{"id":331,"date":"2020-06-08T21:10:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/?p=331"},"modified":"2024-03-16T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T13:16:56","slug":"to-begin-at-the-beginning-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/2020\/06\/08\/to-begin-at-the-beginning-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"TO BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING&#8230;.1978&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liz Minkin looks back to the beginning, the formation of KVCA and the first festival held in July 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting-755x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" width=\"390\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting-755x1024.jpg 755w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting-768x1041.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting-1133x1536.jpg 1133w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting-1511x2048.jpg 1511w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/First-KVCA-Meeting.jpg 1690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Notice of the first K.V.C.A Meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>St.Stephen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s School hall was full that night, and the Kirkstall Village Community  Association came into enthusiastic and energetic being. The initial spur had been Barrett\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s housebuilders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 proposal to build back to back houses on the Abbey Gorse site &#8211; the Victorian turreted yellow brick mansion had been blown up \u00e2\u20ac\u0153accidentally on purpose\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (as was popularly rumoured) and was derelict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first major issue the KVCA tackled was the proposed closure of St. Stephen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s School and in the end that was a good victory under our belt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The smaller battle for a crossing over Abbey Road took some time (second choice; first was putting the road underground) but we got it (though forty years later it would still be better to put the road underground!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1980\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s big issue was YEB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan to put huge pylons through Morris\/Kepstorn woods. We took them to public inquiry and won!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it was in the July 1980 issue of Kirkstall Matters that the words \u00e2\u20ac\u01531981 SUMMER EVENT\u00e2\u20ac\u009d first appeared, with the names Karen Hauxby and Elizabeth St.David-Smith!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the Winter edition:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Roll-up-Roll-up-677x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-333\" width=\"399\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Roll-up-Roll-up-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Roll-up-Roll-up-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Roll-up-Roll-up-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Roll-up-Roll-up-1015x1536.jpg 1015w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Roll-up-Roll-up-1353x2048.jpg 1353w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Roll-up-Roll-up.jpg 1525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And Spring 1981, a double page spread:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-1981-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-1981-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-1981-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-1981-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-1981-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-1981-1536x1100.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-1981-2048x1467.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/photos\/1981\/\">photos <\/a>show, it was a sunny day. Karen led the procession in her ringmaster outfit, Nicky Hydes was our Festival Queen and the full programme of events, from 11.30 to 5.30, went as planned, hooray, and to the relief of us all. The structure and format is still pretty much the same nearly 40 years later, so it was sound. What a great team from that<br> year to this. All the careful planning, the sharing comradeship of the committee, the exhaustion of the day are worth it every year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-Cover-1981-737x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335\" width=\"344\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-Cover-1981-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-Cover-1981-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-Cover-1981-768x1066.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-Cover-1981-1106x1536.jpg 1106w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-Cover-1981-1475x2048.jpg 1475w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Programme-Cover-1981.jpg 1639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Finances! &#8211; in thinking how on earth we were going to find the money for the Festival, Karen and I went to see the manager at Waddingtons, which was where the Morrison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car park is now. He responded brilliantly by printing all the Festival programmes for  nothing; all the local shops sold them in the weeks before the day , and at the gates on the day. That meant we not only had funds for 1981 but enough to start planning for 1982 as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N.B. Leeds Local History Library has a complete set of Kirkstall Matters and of Festival  It would be great if they could be digitised and made available for everyone to browse. Any volunteers??? \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6when this virus has bid us farewell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liz Minkin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-5 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-Geoff-Hodgson-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"767\" data-id=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-Geoff-Hodgson-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-Geoff-Hodgson-15.jpg 787w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-Geoff-Hodgson-15-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-Geoff-Hodgson-15-768x748.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Geoff Hodgson<br>Liz St David-Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-14-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-14-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-14-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-14-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-14.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"708\" data-id=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-13.jpg 940w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-13-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-6-13-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-5-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"947\" height=\"711\" data-id=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkstall.org.uk\/festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1981-5-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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