Captured Past

Today, March 20, an interesting exhibition is officially launched in Haworth's Old School Room: Captured Past, showing pictures of Haworth through history:
Picture source.

An exhibition of historic photographs of Haworth will help publicise a planned facelift for the village's Old School Room.
The restoration project aims to highlight the building's close links with the Brontë family and safeguard its future.
The schoolroom in Church Street, next to the Parsonage Parsonage Museum, was built in the mid-1800s by the Rev Patrick Brontë.
His four famous children all worked in the building, and Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholls held their wedding feast there.
The Brontë Society, which runs the museum, and the next-door parish church have united to form the partnership Brontë Spirit.
They last year gained a grant of £43,300 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to plan the restoration project.
The organisations then hope to find the estimated £1 million needed to refurbish the old school room.
The first event is an exhibition of photographs of Haworth and district ranging from the reign of Queen Victoria to the 1970s.
The photographs have been supplied by Haworth historian Steven Would and exhibition organised by Steven Whitehead.
Dr Angela Redmond, the Old School Room project officer, wanted people to access the amazing past of the Haworth area.
She said: "Many people who live in the district have never been inside the Old School Room and this will be their chance to have a look around.
"The oldest photograph was taken in the mid 1850s and perfectly illustrates the kind of lifestyle the Brontë family experienced.
"It also has the Old School Room as backdrop which is a wonderful link with what we're trying to achieve today."
Dr Redmond said Brontë Spirit hoped the Old School Room could eventually become a heritage centre.
She said: "It could become a major site for the advancement of the arts and education within the district.
The exhibition will be officially launched on March 20, then open to the public at 2pm the following day.
The opening will be rung in by the bell ringers of St Michael's and All Saints Parish Church, led by Captain of the Bells, Simon Burnett.
Admission to the exhibition free and the opening hours will normally be 1pm to 4pm seven days a week until September 2008.
Bronte Spirit is a partnership designed to safeguard not only the Old School Room, but other parts of the Brontë legacy in and around Haworth. (David Kinghts in The Telegraph and Argus)

More information about the exhibition and the Brontë Spirit project here and on the Brontë Spirit blog.

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Haworth