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Snapshots of Ilkley: Youthful Visions & Historic Reflections

11 Jul 2025

14:00 - 16:00

Ilkley Manor House

photoILKLEY – is a grassroots photography festival, celebrating photography’s unique power to connect, to question, and to see the world anew.

Committed to making space for younger voices too, a key part of the festival is the Young Photographer Competition, inviting children and young people to share their own visions of Ilkley and the world, offering a vital platform for emerging talents and fresh perspectives.

The winning images from the competition form the basis of this exhibition. The Great Flood exhibition Suddenly, in the middle of a hot summer’s day, there was a violent thunderstorm over IlkleyMoor. It lasted several hours, turning the streets of the town into tributaries of the RiverWharfe. The exhibition describes the resulting devastation. The Wharfedale Airedale Observer from 20 July 1900 carried an extensive report much of which is used in the exhibition together with photographs from the time. The Exhibition is provided by Ilkley Civic Society’s Local History Hub.

Both exhibitions are FREE to enter.

There plenty of off street parking as well as parking in the main car park which is a couple of minutes walk from the House. There is no parking at the Manor House. The main train station is a 5 minute walk from House. There is no lift to the upstairs floors at the House.

http://www.ilkleymanorhouse.org

Ticket Information

General Free

Venue Details

Ilkley Manor House

Ilkley Manor House, Castle Yard
LS29 9DT

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