Hebden Bridge Vintage Cars Weekend 2nd & 3rd August 2008

The Hebden Bridge Vintage Cars Weekend
Calder Holmes Park, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

A Fun Day Out For All The Family
A Weekend Rally for Veteran, Vintage & Classic Cars, Motorcycles and Commercial vehicles.

The Hebden Bridge Vintage Weekend has been a popular rally for all motor enthusiasts and, in particular, owners of veteran, vintage and classic vehicles, for over 25 years. The Yorkshire Historic Car Club have developed a reputation for running an interesting and enjoyable event and now the Rotary Club of Hebden Bridge have joined with them to help make this year even better than previous years.

As an added bonus, on Sunday, visitors to Hebden Bridge can watch the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society’s famous ‘Trans Pennine Run’ pass through the town. Hebden Bridge is an ideal location to watch this magnificent collection of historic vehicles as they wind their way across the Pennines, en route from Manchester to Harrogate.

Located in the heart of Hebden Bridge, on Calder Holmes Park, the event attracts hundreds of vehicles, of a wide variety and age, as well as numerous stalls autojumblers and entertainers. The town centre, with its wealth of independent shops, cafes, restaurants and pubs is only a few minutes walk from the park. Hebden Bridge is worth a visit, if just to see what the British Airways in flight magazine described as ‘One of the most funky towns in the world’. Refreshments and toilet facilities will be available on site.

Throughout the weekend there will be a wide variety of stalls and entertainment on the park including rides and other entertainment for children, live music and catering facilities. The park also has a pitch and put golf course, a bowling green and a children’s play area.

There are a number of competition classes, catering for a wide variety of vehicles, as follows:
Saturday - Cars 1966 to 1986, Rolls Royce & Bentley of any age,Motorcycles 1966 to 1986
Sunday - Vintage Cars up to 1930, Post Vintage Cars 1931 to 1939,
Post War Cars 1940 to 1965,Motorcycles up to 1965, Commercial Vehicles up to 1965 and Stationary engines.

For anyone not familiar with Hebden Bridge it is located on the Yorkshire side of the Pennines on the A646, approximately 8 miles west of Halifax and lives up to its enviable reputation as ‘The Town for Great Little Shops’. An ever-growing number of tourists are drawn to Hebden Bridge to sample everything from organic cafés with a
Bohemian atmosphere to old-fashioned local pubs with real ale. Delis, gift shops, local bakers, butchers, exotic foods, Hebden Bridge has it all, with over 150, mainly independent, shops as well as the numerous cafes, bars, restaurants and pubs, it lives up to its cool, liberal, artistic and creative credentials. But it’s not just the shopping, the eating and the drinking the tourists come for; the area has a fascinating literary history. The American poet, Sylvia Plath is buried in the nearby village of Heptonstall and the poet laureate, Ted Hughes was born a couple of miles away in Mytholmroyd, whilst over the hill, in Haworth, the Bronte sisters wrote their famous novels. Visitors to the town can take a relaxing boat ride along the Rochdale Canal or opt for something a little more energetic and take a walk through the beautiful National Trust owned wooded valley of Hardcastle Craggs. Deep in the Craggs the long disused Gibson Mill has now been brought back into use as a facility for visitors and for the local community. This groundbreaking project has renovated the Mill as a model of sustainable development, being run with minimum impact on its environment.

The rally organisers, the Rotary Club of Hebden Bridge, are part of a worldwide group, dedicated to helping those in need and working towards world understanding and peace. Any profits made from organising the rally will be used by the club to further these aims, by supporting projects in the UK and worldwide.

Directions and Timetable
If you have not attended our rally before, Hebden Bridge is situated on the A646 approximately 8miles west of Halifax. Access to the rally venue is via Station Road and will be well sign posted from the main road.
The gates will be open at 10.am on both days and vehicles will arrive on site between the opening time and 1.00 pm.

The timetable for the weekend is as follows:
Gates Open to entrants and public 10.00 am
All pre booked entrants to be on the park, and Main Rally starts 1.00 pm
Latest time for return of judging forms 3.00 pm
East & west bound convoys to leave the park (optional) from 4.30 pm
Rally closed 5.00 pm

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Event organised by the Rotary Club of Hebden Bridge