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Time Travel in Haworth...
US WWII jeep in Haworth
Visitors flock from all around to enjoy Haworths's annual 1940s weekend.
Thousands of people flock every year to Haworth for a 1940s weekend organised by the Haworth Traders Association. If you want to take a trip back in time, then this is the place!
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Although the majority of visitors to Haworth are in modern civvies, unwitting visitors to the village are always somewhat surprised to find GIs, Tommies.

"Let us go forward together" poster featuring Winston Churchill
Authentic wartime poster in a Haworth window

WAAFs, landgirls and ARP (Air Raid Prevention) wardens dance together in the streets to the strains of Glen Miller..

At recent 1940s weekends, events have included a vintage vehicle parade, an evening ball, flypasts by a Dakota and a German spotter plane, as well as street events.

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1940s weekend pictures!


civilian vehicle on show
'Army' men and wartime military car
Authentic 1940s vehicles are put on show
There's a real authentic feel of wartime Haworth during the weekend



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