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  • Marsden Calendar Competition 2023 13 May – 30 June

    Marsden Calendar Competition Awaits Your Entries! Open to all Pictures that capture the spirit of Marsden and the Colne Valley Minimum image size 1MB Horizontal orientation Enter Online until 30 June

  • Robin Ince: Bibliomaniac

    Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? (or, ideally, 40: maximum capacity in Marsden Library!) We’re delighted to have Robin back again this year to talk about the book that came out of his 2021 tour, Bibliomaniac. Packed with witty anecdotes and tall tales, Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey […]

    £4 – £7
  • Yorkshire Day: Rugby and the Making of Yorkshire, with Tony Collins

    Marsden Mechanics, Upstairs Peel Street, Marsden

    Part of Marsden's Yorkshire Day Celebrations Only a stone's throw from the home of Rugby League, we're delighted to welcome Tony Collins to our Yorkshire Day Celebrations to explain how Yorkshire would be a shadow of itself without the assistance of the funny-shaped 'ball'. Tony is a historian and prize-winning author who has been consultant […]

    £3
  • Annual General Meeting of Friends of Marsden Library

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Marsden Library will be held in the Library at 6.45pm on Monday 15 th January 2024 Agenda 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 12 th December 2021 3. Matters arising 4. Trustees’ report 5. Statement of accounts 6. Appointment of […]

  • Calendar Competition Winners Exhibition

    Marsden Mechanics

    The winning entries in this year's Marsden Calendar Competition are on view in the foyer of the Mechanics from today. Congratulations to all the winners, and thank-you to everyone who entered and made the calendar so brilliant.

  • Made in Manchester: Talk by Brian Groom (bestselling author of ‘Northerners: a History’

    Marsden Mechanics

    Made in Manchester: The City that Shaped the Modern World  The astonishing history of how the people of Manchester and its surrounding region led the emergence of the industrial and commercial world as we know it, from the Romans to today, will be outlined in an illustrated talk by Brian Groom, author of the bestselling Northerners: […]

    £5
  • Friends of Marsden Library AGM

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Marsden Library will be held in the Library at 6.45 pm on Monday 18 November 2024. Agenda Apologies for absence Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 15th January 2024 Matters arising Trustees’ report Statement of accounts Appointment of trustees Any other business Further Details

  • FULLY BOOKED Florence Lockwood (1861 – 1937): the extraordinary life of a Colne Valley Suffragist

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    WOW: this event is now fully booked! Celebrate International Women's Day and World Book Night all in one go at Marsden Library! Date: Thursday 6th March Doors Open: 7pm Event: 7.30pm - 8.30pm Free:  please reserve your seat in advance by leaving your name at Marsden Library or online here.   Suffrage Banner by Florence E Lockwood, 1911, […]

  • FULLY BOOKED Laureate’s Library Tour – Marsden – Afternoon Performance

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    ‘I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.’ Each spring this decade, Simon Armitage will give readings across the UK, from the flagship libraries of the big cities to smaller libraries serving rural and remote communities. Using the alphabet as a […]