Museum offers medical history (From Advertiser Series)

Museum offers medical history

12:15pm Monday 29th June 2009

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This weekend you can see a great collection of vintage ambulances at the Thackray Museum in Leeds. Scare your friends with some gruesome face painting using special effects from film and TV, join in the trails around the museum, meet Florence Nightingale and make a Victorian toy. Adding colour and character will be the East Yorkshire Regiment Living History Group, using period uniforms, weapons and equipment to bring history to life. The whole event is free with usual admission charges and activities run from 10am to 4pm each day.

There’s some extra-special summer fun at RHS Garden Harlow Carr this weekend with the BBC’s One Show scientist, Dr Marty Jopson, demonstrating just what the sun does for us. There will also be donkey rides and giant outdoor games including snakes and ladder, jenga and chess. Try you hand at navigating the freshly-cut maze and plant a sunflower in a pot you have decorated.

The meeting hall in Moorlands Road, Drighlinton, plays host to a craft fair tomorrow with a range of local crafters selling handmade goods, including jewellery, cards, baby cakes and original artwork. Admission is free and the event runs from 10am to 3pm.

The last Sunday of the month means it’s time to head for Otley for the craft fair at The Courthouse and the farmers market. There’s a huge selection of high-quality crafts on sale – perfect for presents or just for yourself – in a friendly environment, as well as the chance to buy some scrumptious locally-grown food.

There’s an exclusive live broadcast of The Royal Opera performing La Traviata from the Royal Opera House in London on Tuesday on the big screen in Centenary Square. Take your own tables and chairs for a picnic for a fantastic evening of entertainment with family and friends. Admission is free and it starts at 7pm.

Babe The Sheep Pig is an enchanting story for all the family performed in the grounds of Bolton Priory, Bolton Abbey, next Friday. Gates will open at 5pm for picnics and facepainting, and tickets cost £10 for adults and £5 for children under 16.

Bramhope Primary School has an American Scarecrow Hunt and Summer fair next Saturday, starting at 10.30am. The scarecrow hunt around Bramhope village starts at 10.30am. The hunt starts and finishes at the school, where the fair begins at noon, which features a barbecue and routines by the BPS cheerleaders. Have a go on the marine-style assault course, pan for gold, or try your luck on the bucking bronco. Plus there’s a ’saloon bar’, toddler zone, bouncey castle, stalls and games. Access to the school is via Breary Rise or Tredgold Crescent, Leeds.

It’s the 22nd Cleckheaton Folk Festival, from next Friday until Sunday. It remains a small, friendly weekend festival, offering a host of attractions such as concerts, workshops, dance sides, singarounds, music sessions, ceilidh, craft fair, Saturday farmers market, Saturday morning parade, family fun day on Sunday plus many other events. Musical guests include The Battlefield Band, Eric Bogle, Ruth Notman Trio. Events take place in the town centre, town hall and venues throughout the town.

There’s a chance for gardeners to stock up on a wide range of plants including lots of unusual varieties at excellent prices from local and regional growers and nurseries at the Huddersfield plant sale next Saturday in New Street. The organisers’ advice is to come early to this popular event as stallholders tend to sell out early.

Go along and enjoy the fun at a summer gala at the Society for the Blind fair held in the garden of Whitfield Centre, Soothill Lane, Batley, from 10am to 3pm. There will be lots of stalls, a bouncey castle for the children, refreshments available and the chance to help raise money for a new mini-bus as well as raising awareness of visual impairment.

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