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abouts and climbing frames for children of all ages. There is also a watery play area with taps, dams and channels to play with as well as a cafe. It’s also home to The Jungle Experience, children will love looking at the giant butterflies, terrapins, fish and quails. £1 entrance fee. Under fives free. covered slide and climbing frame for the more adventurous. The equipment is designed to be inclusive for all, enabling children in wheelchairs to ride on the roundabout and play amongst their peers. There’s also a boating lake, cafe and Shibden Hall to explore. ■■Location: Godley Lane, Halifax. Pay and display parking charges apply at all Shibden Park car parks: 9am to 6 pm daily (except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day) 30 pence per hour, £1 all day. areas. One is a fenced in space designed for younger children and children with additional needs with swings, slides and roundabouts. Beyond this is a second play area designed for older children offering more adventurous play experiences in a woodland setting.
Picnic areas, visitor centre including shop, Elizabethan manor house, countryside centre, nature trail, 110 acres of Green Flag Award winning country park to explore, sculptures, Yorkshire in Bloom Gold Award winning gardens. HE stories of Huddersfield’s unmarried and pregnant ‘fallen women’ are to be uncovered in a summer-long project at the Lawrence Batley Theatre.
Led by Hannah Greaves, an MA researcher at the University of Huddersfield and a young mother herself, the aim of In The Family Way is to create an interactive exhibition, bringing to life the experiences of the ‘wayward girls’ who lived in the LBT when it was the Huddersfield Methodist Mission.
Hannah would like to hear from any young volunteers, aged between 16 and 25, who are interested in helping with the research.
She says the project will uncover hidden histories of the women and explained: “I had a baby at 18.
I was pregnant and alone, supported by the goodwill of friends and family, but I have been In the Family Way - a new project at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield (pictured) will look at the hidden stories of unmarried girls who lived in the building when it was a Methodist mission fascinated by the question: what would life have been like for me 100 years ago?”
The Queen Street methodist chapel opened in July 1819 and became a mission in 1906, providing a women’s home for young, single mothers-to-be.
It moved out in 1970 and the building reopened as a theatre 24 years later.
A grant of £14,000 has been awarded to the LBT by the National Lottery for the project, which will take place during August.
Researchers will work in partnership with Heritage Quay at the university and the charity Auntie Pam’s, which offers help and support to mothers and families.