Our Year - Wakefield District 2024: 10 top things to do across Wakefield this February
By Leanne Clarke
Published 27th Jan 2024, 09:00 BST
As Our Year – Wakefield District 2024 continues its programme of 366 things to do in the Wakefield district, there’s lots going on throughout February.
Our Year is a year-long programme of spectacles, unique festivals, major events and community-led activities that will celebrate all that the Wakefield district has to offer from art, heritage, sport and music to food and drink.
And in February, there’s something for everyone, whether it’s visiting the popular Rhubarb Festival, a bike ride at Nostell or learning all about food through time in Pontefract.
When: February 14 at 10.30am. Meet the Gelder sisters – Victorian businesswomen who owned a grocers and drapers in Pontefract. Learn about what food they sold over 100 years ago. Compare it to the food in our shops today. Make your own mini 3D shop display – complete with tiny fruit and veg! Photo: Wakefield Council
When: February 15 at 7:30pm. President of Wakefield Civic Society Kevin Trickett MBE looks back through the Society’s archives and reflects on how the Society – and Wakefield – have changed over the last 60 years. The talk taking place at Wakefield Town Hall is free and open to all. Photo: s