While some of our events are reserved for members only, others are available to all. You can find out what’s on offer from talks to guided walks and tours via our Eventbrite page here. Many of our events are offered free of charge and some are offered both as ‘in person’ and live-stream events.
Here’s our event list so far for Autumn 2025:
Architectural Photography Competition and Exhibition – 12th to 21st September, Wakefield Exchange (WX), Union Street, Wakefield, WF1 3AD.
Entries for our Architectural Photography Competition will be exhibited at WX, Union Street, Wakefield for Heritage Open Days 2025. Commencing on Friday, 12th September, the exhibition, a rolling digital display, will run until Sunday, 21st September, and will be open to view during the opening hours of WX. You can find out more about WX and check the opening times here.
Running alongside the display of Competition entries, there will be a second display of photographs of Wakefield’s architecture taken by Kevin Trickett MBE over the 23 years that he has been President of the Society.
Architectural Photography Competition Prize Night – From 6pm, Thursday, 18th September, Wakefield Exchange (WX), Union Street, Wakefield, WF1 3AD.
Join us at WX for the announcement of the winners and runners-up in our Architectural Photography Competition on Thursday evening, 18th September. With guest speakers and introduced by the Society’s President, Kevin Trickett MBE, this will be an opportunity to find out how the competition judges scored the entries and to hear something of the importance of taking photographs of buildings as a way of recording the history of the city.
Doors open from 6pm; presentation of prizes begins at 7pm.
To book places, please visit our Eventbrite page here. You don’t need to be a member of the Society to attend (- and you don’t need to have submitted entries to the competition to enjoy the evening!)
Heritage Open Days 2025 – Various Dates and Locations, Friday, 12th September to Sunday, 21st September.
As part of our contribution to national Heritage Open Days, we have organised a number of free talks and tours. For full details and booking arrangements, visit our Eventbrite page here.
And if you want to see what others are doing during Heritage Open Hours, both here in Wakefield and further afield, have a look at the national Heritage Open Days website here.
Celebrating Wakefield’s Railway Heritage and Blue Plaque Unveiling, from 6pm, Thursday, 2nd October, Wakefield Exchange (WX), Union Street, Wakefield, WF1 3AD.
Join us as we celebrate Wakefield’s contribution to the nation’s railway heritage. We’ll be unveiling a new blue plaque to a Wakefield-born locomotive maker and there will be a number of stalls and exhibitions. This event is part of a national programme of events and activities marking the bicenternary of the modern railway, commemorating the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 27th September, 1825.
Doors open from 6pm with presentations starting at 7pm.
Further details on our dedicated page here. Book your free tickets on our Eventbrite page here.
Catch up on talks you may have missed!
With the advent of lockdown in March 2020, the Society moved many of its events on-line. Most of the webinars we have organised since March 2020 have been recorded and are available to watch on our Vimeo page. To see these and some other short films that we and our partners have produced, visit our Vimeo page here: Wakefield Civic Society (vimeo.com)
(Some of our talks have been recorded but are only available to view by members of the Society and members are sent details of how to access these recordings. If you are a member and have lost the details of how to access the recordings, please get in touch.)