Wakefield Historical Society

16/06/2026

Our June Newsletter is hot off the press! Catch up with all our latest news, including info about forthcoming events, publications and of course buildings in Yorkshire (and elsewhere)!https://www.yvbsg.org.uk/newsheets/jun26.pdf

13/06/2026

Matthew Tomlinson Journals blog, new post: The Death of a Shoemaker, and the Coming of the Railway, June 1837. As always, Tomlinson sympathises and cares about his neighbours. He finds it hard to see the fields he has ploughed all his life taken to put through the railway.

12/06/2026

Good to know that it is being recorded for the future! The Historic Environment record is an amazing repository, so useful if you are researching a building.

07/06/2026

Matthew Tomlinson Journals blog, new post: Tomlinson bemoans the fact that he is unable to bury his father in the same place as his mother and has to use the 'new' church (St John's)

St John’s Church Wakefield 1807 Suny June 7th – I am frequently gloomy, and sad; because filial affection, and regard still lives in my bosom; I do not mourn because his end was either …

06/06/2026

05/06/2026

Next weekend we have a open weekend with a Ceramic and crafts fair. Where you can have a play with clay.. make your own Chantry gargoyle, grotesques or monsters of your own design. The start of the summer opening season at Chantry Chapel Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June. Come along have a good day out take a look around the historical Chantry Chapel on the Bridge. Parking on the bridge, free to enter.

04/06/2026

04/06/2026

Good to hear these will be put on display at Leeds Discovery Centre - an exciting find!

03/06/2026

Looking forward to seeing it after restoration. Good it is being put back to use.