Last year's surprise runner-up was Robbie Coltrane, so locals will be keeping an eye out to see if he will return this year and go one better. Full article here - posted 19th April, 2008Dock Pudding Contest - next Sunday 20th April 2008 Mytholmroyd Community Centre Food, craft and charity stalls and a car boot sale will also be held at the centre on April 20 from 10.00 am For more information call Mrs Mansfield on 01422 883023. For info on last year's contest - with Robbie Coltrane click hereand here - posted 18th April, 2008 PRESS RELEASE - Christine Bampton-Smith has been selected
Full list of candidates here - posted 10th April, 2008 CALDER HIGH SCHOOL breaks mould on tackling problem pupils ... Calder High School's head teacher Stephen Ball believes children who are given short-term exclusions are left to hang around on the streets or spend the time at home unsupervised. Instead the school in Mytholmroyd, near Hebden Bridge, is opening a centre for excluded pupils to ensure they are punished for disruptive behaviour but continue to receive an education on the school's site. Yorkshire Post 8th April. more - posted 8th April, 2008Aspire Technology - Cragg Vale Company still has vacancies Expanding local company, Aspire Technology, still has vacancies. Director, Chris Bingham told the Hebden Bridge Web: "We offer a great working environment, no need to travel into the busy city centres." more - posted 5th April, 2008RENOWNED Calderdale sculptor and artist Patricia Lacey has died at the age of 76. Born in Zimbabwe - then known as Rhodesia - she worked all over the world before she and husband Alan settled in Park Fold, Mytholmroyd. Halifax Courier 4th April 2008 more - posted 4th April, 2008Competition to win free rail tickets The Mytholmroyd Station Partnership competition to win free rail tickets must end on Saturday - April 12th. The Draw will be made by the Mayor of Hebden Royd, Cllr Fekri on Tuesday 15th April during the visit to Mytholmroyd of the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire. Full details here - posted 4th April, 2008
England Vest for Rosie Edwards
Rosie competed in the senior womens category for the first time in the Inter Counties Championship in Nottingham as a member of the gold medal winning Yorkshire team. Her performance in this race attracted the attention of UK Athletics resulting in her first international call up to run for England in the curtain raising home countries race at the World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park on Saturday. more - posted 31st March, 2008Request for Participants in Pilot Documentary for Channel 4 - This weekend My name is Julieann O'Malley and I'm back in Hebden Bridge shooting a pilot documentary for Channel Four. We want to make a short documentary about Hebden and the changes it has gone through over the last 30 - 40 years as well as looking into why so many people are attracted to it as a place to live. It's quite short notice but we are shooting the pilot this weekend, from Friday 28th until Monday evening. My number is 07776437764. Kind regards Julieann O'Malley Faidra Films more - posted 29th March, 2008
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Rosie Edwards of Mytholmroyd has been selected for the England team.
Rosie has been selected to run for the England team in the Home Countries Cross Country International to be held at Edinburgh on the 29th March the day before the World Cross Country Championships. more - posted 22nd March, 2008
Calder High School pupils performed the Pace Egg Play around the area on Good Friday
Calder High School closed - Alert as explosive powder vanishes from school lab HIGHLY explosive chemical has gone missing from a school laboratory. More than 150 grams of Thermite Ignition Powder - volatile if exposed to moisture - has been taken from storage at Calder High, Mytholmroyd. Police are desperate to find the powder, which could seriously harm anyone in the immediate vicinity if it explodes. The school remained closed today (Tuesday)as the investigation continued. Staff and pupils who use the lab were being interviewed. Halifax Courier 11th March 2008. more - posted 10th March, 2008Press release 10th March 2008 Lib Dems Triumph 
Calder Valley Liberal Democrats are once again celebrating being the largest party on Hebden Royd Town Council after by-election wins in the wards of White Lee and Caldene. Polling, which took place on Thursday 6th March, brought success over Labour for local businessman Karl Boggis who took 78% of the votes in Caldene ward. Jade Smith, who stood in the White Lee ward and took 73% of the votes to Labour's 27%. Conservatives did not field a candidate in either ward. more - posted 10th March, 2008 GLYN HUGHES and his friendship with Ted Hughes Glyn Hughes - award winning Calder Valley writer has updated his website which now includes a blog (latest entry about his friendship with Ted Hughes) and audio samples of his readings. more - posted 5th March, 2008Mytholmroyd Station Partnership Fancy some Mucky Hands? Then come along to the Mythomolmroyd Station Partnership meeting next Tuesday 11th March at the Church of the Good Shepherd at 19.30hrs. We are going to discuss how we are going to further improve our village railway station. If WE did not do it NO ONE would do it - that is the the simple answer. Look at the station - just from a few hours last year -we are becoming known nationally. Just an hour of your time will make such a difference. Look forward to seeing you Geoff Mitchell, Chairman, Mytholmroyd Station Partnership 01422 885154. Mytholmroyd Station weblog - posted 5th March, 2008Mytholmroyd Swimming Pool Calderdale made available details of plans for this small pool yesterday, giving just three days for people to make representations - See Planning - posted 20th February 2008FINALLY - we have a POSTBOX 
The postbox at our Post Office was disabled in October when the new ramp system was created at Sainsbury's supermarket making the box inaccessible to the Post Office workers for emptying. This week - SIX MONTHS later we have the box re-sited. Planning permission had to be sought and a man had to travel from Sheffield - a journey which took 2 hours to officially open the box. The patience of Mytholmroyd people is to be applauded. Christmas was particularly difficult because cards and letters could only be posted when the Post Office was open.
- posted 20th February 2008
MISSING - MYTHOLMROYD GORILLA - Have you noticed one of the gorillas at Hawksclough has gone missing? It's safe and well but........in Sowerby Bridge!! Would you like to see it return? or permanently left to it's retirement down the valley? Any thoughts? drop me a line here. -- Jason Boom Environmental Community Warden - posted 20th February 2008 Press release: Candidates selected to stand for council 
Liberal Democrats have selected local business man Karl Boggis and the Royd Regeneration company secretary, Jade Smith to fight the Hebden Royd Town Council by-elections in the Mytholmroyd wards of Caldene and White Lee on Thursday March 6.
The by-elections follows the resignations of Liberal stalwarts, Harry and Betty Ward, from the town council.See also: Hebden Bridge Times 14th February - posted 15th February 2008
A good few inches of snow came down in the early hours of Saturday 2nd February and Mytholmroyd woke to a Winter Wonderland. Thanks to Brian Marsden for this photo taken from Hullett looking across to Scout, Cragg and Woodtop. - posted 4th February 2008 LOCAL STEPS GALLERY ONLINE 
Hebden Bridge Walkers Action have now put nearly 800 photos from their Stepping Out photo project online.
more info and gallery
- posted 4th February 2008
Mytholmroyd Station Partnership 
The Mytholmroyd Station Partnership had an award winning station garden last year through the partnership with Northern Rail and the Council. This year our volunteers aim to give an even better display. Our monthly meeting on Tuesday 12 February will concentrate on ideas and plans for the 2008 station garden. Everyone is welcome to come and contribute their ideas. The meeting will be held at the Church of the Good Shepherd, starting at 19.30hrs. Further details from Geoff on 885154 - posted 4th February, 2008 Flooding in Mytholmroyd 
Burnley Road School and Calder High are closed. The river is extremely high and hitting the underside of the bridge. Roads to Todmorden and Sowerby Bridge are closed. Photo - gardens off Caldene Avenue flooded. More photos of Mytholmroyd at midday on this website More photos from The Rev Tony Buglass More photos thanks to Dan Marsden See also: Hebweb - posted 21st January, 2008
The story of chick empire - Thornbers FROM a dozen hens in orange boxes in a backyard in Hebden Royd to the biggest company of its kind in the world - that's the amazing story of Thornbers, the Mytholmroyd-based business that transformed the Calder Valley into a chick-breeding empire. Halifax Courier 27th December. more - posted 8th January, 2008Carol Service St Michael's Mytholmroyd 
Sunday 23rd December 2007. Hundreds of peolple attended St Michael's Church tonight for the Candlelight Carol Service. Afterwards people were invited into the new Church Hall for hot drinks and mince pies. - posted 23rd December, 2007
Santa's Station Saunter 
Santa (in the guise of Paul Salveson, Northern Rail Manager) paid a visit to the upper Calder Valley rail adoption groups who have made big improvements to the local stations this last year.
He was welcomed to Mytholmroyd by a choir from Burnley Road School, who after tucking into mince pies at the Church of the Good Shepherd, greeted homeward commuters with a variety of carols.
more
- posted 12th December, 2007
BROADBAND THE FUTURE. 
Yesterday evening, Shaun Fensom of the Community Broadband Network addressed a public meeting, organised by 3-C at the Good Shepherd Church, Mytholmroyd. The meeting was chaired by Eric Alston of Royd Regeneration.
Those attending were left with no doubt that Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd and the Upper Calder Valley were in serious danger of being left behind once again. See full report on Hebweb - here
- posted 6th December, 2007
Planning: Provision of four new build townhouses and conversion of ex Alexanda mill into ten apartments. Site Of Alexandra Mill Burnley Road Mytholmroyd Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 8NL see Planning - posted 3rd December, 2007 TIA GREYHOUND AND LURCHER RESCUE 
Tia is an independent charity and your donations are always welcome ...For over ten years, Tia Greyhound and Lurcher Rescue has been committed to rescuing and rehoming stray, abandoned and ex-racing greyhounds and lurchers. For more information please take a look at our website here - posted 28th November, 2007 CALDER HOLMES PARK HAS WON £68000 FROM PEOPLE'S MILLIONS - 28 Nov, 12.35pm, - posted 28th November, 2007 VOTE FOR THE PARK - 08702 434 401. You can vote anytime from 9 am until 12 midnight today and the project will appear on the television at just after 6pm tonight on ITV1 Calendar. You can vote up to ten times. Calls are charged at local rates, no premium lines. - posted 27th November, 2007 WANT HELP TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS? 
Family Tree Service create family trees tailored to the individual, ideal for a unique present or just someone with an interest in their heritage. Our dedicated professional team will carefully research your ancestry providing you with an invaluable and accurate insight into your family history. Professionals in all apects of genealogy, we specialise in Yorkshire and also Jewish ancestry. For more information please take a look at our website here or contact us directly by e-mail here. - posted 26th November, 2007 Poison timebomb. A Council survey has shown Calderdale has more than 6,400 plots of land which could be contaminated - and at least one in five is leaking. Five former tips are regularly monitored for possible gas emissions and particular attention is being paid to the former SCOUT ROAD TIP, at Mytholmroyd, which was also used as an asbestos waste dump. Halifax Courier 19th November. More - posted 20th November, 2007
VOTE FOR OUR PARK.
Mytholmroyd pair charged with murder of former Calderdale woman in Cornwall.
Michelle Crossley, 39, was found dead at her farmhouse in Cornwall.
Her pet fox and Alsatian were discovered wandering free in the house in Laity, near Helston, on November 4.
Adam Edward Jinks, 21, who was born in Halifax, has appeared in court with stepdad Gary Chadwick, 42 - both of whom now live in Redruth - accused of killing her. Both men are thought to be former residents of Bankfield Avenue, Mytholmroyd.
Halifax Courier 13th November - More 
Remembrance Sunday Mytholmroyd 11th November 2007 More photos- posted 11th November, 2007
HEADS (Community Arts) - Benefit Xmas Party.
Calder Valley Fell runners.
For more information about Calder Valley Fell Runners their website is here - posted 8th November, 2007 Mytholmroyd Walker's Action. Our next meeting will be held tonight Thursday 8 November at 7.30pm at the Shoulder of Mutton, opposite Mytholmroyd station. . - posted 8th November, 2007 Arts Festival Open Meeting. Anyone interested in having their say about the Festival is invited to an open meeting on November 15 from 7.30pm in the Arts Festival shop on Albert Street in Hebden Bridge. More - posted 8th November, 2007 Plaque to remember Ted Hughes and Six Young Men. Ted Hughes wrote a poem inspired by a photograph of six young men taken at Lumb Falls near Hebden Bridge early last century. All six men were killed in the First World War. As we approach Remembrance Day, in memory of our most distinguished local poet and remembering these six men, a plaque was today unveiled at Lumb Falls, at the same spot where the original photo had been taken. More - posted 8th November, 2007 Cape Asbestos - Alice a Fight for Life - Why, after 25 years, these images of Alice still haunt us. Halifax Courier, 10th October, 2007. "This documentary is probably the most powerful and moving account of the personal tragedy of asbestos-related cancer," ... This article includes video footage from the documentary "Alice a Fight for Life" and contains comments added at the end of the article from her children. More - posted 23rd October, 2007 Mytholmroyd Walker's Action. Sunday 21st October 2007 - Churn Mill Joan . Meet Mytholmroyd Station at start of cycle path at 11.00 am. Medium to hard walk of about 5 miles. Please bring packed lunch. Illustrated map/guide to Mytholmroyd waymarked trails on sale at the newsagents in Mytholmroyd. . - posted 18th October, 2007 Mytholmroyd Station Partnership - Dig in folks. Next Saturday 20th October the Mytholmroyd Station Partnership members are gathering to prepare the station garden areas for some winter colour. We shall be meeting at 10am for one or two hours. For further details contact Geoff Mitchell, Chairman, Mytholmroyd Station Partnership on 01422 885154 - posted 18th October, 2007
Birchen Lee Carr Farm For sale: the old farm too risky to enter
Dust storm - Telegraph 6th October, 2007. The pretty Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge is home to quirky shops, a thriving arts scene and, campaigners claim, Britain's biggest industrial disaster. Former resident Mark Piggott meets the ex-employees of a local factory, whose lives have been blighted by deadly asbestos. More - posted 6th October, 2007 Sincerely, Ted Hughes - Telegraph 6th October, 2007. Ted Hughes was one of the most original and powerful visionary poets of the 20th century... These early letters show his growth as a poet, give a sense of his warmth as a correspondent, and tell - for the first time - the real story of his relationship with Sylvia Plath. More - posted 6th October, 2007 Mytholmroyd joins elite walking towns - Halifax Courier 2nd October. Calderdale dignitaries and councillors lined up to support the launch of a walkers group last weekend. The group's next guided walk takes place October 21 at 11am meeting at Mytholmroyd train station and taking in the Churn Milk Joan route. More. - posted 6th October, 2007 ELAINE CONNELL, co-founder of the Hebden Bridge Web and founder of the Sylvia Plath Forum, died Monday, 1st October. Elaine died peacefully at home with her family on Monday, 1st October 2007. She was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. Elaine was the joint founder of the Hebden Bridge Web and a respected teacher and local personality. See lives remembered. - posted 3rd October, 2007
A Village Childhood
Gertrude Ogden lived in Mytholmroud for the first nineteen years of her life. In 1942 she left to study history at King's College, London which, at the time, was evacuated to Bristol. Like other women students, she was only allowed two years in which to prepare for the degree, and the situation was further complicated when the college moved back to its war damaged site in the Strand twelve months later. She sat finals in 1944, with flying bombs dropping all round the examination hall. She and her sister, Alice have maintained a close relationship throughout their whole lives, and the present book owes a tremendous amount to Alice's good memory, and Elspeth's continuing and genuine interest in this little corner of the Calder Valley. A beautifully presented book with many photos of Mytholmroyd. - posted 26th September 2007
Mytholmroyd Gala - Saturday 22nd September.
EARLIER START FOR Mytholmroyd Gala - Saturday 22nd September. The Gala will start an hour earlier than usual to take advantage of the sunshine. The procession will leave Orchard Business Park at 12.00. Photos of last year's event here, - posted 21st September 2007 Mytholmroyd Station Partnership receives award. The result of our entry in the Yorkshire in Bloom - Category 10, Neighbourhood Award. A great entry of so much benefit to the local community; lots of possibilities for progression, and lots of enthusiasm and energy in the group. more info - posted 21st September 2007 Mytholmroyd will get its long-dreamed of memorial to Ted Hughes at Calder High School. The school theatre is to be named after the Poet Laureate. As building work got under way on the £500,000 redevelopment project at the school, Mr Hughes' widow, Carol, gave permission for the naming. She told head teacher Mr Stephen Ball that she was honoured that the theatre would commemorate her late husband. more info - posted 19th September 2007 Mytholmroyd Walkers Action - Launch - Saturday 29th September at The Good Shepherd, Mytholmroyd. From 10.30am - Guided walks for all ages, Refreshments, Bookstall. Full leaflet can be downloaded here as a pdf file. - posted 17th September 2007 Milly's Cafe Grange Dene Yard. With effect from Friday 21st September and each Friday thereafter, Milly's Cafe will stay open until 10.pm. Fully licensed. From 5pm the menu will offer tapas style treats. more info - posted 17th September 2007 Made in Mytholmroyd - Posh Pickles, Chutneys, Relishes Jams Marmalades more info - posted 17th September 2007 PRESS RELEASE - Invitation to Regeneration. Four years since it became part of the Upper Calder Valley Renaissance programme Royd Regeneration invites the community to celebrate the progress the group has made and take part in opportunity to discuss future projects. more info - posted 12th September 2007 250 runners in tribute to Alice. TWO hundred and fifty runners took part in a 10km challenge around Mytholmroyd in memory of student Alice Redmond. Alice, of Blackshaw Head, was a student at Leeds Metropolitan University when she died on August 31 2005, aged 21. Halifax Courier, 5th September - more info - posted 6th September 2007
Gold Pieces -
Now selling at The Book Case, Market Street, Hebden Bridge The picture on the front of the book was originally submitted to The Mytholmroyd.net by Keith Shackleton for our photo archives. Used now, with his permission on this book which contains lots of local placenames and local history. Original photo here - posted 6th September 2007
Mytholmroyd Station Partnership - Mosaic.
The Mosaic was produced by Year 8 students at Calder High School, Mytholmroyd. The project was managed by trainee teacher Sharon Hiley under the supervision of Andrew Greenwood, Head of Art. It depicts the scenery around Mytholmroyd and the Upper Calder Valley (including Stoodley Pike). More info - posted 2nd September 2007 Mytholmroyd Gala - 22nd September. Photos of last year's event here, posted 26th August 2007 Paris to Marrakech by bike. Hebden Bridge solicitor Paul Glanville is cycling 2500 miles to raise money for research into asbestos related illness. More, posted 26th August 2007
B Road Britain - Robbie Coltrane in Mytholmroyd. A Tribute to Ted Hughes On YouTube. Ted Hughes reads his poetry and more. It contains poetry readings by Ted as well as interviews with him. - posted 24th August 2007
B Road Britain - Robbie Coltrane in Mytholmroyd. Karen Darke. Karen will take part in an ITV programme tomorrow night "Leaving Behind the Past" at 8.00. Karen will talk of the dark days following her accident and the personal triumphs she has since achieved. - posted 2nd August 2007
Seaside special - Mytholmroyd Station Partnership
Swimming Pool for Mytholmroyd - A decision is expected before September 5. Halifax Courier 25th July, 2007. More info - posted 26th July 2007 British Red Cross Responding to floods in Britain. British Red Cross emergency response volunteers have helped, and are continuing to help, hundreds of people across England and Wales who have been affected by torrential rain and flooding over the weekend. Donate here and more info - posted 23rd July 2007 Developing Hebden Bridge and surrounding villages. Reports of Watchdog meetings, minutes, letter from David Fletcher and info about Civic Trust. Next meeting: 25th July White Lion, Hebden Bridge - 7.30 pm More info - posted 23rd July 2007 Remembering Alice Jefferson - 25 years on. Alice Jefferson lived in Mytholmroyd and had worked at Cape Asbestos for a few months as a teenager. In her forties, Alice began to suffer breathlessness. By 1980, she was incapacitated with the disease pleural mesothelioma. She took part in a documentary called Alice a fight for Life which went out on July 20th 1982. More info - posted 20th July 2007 Swimming pool for Mytholmroyd - plans submitted. Plans have been submitted for a small swimming pool at the Mytholmroyd Community Centre, but there are concerns about the lack of public discussion and consultation with the wider community. More info - posted 18th July 2007 3-C announces training workshop. Funded by 3-C's National Lottery Awards for All Grant, the workshop will take place on Saturday 28 July from 11am - 4.30pm at Holme Street Arts Centre in Hebden Bridge. Holme Street Arts Centre is fully wheelchair accessible. More info - posted 15th July 2007 Ian McMillan - on visiting Mytholmroyd to judge the poetry competition at the Ted Hughes Festival. " ... But (whisper this), if I didn't live in South Yorkshire, there are parts of West Yorkshire I wouldn't mind living in, and that valley from Halifax to Sowerby Bridge and Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge is one of them. It's the stone, I think, and the hills, and the hint of rain." Yorkshire Post 26th June, 2007. Full article - posted 10th July 2007
Portrait of Ted Hughes 
Reginald Gray is an Irish-born portrait painter and his work is represented in The National Portrait Gallery London (portrait from life 1960 of Francis Bacon) also National Portrait Gallery Australia and The Museum of London. Reginald told us he has fed upon the works of Ted Hughes for many years and had just finished a hommage to him entitled "Ted Hughes in The Calder Valley". Reginald would like to donate this portrait to Mytholmroyd, saying "After all the years pleasure I have received from reading Ted Hughes works this would be a very small return. I would be honoured to have it hanging in the location where Ted Hughes was born and spent his younger days." The full story and a larger picture are here - posted 8th July, 2007 Clamping - Your Killing our businesses - Halifax Courier - 6th July 2007. Businesses in Mytholmroyd claim the "heavy-handed" tactics of wheel clampers in a surgery car park are driving them out of business. But the efforts of one shop owner to alleviate the problem have been met with legal action threats. Judy Edwards owns the building opposite Grange Dene medical centre. She allowed customers and traders to park outside her shop until lawyers stepped in. More - posted 7th July 2007 Mytholmroyd Heritage Walk - by Mike Darke
2nd Edition (Revised) and Extended. 48 pages. Organised into 5 walks. The whole walk can be undertaken in about 3 hours. Printed 2004. Price £2.95 Mike Darke 2 Park Top Barn, Midgley Road, Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire HX7. E-mail: Mike Darke. Also available at The Bookcase, Market Street, Hebden Bridge. posted 7th July, 2007
Clamping PRESS RELEASE: Mytholmroyd Gala has been cancelled. The 47th event of its kind was due to take place this Saturday at Burnley Road School's playing field. The field is totally water-logged. - posted 5th July, 2007 Salute to wheel clampers' Mr Fixit Halifax Courier article - 3rd July 2007. HIS actions may have earned him a police caution but it seems the man who removed a wheel clamp with a hammer and chisel has become something of a hero for Calderdale motorists... Peter Forsdike, of Whitesands Travel, Mytholmroyd, said: "It is about time someone took a stand against these clampers. "We have seen old ladies in tears all for the crime of stopping off for a paper on their way to the health centre. "While I totally understand why the Primary Care Trust has resorted to this action, this form of intimidation totally contradicts their mission statement 'Care in the Community.'" more posted 3rd July 2007
Posters appearing around Grange Dene Yard today. "Traders cheer wheel clamp buster" 3rd July 2007 - Thanks to Jon Duerden for photo David Hargreaves shows how he beat the clamp. THIS man was less than chuffed when his car was wheel-clamped at a Mytholmroyd's medical centre. David Hargreaves, 41, ... but when he returned a few minutes later he found his Fiat Punto had become the latest victim of Grange Dene medical centre's clampers. ... So Mr Hargreaves, a mechanic, of Victoria Terrace, Luddenden Foot ... whipped out a chisel and sledgehammer and removed the clamp himself. Local shop workers, who have protested about the over-zealous clampers since November, cheered and clapped as he drove off. full story - Halifax Courier - 29th June, 2007
  See more old Photos - of Mytholmroyd - The Royal Oak when it was thriving, floods, procession through Mytholmroyd and Burnley Road with tram.
From Brian Mottershead Pembroke, Ontario, Canada Old Pictures Have enjoyed your collection of older pictures on the website. My brother and I were perusing them last week and were surprised that we knew several people. We both went to Calder High School 1951 to 1956. I have lived in Canada since '56 and my brother now lives in California. So, thought you might be interested in this picture taken at Calder High about 1952 or 53. The cast of a school play, which as I recall wasn't very good, even though I was in it! I know names of about half the people and would be interested in hearing from anyone who recognizes him or herself.  Click on photo above to see a larger version.
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ITV's Calendar and the lottery funded People's Millions will feature Calder Holmes Park - your votes are needed on 27th November.
with live band MEAN BUSINESS "the very best soul band in the valley".
Sat 15 December 2007 - Mytholmroyd Community Centre. bar 8pm-12pm, on site free parking,
light supper included Tickets: On sale at £12.50 (£10.00 concessions) from: Hebden Bridge Tourist Information Centre or Spirals shop on Market Street, Hebden Bridge, or on the door at £15.00
Halifax Courier 8th November.
THERE was a coming of age on the streets of Calderdale on Sunday as Mytholmroyd-based Calder Valley fell runners celebrated their 21st birthday with a social group run in their familiar red and white hooped vests.
It all started in November 1986 when a group of athletes met at The Shoulder of Mutton pub in Mytholmroyd.
A 17th-century listed building will go up for auction - but the buyer will need to carry out some serious renovation.
Birchen Lee Carr Farm, Raw Lane, Mytholmroyd, has been labelled one of the finest examples of a yeoman clothier's house in West Yorkshire.
But it is now sealed off, deemed too dangerous to enter. The building, expected to be bought by a developer for hundreds of thousands, is in such poor condition it was put on the English Heritage At Risk register two years ago. Halifax Courier 16th October.
This book goes on sale on 1st October. A book launch will take place this coming Saturday at Scout Road Methodist at 2pm. It can be purchased at The Book Case Hebden Bridge or The Tourist Information Centre, Hebden Bridge. It can also be ordered from Mytholmroyd Post Office.
Phyllis Bentley's exciting story for children about the Cragg Vale Coiners.
On Friday 31st August, the Mytholmroyd Station Partnership organised the unveiling of the station Mosaic. 
The Mytholmroyd Station Partnership Volunteers, who over the last few months have transformed the Station, boarded the Northern Rail Seaside Special to Morecombe just as it started to rain. The group were instantly presented with a generous, delicious, healthy breakfast parcel in a recycled brown bag, from The Bear in Todmorden.
