Mayor of Keighley Civic Service

Sunday 31st July 2011

My daughter Emily and I attended the civic service of the Mayor of Keighley Town Council  today. it was a fabulous afternoon where we met Keighley Mayor Michael Westerman, Mayoress and other Councillors of Keighley Town Council. Mayors and consorts of neighbouring parishes were also present together. The ceremony was also honoured by the presence of the Lord Mayor of Bradford Metrolpolitan District Council, Cllr Naveeda Ikram and consort daughter Alisha Salam  .

Neighbouring parishes also attending included Stenton, Normanton - Cllr Denton Jones and South Kirkby and Moorthorpe - Cllr Patricia Evans.

We paraded from the the Town Hall down the main road to the Keighley Shared Church. During the service we enjoyed readings and an excellent sermon. We had fantastic hymns including; Guide me o thou great redeemer and Jerusalem. The event concluded with refreshments giving time to mingle with the other civic dignitaries and guests.

Mayor of Keighley Cllr Michael Westerman, Consort Mrs Westerman, Emily and myself

The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Cllr Naveeda Ikram with her daughter Alisha Salam  , Emily and myself

Both Emily and myself had a wonderful afternoon in our neighbouring parish and would like to thank Mayor Michael Westerman, consort and all the Councillors in Keighley and of course the Lord mayor of Bradord, cllr Naveeda Ikram for a thoroughly enjoyable day.

Scott and Emily

31st July 2011

 

Little Valley Brewery

22nd July

Being a keen beer drinker I was extremely pleased to be invited to the  Little Valley Brewery, to help celebrate its new look and the launch of its eighth bottle conditioned ale – the Python IPA.


Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Calderdale, Coun Peter Wardhaugh and Mrs Jennifer Pearson were also at the brewery to open the event, which was attended by more than 100 representatives from the brewing industry and local businesses. During my speech, I spoke of how Little Valley had done wonders for Hebden Royd in attracting people to the area – with most of its beers named after local places and landmarks: Withens Pale Ale, Cragg Vale Bitter, Tod’s Blonde, Hebden’s Wheat, Stoodley Stout and Moor Ale. I congratulated them also on their recent 6th anniversary of being a major and successful business in our area.

Myself and Cllr Peter Wardhaugh and Mrs Jennifer Pearson

Picture kindly supplied by Sarah Mason, Zebra Photography

World renowned beer writer Roger Protz was guest speaker at the event and remarked on the high quality of ale being produced by the brewery. The Python IPA is to feature on Mr Protz’s blog, , as his ‘Beer of the Month’ for August.

I would like to express special thanks to Wim van der Spek and Sue Cooper, owners of Little Valley, and wish them every success for the new look.

Enjoying the fantastic new beer

Many supermarkets and local shops have this fantastic beer range on sale and I can highly recommend it.

Scott
22nd July 2011

Concentrix Ltd

Thursday 21st July

As new Mayor of Hebden Royd I think it is vitally important to understand the activities of businesses in our area. The reason for this is two fold;

1. In the capacity of Mayor I act as a representative to the area, therefore I believe I have a duty to promote our businesses as much as possible
2. I have considerable International business experience and I am happy to discuss any aspect of international trade with any of our businesses in Hebden Royd

I visited a leading software and support company called Concentrix on Dean Hey business park. Concenrtix, part of the Synnex group, recently aquired Aspire and now have plans to expand their employees from 60 to 80. This is a significant employer in our area

They also have many multi - lingual employees due to their international links

Operations Director, Jackie Ogden and myself

Scott

21st July 2011

Visit to Calrec Ltd, Hebden Bridge

Thursday 21st July

As new Mayor of Hebden Royd I think it is vitally important to understand the activities of businesses in our area. The reason for this is two fold;

1. In the capacity of Mayor I act as a representative to the area, therefore I believe I have a duty to promote our businesses as much as possible
2. I have considerable International business experience and I am happy to discuss any aspect of international trade with any of our businesses in Hebden Royd

Calderdale Council leader, Janette Battye, also attended with me to Calrec and we were met by the Managing Director Roger Henderson. We received an extremely interesting tour of the premises at Nutclough Mill, Hebden Bridge

Calrec has manufactured high quality audio products to the broadcast marketplace since 1964. They are also world leaders in this field
Throughout its history the company has focused specifically on the needs of its customers, working closely with them to develop solutions to their problems.

Nutclough Mill - home to Calrec

Both Janet and myself thoroughly enjoyed the visit and to understand that they employ around 200 people which will make it the largest employer in our area. They are also the preferred choice of many global television broadcaster's who respect their quality products.

MD Roger Henderson, Cllr Janet Battye and myself

Scott

31st July 2011



Hebden Royd School's Kenneth Kaberry Awards

Over the weeks before the Summer holidays I held assemblies at all the schools in our area.

At all the Primary schools in Hebden Royd  I had meetings with each Head to discuss my Mayoral theme of encouraging international links, particularly with our twin towns. I have lists of potential partner schools in our twin town and links will be suggested at the start of the new school year.

Kenneth Kaberry Awards

Kenneth Kaberry was the Council Clerk from 1936 to 1986, years, a massive 50 years service to our Community !!

To mark this special event, on his retirement, the council decided to mark the long service in a special way... Kenneth Kaberry enjoyed books immensely and it was decided in a council meeting on his retirement in 1986 that each school in the area would receive an award allowance, preferably to be allocated towards books for the school library.

This year I have continued the tradition to each school in the area, I have held the assembly at each school and explained to the children the role of the council and presented the school with their cheque awards.

We also explained the importance of schools councils and the importance of democracy.

Primary schools visited in Hebden Royd were:

Burnley Road Primary School
Central Street Infant and Nursery School
Cragg Vale Junior and Infant School
Hebden Royd C.E (VA) Primary School
Riverside Junior School
Scout Road Primary School
Stubbings Infant School

During each visit, I nominated a 'Mayoress' from the school children to help with the assembly to help me. together we would present the cheque to the school. It was a fun event for the children.

Scott and school 'Mayoress' from Scout Road School

Scott

21st July 2011

Transition Town Local Economy Showcase Event

Saturday 16th July 2011

I was proud to open the Transition Town Local Economy Showcase today

This is a celebration of what makes Hebden Bridge so special, there is a wealth of people in our community that put enormous amounts of energy and perseverance into the well being of our town.

This energy behind the LOCAL ECONOMY SHOWCASE, which has been organised by the Transition Town Local Economy Showcase.  It was a super event and special thanks to Dongria Khond for her extremely hard work in pulling this event together.  

opening the event together with Dongria

photo kind permission Craig Shaw

There were many amazing projects. The Transition Town focus is to help Hebden Bridge to address the twin challenges in our world of climate change and rising energy prizes.

This is achieved by getting the most from the resources within our area and this is the main focus of events like this.

Some of the projects included

CALDER FOOD HUB'S EDIBLE GARDEN TRAIL . 

An Open Gardens event giving you the chance to see innovative ways of growing food in small spaces throughout the Calder Valley
HEBVEG  Community Supported Agriculture scheme. 

THE DRUM MACHINE.  

Played an avalanche of drums during the opening which had the roof lifting off, truly incredible followed by taster workshops people to join in. 

Trades Club showed various Films on food.  Thought-provoking short films about food and  farming 

There were also various presentions during the afternoon at Riverside School including:

-Totally-Locally.  How you can support your local economy.

-Treesponsibility: and the launch of THE SOURCE project -

-Blackshaw Head Environmental Action Team

-Blackbark woodland management

The Woodcraft Folk

Energy Royd

Calderdale Wood Station

The Ground Floor Project

DOT-COM munications

ATC –   Green Transport

            Community Energy

Hebden Bridge Partnership

PlacemakerAssociates

Calder Valley Steiner Education

It was a well attended event and a showcase for the town, congratualtions to the organisers and  sponsors, Little Valley Brewery, Calderdale Council and Hebden Royd Town Council.

Scott

16th July 2011

 

Coiners Barn at Bell House, Launch Event

Sunday 10th July

My son Marcus, daughter Natalie and I attended the the opening of the Coiners Barn at Bell House on Sunday. 

This property has significant historical interest in Cragg Vale, dating back to the 13th Century. It was the notorious home to one of the coiners (David Hartley - who was hung in York and buried in Heptonstall )

Liz and Nathan Smith have done a fantastic job in a full redevelopment of the historic barn and we were very pleased to receive an invite to the launch.

It has been renovated in to a walkers luxury retreat / accommodation  and also acts as a  museum to the history of the building.

This building is of significant historic interest to our area. This redevelopment will help draw even more visitor interest to our area of Hebden Royd with it's fantastic diverse historic past. The coiners in Cragg Vale certainly played  a big part of our history and this building, being the home of the ring leader and one of the oldest and remotest in Cragg Vale. This superbly redeveloped site of historic interest will ensure future visitors a direct link to our extremely interesting past.

Liz, Nathan and Molly with Natalie, Marcus and myself

Scott

11th July 2011

Mossley Songs of Praise

Sunday 3rd July 2010

Amy, the children and I attended, on behalf of Hebden Royd, the civic service of Mayor Cllr Anthony Milne and consort Cllr Marie Milne of Mossley Parish council. The event was  a wonderful afternoon at Mossley Football club.

The weather and Pennine hills setting was fantastic with wonderful hymns, beautifully played by the Mossley Brass Band.

Also in attendance were Mayors and consorts from  Parishes of Ripponden, Saddleworth and Holme Valley.

Inspiring Hymns such as O Lord my God and Jerusalem were sung at the football ground. A wonderful solo piece, Requiem,  by Iona Fisher added to the excellent music.

Mossley Brass Band with Pennine Backdrop

Mayors and Consorts, Amy and I far right

Solo by Iona Fisher

Scott, Amy and family

3rd July 2011

Hebden Bridge and District Old People's Welfare Committee

Saturday 2nd July 2011

Amy, the children and I attended this year's Strawberry tea afternoon for the senior citizen's of Hebden Royd and surrounding parishes. This was organised by Hebden Bridge and District Old Peoples Welfare Committee.

I made a speech and talked about the how the older people in our area have contributed significantly to the fantastic area in which we live and now events like this act as a tremendous thank you for their positive contributions over the years.

Special Thanks to Mavis Ring, Rob Ward, the entire committee and extra volunteers who had clearly gone to great efforts to ensure a wonderful selection of sandwiches, cakes and strawberries and cream for all to enjoy.

We also enjoyed a super film put together by Nick Wilding from the Literary and Scientific Society. Nick is the current video librarian. The collection of films screened during Saturday's show  were made originally by the Cine section of the society between 1946 and 1957, mostly under the direction of Ken Crabtree. Nick used these archive films in and amongst the films he made here in the Calder Valley during the last decade. The unique edit from Nick on Saturday was a tribute to the people, who made the films and particularly the director, Ken Crabtree.

This fantastic collage of film clips films of our area in the past 60 years. It showed images of harsh winter in 1947, chimney's being demolished and life of local farmers  and town folk of bygone years. It was an extremely interesting delve into our fabulous past. It was also great fun and fascinating gaining insight from all the senior citizen's who attended the tea.

Please see below some of the group  that attended, left of me in the picture our eldest visitor Phyllis Walstow,97.

There were over 60 visitors from Blackshaw Head, Cragg Vale, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, Mytholm and Mytholmroyd. Also attending were Chair of Blackshaw Head - Dorothy Sutcliffe, Chair and Consort of Erringden - Fiona and Charlotte Gibbon and Chair and Consort of Wadsworth - John and Hazel Lynch.

Enjoying the Tea

Some of the visitors, including left of me Phyllis Walstow

Scott, Amy, Marcus, Emily and Natalie