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Sunday July 2nd.
Blackstone Edge commemorative walk.
Speech by Dr Mike Sanders.



Friday July 14th
Rushton Remembered: combined schools
performance at the Ridings school and
Square Chapel, by Lee Mount, Deanfield,
Moorside and Parkinson Lane School
.




Friday July 14th
“Ben Rushton, Handloom Weaver & Chartist.”
A lecture by John A. Hargreaves at Halifax
Central Library, and now available as a
booklet. Price £4.50. Obtainable by post
through Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery, or
through your bookshop.

Available in Calderdale from Tourist
Information Centres and Wades Bookshop,
Rawson St, Halifax.





Saturday July 15th
Town centre parade, see headline pictures,
and presentation of Charter 06- compiled by
6th-formers at the Ridings School with
members of the Youth Parliament- to Mps
Linda Riordan and Chris McCafferty. From
Woolshops, through Piece Hall, to Square
Chapel. Halifax.

Saturday July 15th
Roy Bailey, Pete Coe, Chris Coe, and the
Yorkshire Chartist Choir in concert, with
readings from the writing of Ernest Jones.


Sunday July 16th
Ben Rushton memorial ceremony at Lister
Lane Cemetery.





Sunday July 16th
A guided walk led by Linda Croft to scenes of
Halifax’s Chartist history, visiting Skircoat
Green, Salterhebble & Skircoat Moor, &
finishing at the Standard of Freedom public
House.










July 16th-31st
Exhibition at the Piece Hall Gallery: Project
work, banners, displays of information
about Rushton’s lifetime, the geography of
Chartist Calderdale and Ovenden township,
and the West Yorkshire Archive services
display of related archive material.

A weekend of events organised by Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery

and the festival committee, funded by Local Heritage Initiative.