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Midgley is a traditional Pennine village sitting in a beautiful moorland-edge location on the hillside above the Calder Valley, near to Hebden Bridge and Halifax. Midgley Community Forum operates this website and is the focus of the many strands of community activity taking place in the village.
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Midgley Needs You!
Midgley Community Forum (MCF) and Midgley Matters (MMAL) continues to provide a very special and important community hub but only with the hard work and dedication of volunteers. If you would like to get more involved in any aspect of MCF or MMAL, we are always looking out for any new offers of expertise, enthusiasm and help. Take a look at our website to see what’s coming up/ our history and recent events. Please contact Graham Hill ( Chair of MMAL and MCF )for more information if you would like to get more involved. email : whatsappeningmidgley@gmail.com
We need more cooks and servers for Saturday Breakfasts - if you can help take orders and serve, or would like to cook breakfasts, we can help you obtain the food safety level 2 qualification. We would love to hear from you
What's New
Book Swap Cupboard
Our new book swap, in the village, needs books to start it off. Good quality books that you have enjoyed reading. Books for all ages would be great as we particularly want to encourage young and teenage readers to use it.
Children’s books will be on the bottom shelf. Once we have it up and running and full of books, please take a book if you are donating a book. That way it will be easier for us to manage the amount of books stored there. Where is it? Next to the water trough across the road from the shop - thanks to Jerome for the lovely handmade cabinet. Happy reading everyone!
Community Room
The Community Room has been re-decorated to give it a freshen up. We have showcased art work in the past and lucky to have Dave Warburton’s work on display at the moment. If you would like a chance to display/sell paintings or photographs - please contact Helen Hill by email - whatsappeningmidgley@gmail.com
Bus update
Luddendenfoot Ward Councillors have sent our analysis of your responses and summary to West Yorkshire Combined Authority Transport group. The chief executive Simon Warburton responded to say, “Feedback such as this can help us shape the bus network for the communities it serves, which as we move towards a franchised network will be vital to ensuring our services meet the needs of our passengers.” At present there isn’t the funding from WYCA for additional buses; but in the meantime, our Ward Councillors are looking into what can be done locally.
Upcoming Events
Quiz Nights
Quiz Evenings are back!
Doors open at 7:30pm for 8pm start.
Ticket is £6 which includes your supper (meat and vegetarian options).
The bar will be open and supper will be served half way through the evening.
Please sign up and pay in the shop, to book your place by Wednesday of that week for catering and bar ordering purposes. Please bring a pound in cash for the jackpot prize
Friday 26th September 2025
Friday 24th October 2025
Friday 21th November 2025
Saturday Breakfasts
Saturday Breakfasts are back in the Community Room from 10am to 12:30pm (last orders 12:00pm)
Come and enjoy a freshly made bacon, egg or/and sausage (vegetarian options available) teacake and a cafetière of coffee or pot of tea.
Take away available!
Saturday 13 September 2025
Saturday 4th October 2025
Saturday 8th November 2025
Saturday 6th December 2025
Coffee Mornings
Coffee mornings Thursdays 10:00 to 12:30 - homemade cakes, teas and coffees
Craft and Chat
Meets first Tuesday in every month - 2pm -4pm
An informal group of experts and novices in all sorts of knitting, arts and crafting skills, meeting monthly in the community room. We learn new skills from each other as well as having a chat. Refreshments are provided and make a small donation to community funds. Everyone welcome.
Midgley History Group
The next Midgley History Group meeting will be on Tuesday 23rd September at 7pm. The theme for the meeting will be Public Houses in Midgley. Please bring along any relevant information/ photos etc that you may have for us all to share.
Please also bring along ideas for future themes or projects that you’re interested in.
Meeting location for this evening to be shared via the Midgley History WhatsApp group or alternatively message Kym Lockett on 07770974140.
Gardening group
Meets first Monday in every month - 7pm
Sharing of ideas, seeds and gardening tips - this is a self-help group of enthusiatic amateurs who support the village environment as well as supporting each other with our gardening endeavours.
Everyone welcome
Midgley News/ Recent Events
Midgley Centenary Fete
The weather was kind, the crowds came out to support us - Midgley Fete 2025 was a great success!
Midgley resident Peggy Horsfield formally opened the fete and Midgley school children did a wonderful Maypole dance and the school choir sang the Midgley Song ( a song written in yorkshire dialect in the 1970's). The children's races were hotly contested as was the parents' "beanbag on yer 'ead" race!!
We had a fun-filled afternoon with old favourites like the dog races, welly wanging and tug of war as well as new additons to the programme. Demitri Ogden entertained with circus skills and Ben Gates with his Orchestra of Objects delighted all ages. Cricketing skills by Booth Cricket Club were a welcome addition to the centenary celebration of Midgley Recreation Ground. Our friendly St John's Ambulance volunteers were in attendance and ready for any weyward welly incidents.
With plenty of information stalls, tombola/bottle stall, face - painting, theraputic kneads massages, coconut shy, splat the rat and bric a brac, the fete-goers were generous in their support for local charities and small businesses. Chunky's kitchen provided the food to keep our strength up, Just Jenny's ices kept us cool and the Midgley forum tea tent sustained us with cuppas and the most delicious of cakes. The beer tent was integral, as always, to a successful event and kept the beer flowing into the evening with its usual expertise and hard graft.
We cheered out and welcomed back the fell runners who ran 6.2 km to Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor and back. They had everyone's admiration and some great times were recorded - results are below. Congratulations to all on a great race.
The Ruth Gardziel Trio, Les Gillon and the Agents of Karma and ORBIT were our musical entertainment and delighted listeners from 3.30pm onwards, singing on in the early evening sunshine. Our evening entertainment as well as the PA system was coordinated and supported by Dave Nelson, Richard and Wainsgate Chapel. Our thanks to them for their professional and technical support.
A shout out to Mytholmroyd Scouts who ably helped us with marshalling of the road, access to the recreation ground, as well as providing some muscle with the marquees. Also a thanks to Luddenden village who loaned and kindly assisted us with the erection of the tea tent - no mean feat in itself!
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this event - baking cakes, organising, completing paperwork, advertising, erecting marquees, hanging bunting, fetching, carrying, serving and working on the day, as well as the weeks before and after. And not forgetting you all for turning up and being great sports!
Anniversary Photographs
Its 100 years since the Murgatroyd family gifted the recreation ground to the people of Midgley.
Midgley school children, staff and villagers gathered to create an historic drone photograph recently. Sport and recreation is still an important part of life. Big shout out to Craig G for the photography
Anniversary Photographs
It is also the 75th anniversary of Midgley Football Club - quite an achievement for any amateur club.
Midgley Well dressing & Walk - May 2025
Many thanks to all who decorated wells, organised the event and attended to view the glorious wells of Midgley. This year the theme was Sports and Past times and we had a lovely sunny day for a walk and refreshments were served in the community room during the morning.
Its great to see an ancient tradition and celebration of water being preserved and celebrated in our special village.
Midgley Pace Egg
Many thanks to all Pace Eggers and supporters - another great performance - See you next year!!
Memorial Bench installed
A wonderful addition to the Pinfold has recently been installed, in memory of Joan and Brian Boland. Many thanks to the Boland family, Jerome, Sam, Ian ( CROWS) and residents of Chapel Lane. A bench for everyone to enjoy. The wild flower beds will hopefully be blooming soon
Blooming Midgley
Gardening group have been busy planting up around the village. Lets make it a bloming marvellous springin the village. Any helpers out there who would like to contribute - contact Pat through the shop or come along to Gardening group - all welcome
Family History
Agnes Dransfield's family recently got in touch with the forum to try find out about their great grandmother. Big thanks to Peggy and Ruth for their efforts - the family now have much more information and a photograph of Agnes at a retirement party at Murgatroyd's. Agnes Dransfield nee Bostock was born in 1903 and was a worsted spinner at Murgatroyd's from 1953 to 1966, she lived at Pleasant View and Goitside over her years married to Willie Dransfield and she passed away in 1993. Anyone with more information about Agnes, please contact Becca Lane at beclane@sky.com
Social Evening Success
Midgley Social Evening is set to become a regular event - we had a relaxed, interesting and informative evening listening to two very accomplished speakers. Thanks to Jerome for his talk on Materials - Why things break? And also to Mick for his talk and discussion on re-wilding.
The Pinfold
Many thanks to Jerome for working on the pinfold. It looks amazing. Also a big shout out to the Gardening group, Sam Barker and Anne H for advice/help/plants & bark. Our pinfold ia quite rare, age unknown but it is thought that it dates to the 18th century. Pinfolds were where stray animals were impounded & owners paid a fine to get them back. Midgley's last pinder ( responsible for upkeep of pinfold & grazing animals on common land ) was John Scott who died in 1869
Midgley School
Upcoming community events at Midgley School
Watch this space....
See website for all things Midgley School - www.midgleyschool.org.uk
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