A Brief History of Rushbearing (with particular reference to Rushbearing in Calderdale)
By Garry Stringfellow
57pp • Price includes postage
ISBN 978 0 948635 05 2
Garry Stringfellow is one of the team who revived the Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing Festival for Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. It has taken place on the first weekend of September continuously since then (save for lockdowns) and attracts considerable crowds to the local settlements that the rushcart visits. The author looks at Sowerby Bridge in the context of the history of rushbearing in other parts of N England.
