Editing Haworth (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Main Street, Haworth, West Yorkshire.jpg|thumb|The top of Haworth Main Street]]
Haworth's traditional events were an annual service at Haworth [[Spa]] and the [[rushbearing]]. Spa Sunday died out in the early 20th century and the rushbearing ceremony has not been held for many years. A modern event organised by the Haworth Traders' Association is ''"Scroggling the Holly"'', which takes place in November.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bronte-country.com/haworth/scroggling-the-holly.html | title = Scroggling the Holly |website=bronte-country.com| access-date = 13 March 2017}}</ref> Bands and [[Morris dance|Morris men]] lead a procession of children in [[Victorian fashion|Victorian costume]] following the Holly Queen up the [[cobblestone]]s to a crowning ceremony on the church steps. She unlocks the church gates to invite the spirit of Christmas into Haworth. [[Father Christmas]] arrives bringing glad tidings.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Knights|first1=David|title=Haworth's 'scroggling the holly' is biggest for many years|url=http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/10861441.Haworth_s__scroggling_the_holly__is_biggest_for_many_years/|access-date=27 March 2018|work=Keighley News|date=6 December 2013}}</ref>

The first Haworth Arts Festival took place in 2000 and was repeated in 2001. It was revived in 2005 as a festival combining performing and visual arts and street performance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/events/haworth-events/more.asp?event=Haworth%20Arts%20Festival |title=Haworth Arts Festival |access-date=6 July 2012 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122064428/http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/events/haworth-events/more.asp?event=Haworth%20Arts%20Festival |archive-date=22 January 2013 }}</ref> The festival has community involvement and uses local professional and semi-professional musicians, artists and performers and a larger name to headline each year. It has provided a stage for [[John Cooper Clarke]] and [[John Shuttleworth (character)|John Shuttleworth]]. The festival has expanded across the Worth Valley outside Haworth and is held on the first weekend in September.

Haworth Band is one of the oldest secular musical organisations in the [[Keighley]] area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehaworthband.co.uk/history.htm |title=The Haworth Band – History |access-date=5 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310063608/http://www.thehaworthband.co.uk/history.htm |archive-date=10 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Historic records indicate that there was a brass band at nearby Ponden in 1854 with a body of excellent performers. It was founded by John Heaton, who lived at Ponden. The band played at a celebration in Haworth at the conclusion of the [[Crimean War]]. "Over the years the world of [[brass band]] music went from strength to strength, during which time the Haworth Band went with it."<ref>Internet Bandsman's Everything Within, "Archived Histories of Brass Bands", [http://www.ibew.org.uk/cach-hawo.htm Haworth Band]. Retrieved 17 February 2017.</ref>

Every year the village hosts a 1940s weekend where locals and visitors don [[Second World War|wartime]] attire for a host of nostalgic events.<ref>[http://www.haworth1940sweekend.co.uk/HOME.html Haworth 1940s Weekend] 2016, unknown 2016 date. Retrieved 17 February 2017.</ref>

From 1971 to 1988, 25 and 27 Main Street housed the [[Haworth Pottery]], where Anne Shaw produced hand-thrown domestic stoneware derived from the arts & crafts tradition. She exhibited widely in the UK and USA in public and private exhibitions and received an arts association award for her ceramic sculptures. Her husband, [[Robert Shaw (poet)|Robert Shaw]], depicted life (and prominent residents) in the village in the 1970s and 80s, in two collections of satires, ''The Wrath Valley Anthology'', 1981, and ''Grindley's Bairns'', 1988, praised by ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]''.